Tag: highpoint
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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…
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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…