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LA-Driskill Mountain
Summit Date July 18th, 2003 around 6:30 am Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I had visited Mississippi’s highpoint on July 17th, 2003 and had planned on camping in Vicksburg, Mississippi that night. Though my small tent is waterproof, the campground where I had originally planned on staying was fairly waterlogged and from what I could…
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AR-Mount Magazine
Summit Date July 18th, 2003 around 3:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I visited Louisiana’s highpoint early this morning and drove straight from there to Mount Magazine. The area surrounding the highpoint is actually very beautiful. Also, it appears that quite a bit of time and money has been invested in the Mount Magazine…
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MS-Woodall Mountain
Summit Date July 17, 2003 around 2:30 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I left Cincinnati just after 7:00 am this morning. My only real stop was in Brentwood, TN where I stopped at REI to pick up some supplies. Other than that stop I drove directly to the highpoint. I did actually have a…
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KY-Black Mountain
Summit Date May 25, 2003, around 1:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun Trip Report Debi and I needed a break from school and all of the things that tend to take over your life when you’re at home. When Memorial Day came around and we had a three-day weekend we decided it would be…
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HI-Mauna Kea
Summit Date March 22, 2003; around 5:00 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun, Scott Morgan, Steve Morgan, Brent Robbins, & Rosemary Morgan Honorable Mention : Suzy Robbins & Gary Morgan Trip Report As is probably the case for most highpointers, I had no idea when I was actually going to be able to visit Hawaii…
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WV-Spruce Knob
Summit Date September 7, 2002, around 11:00 am Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun Trip Report Spruce Knob was the first of three highpoints that we planned to visit this day. Debi and I left Cincinnati at 3:45 am and arrived at the parking area around 11:00 or so. There were a few other cars in…
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PA-Mount Davis
Summit Date September 7, 2002, around 3:30 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun Trip Report This was our third and last highpoint of the day. We left Cincinnati at 3:45 am and had visited two other highpoints already, Spruce Knob, WV and Backbone Mountain, MD. We ended up getting back to Cincinnati at around 11:00…
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MD-Backbone Mountain
Summit Date September 7, 2002, around 1:30 pm Party Ryan Cragun, Debi Cragun Trip Report This was our second highpoint of the day. We left Cincinnati at 3:45 am and visited Spruce Knob, WV just earlier. We planned on visiting Pennsylvania’s Mount Davis after this one. The trailhead (which is the beginning of an old…
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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…