Category: state highpoints
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VA-Mt. Rogers
Summit Date September 2, 2002, around 2:30 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun, Danny Stanley, Christy Stanley Trip Report Our wonderful friends, Danny & Christy Stanley, invited us to southwestern Virginia to spend Labor Day weekend with Danny’s parents, Sharon and Frank Stanley in Draper, VA. As part of the weekend that the Stanley’s had…
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WI-Timms Hill
Summit Date August 11, 2002 around 12:00 noon Party Ryan Cragun and Debi Cragun Trip Report This was a very pretty highpoint. We spent the night in L’Anse Michigan after having done Mt. Arvon and Eagle Mountain the previous day. It took us between two and three hours to drive to Timm’s Hill from where…
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MN-Eagle Mountain
Summit Date August 10, 2002 around 10:00 am Party Ryan Cragun and Debi Cragun Trip Report We spent all of August 9th driving from Bismarck, ND to our campsite near Lutsen, MN on the North Shore of Lake Superior. We had hoped to get a little closer to the trailhead, but the campsite we finally…
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MI-Mount Arvon
Summit Date August 10, 2002 Party Ryan Cragun and Debi Cragun Trip Report We had climbed Eagle Mountain in Minnesota that morning and knew we were cutting it close to try to fit this one in on the same day. When we arrived in L’Anse, it was still pretty light and we knew we had…
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SD-Black Elk Peak (formerly Harney Peak)
Summit Date August 8, 2002, around 8:00 am Party Ryan Cragun and Debi Cragun Trip Report “This was the most beautiful highpoint I have seen.” -Debi Cragun. This was Debi’s first highpoint. We left Utah on August 7th at around 6:00 am. We had originally hoped to leave earlier so we could do Black Elk…
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ND-White Butte
Summit Date August 8, 2002 around 5:45 pm Party Ryan Cragun and Debi Cragun Trip Report We had climbed Harney Peak, South Dakota earlier in the day and also visited Mt. Rushmore. We took a couple of wrong turns on our way north and had lost about 30 minutes of time in so doing. Not…
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NV-Boundary Peak
Summit Date August 4, 2002, around 12:00 noon Party Ryan Cragun, Tom Triplett, Mark Woolley Trip Report As I experience more highpoints, I am realizing (though it may seem quite obvious) that the summits that require more exertion also receive much longer trip reports. So is the case with Boundary Peak. I climbed this peak…
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GA-Brasstown Bald
Summit Date July 27, 2002, around 11:00 am Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report It was about 3 hours and 15 minutes from summit to summit coming from Clingman’s Dome in TN. I had never been to GA and didn’t know how green it is. I was amazed at the foliage growing on the sides of…
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TN-Clingman’s Dome
Summit Date July 27, 2002, around 7:45 am Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report Beautiful! The hike to this summit and the summit itself were the most beautiful I have been to yet. The valleys just below King’s Peak in Utah were gorgeous, but this peak and the hike to it were amazing. I left my…
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SC-Sassafrass Mountain
Summit Date July 27, 2002, around 3:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report This summit was in the middle of nowhere. The closest thing to it was Rocky Bottom, a camp for the blind. Other than that, not much for miles. It also isn’t much of a draw for tourists. I saw one car from…