Category: hiking
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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…
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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…