Category: state highpoints
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NC-Mount Mitchell
Summit Date July 27, 2002, around 5:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report Can you say busy? Touristy? Wow! I haven’t seen this many people near a state high point yet. There must have been anywhere from 300 to 700 people spread out from the parking area to the tower on the summit. I had…
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MO-Taum Sauk
Summit Date July 18, 2002, around 12:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report This was an interesting summit. This was my 2nd day on my way home from UT. I had been to Nebraska’s and Kansas’ highpoints the previous day. The directions I had were very good; I drove directly to the summit. On the…
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KS-Mount Sunflower
Summit Date July 17, 2002, around 5:30 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I made it to this highpoint after Nebraska’s Panorama Point. My map program had given me a couple of routes to get there, but I ended up taking another one altogether. That route is illustrated below. Unlike Nebraska’s high point, this highpoint…
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NE-Panorama Point
Summit Date July 17, 2002, around 12:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report This highpoint will forever be infamous to me. On my way to UT, July 12, 2002, I was hoping to reach Panorama Point. I had already been to Hawkeye Point and Charles Mound that day and was hoping to make this my…
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IA-Hawkeye Point
Summit Date July 12, 2002, around 1:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report This was my second high point of the day. I had reached Charles Mound, Illinois early that morning and made it to Hawkeye Point at around 1:30 or so. As you can see on the map, there is a marker showing the…
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IL-Charles Mound
Summit Date July 12, 2002 – Around 6:00 am Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I had already been to two state high points on July 11, 2001, Ohio and Indiana, and was hoping to make Illinois my third. I got a later start than I would have liked from Cincinnati. If I had left home…
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IN-Hoosier Hill
Summit Date July 11, 2002, around 3:30 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I was coming from Ohio’s Campbell Hill. I took US 36 from Ohio to Indiana. The route wasn’t very fast. It may actually be faster to take I-70, even though you would have to travel quite a bit further. The directions I…
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OH-Campbell Hill
Summit Date July 11, 2002, around 1:30 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report This was my second high point (King’s Peak in Utah was my first). I had to finish a TA assignment at the University of Cincinnati on the morning of the 11th so I didn’t leave Cincinnati until 11:00 am. I arrived at…
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UT-King’s Peak
Summit Date June, 2001 Party Tom Triplett, Mark Woolley, Ryan Cragun Trip Report Now this was an adventure. First, we used the information and directions on www.americasroof.com to find the route to the trailhead and the route for the hike. Based on the information we found on the site we were under the understanding that…