Tag: highpoint
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RI-Jerimoth Hill
Summit Date March 4th, 2011; around 4:45 pm Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I was doing some work in Hartford, CT, and decided I wanted to see a little bit of the surrounding area. As I hadn’t done any of the highpoint in the area, I figured I’d give it a whirl and…
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TX-Guadalupe Peak
Summit Date August 15th, 2010 Party Tom Triplett, Mark Woolley, and Ryan Cragun Trip Report We didn’t hike a state highpoint in 2009 as traveling to one from where we were all living was a bit too far. But due a recent move for Mark (to Arizona), driving to Texas to hike Guadalupe Peak made…
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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…