Archive for the ‘hiking’ Category

Pfeifferhorn

Summit Date: August 1st, around 10:30
Party: Ryan Cragun, Mark Woolley, Tom Triplett

While in Utah I did my annual hike with my two hiking buddies, Tom and Mark.  Having hiked all the highpoints within about a day’s drive of Salt Lake City, we decided to do something local this year.  Of course, it’s not like a [...]

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highpointing page update

I’m buried with the start of school, but I did finally find a few minutes to put the finishing touches on a new flash-based interactive map to detail my highpointing adventures. You can see and interact with the new map here.  If you find any problems, typos, etc., let me know.  If you think it’s [...]

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NM-Wheeler Peak

Summit Date
August 2nd, 2008; around 12:00 pm
Party
Ryan Cragun, Mark Woolley, Tom Triplett
Trip Report
We chose New Mexico this year as we were unable to get a permit to hike Mt. Whitney in California. We left Salt Lake on August 1st, headed for Taos Ski Valley. We planned on camping in one of the campgrounds [...]

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AZ-Humphrey’s Peak

Summit Date
August 12, 2007, around 11:00 am
Party
Ryan Cragun and Mark Woolley
Trip Report
Mark and I woke up around 5:45 to get ready for the hike. Tom, well, Tom had been up all night anyway with the runs and vomiting and was semi-awake when we got up. For those who don’t know the intimate details [...]

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ID-Borah Peak

Summit Date
August 27, 2006, around 1:00 pm
Party
Ryan Cragun, Tom Triplett, Mark Woolley
Trip Report
The trip began on Saturday, the 26th. My wife, Debi, dropped me off at Mark’s in-laws’ where I was meeting up with Tom and Mark to go on our annual hike. We hung out waiting for Tom for a little bit then [...]

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