Category: hiking
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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…
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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…
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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…
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FL-Britton Hill
Summit Date December 21st, 2003; around 9:30 am Party Ryan & Debi Cragun Trip Report We had driven over 700 miles the day before, visited Alabama’s highpoint, and spent the night in Elba, AL at Olde South Inn bed & breakfast. The owner was great and the accommodations were very nice. We were on our…
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AL-Cheaha Mountain
Summit Date December 20th, 2003; around 12:00 pm Party Ryan & Debi Cragun Trip Report We left Cincinnati at 4:00 am and were on our way to Orlando for a week vacation. We re-directed our route in order to stop by the last two state highpoints I had not visited in the South – Alabama…
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CO-Mount Elbert
Summit Date July 22, 2003, around 9:30 am Party Ryan Cragun, Tom Triplett, Mark Woolley Trip Report This is the fourth hike that Tom, Mark, and I did together; but only the third state highpoint. We decided on hiking Mt. Elbert because I was driving in from Ohio and this would prevent me from having to…
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OK-Black Mesa
Summit Date July 19th 2003, around 3:15 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I drove in from Oklahoma City, arriving at the trailhead at around 1:00 pm mountain time. I hadn’t originally known whether or not I was going to do this hike on the 19th or the 20th, knowing that it was supposed to…
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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…