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Highpointing and Peak-Bagging Intro

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Highpointing and Peak-Bagging Intro

This Page Needs More Prominence! Highpointing & Peakbagging Don't tell anyone, but this is perhaps my favorite pursuit. Moreso than museums. If I had the time, I’d devote a lot of time to these lists. As life would have it, what with two little kids and a job and all that, these are pretty much life-long … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Non-CT, Peakbagging Tagged With: 52WAV, ADK46'ers, Cat35'ers, CT county highpoints, Geographic Extremes, NE111, NE67, NEFF, NEHH, NH48, state highpoints, T25

State Highpointing Intro

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State Highpointing Intro

I started documenting our highpointing trips back in early 2002 after we summitted our first state, Rhode Island. Back then, I wrote trip reports on a PC, printed them off, and inserted pictures like a 6th grade book report. I did this solely for myself, even though I felt all-the-while that I'd be transferring these … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Peakbagging Tagged With: state highpoints

Peakbagging Tallies

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Peakbagging Tallies

Tallywhacker 2001 - To those of you who don’t need an explanation for this page, let’s have a beer together. For the rest of you... why are you even here? Actually, that sounds mean... Welcome! This is our ongoing tally of peakbagging lists. I expect and hope mine and Calvin’s ratios will continue to improve. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Peakbagging Tagged With: 52WAV, ADK46'ers, Cat35'ers, CT county highpoints, CT17'ers, NE111, NE67, NEFF, NEHH, NH48, state highpoints, T25

Why State Highpointing?

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Why State Highpointing?

"Why?" "What the heck?" "What's the purpose of that?" "I don't get it." These are but a few of the comments I've heard since I became aware of highpointing and decided it was a goal I'd like to pursue. And that was just from my (at the time of this writing) fiancee, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Non-CT, Peakbagging, Travel Tagged With: state highpoints

Book Review: All 48 in 2015

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Book Review: All 48 in 2015

GOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL! All 48 in 2015 By Michael Quigley This is a terrible self-published guide to summiting New Hampshire's 48 peaks over 4,000-feet. What it mostly is, to me, a lesson in how Amazon carts work. You see, I saw this on there and put it on one of the lists my wife had set up... there's the "Steve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Peakbagging Tagged With: Hiking books

New England 50 Finest

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New England 50 Finest

NEFF The New England Fifty Finest Another rather ambitious peak-bagging list that I'd love to complete, but I think real life will make this one difficult. This is a rather unique list that doesn’t have too much overlap with other, more popular lists. The list comprises the 50 summits with the highest topographic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Peakbagging Tagged With: Maine, Massachusetts, NEFF, New Hampshire, Vermont

Re-examining CT’s 10 Highest Peaks

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Re-examining CT’s 10 Highest Peaks

This Page now only exists for historic context File this post in the "How Steve's Brain Works" section of throwaway CTMQ pages. I've written many times that of all the stuff I write about, it's the hiking and peakbagging stuff that excites me most. I know that comes as a surprise to the museum and beer folks, but... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Post, Non-CT, Peakbagging Tagged With: CT17'ers

Round Mountain (CT)

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Round Mountain (CT)

Round Mountain (2,280 feet) Salisbury, CT October 1, 2017 2nd on CT Highest Peaks List After summiting Mt. Monadnock, Calvin was itching for another mountain to climb “just like that one last week.” Well, kid, sorry but that’s just not going to happen very easily. But I put my mind to it and figured that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Hiking Challenges, New Post, Peakbagging Tagged With: Calvin, CT17'ers, Hikes with my Boys, Litchfield County, Salisbury

Mt. Monadnock

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Mt. Monadnock

Mt. Monadnock (3,150 feet) Jaffrey, NH September 21, 2017 25th on 52WAV (Me: 1/52; Calvin: 1/52) 35th on NEFF (Me: 6/50; Calvin 1/50) I could write 5,000 words on this page. But I won’t. Just know that Calvin’s first “real mountain” was pretty much everything I could have dreamed it would be for him. Why? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Classic, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Peakbagging Tagged With: 52WAV, Calvin, New Hampshire

Book Review: Chasing Summits

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Book Review: Chasing Summits

For Peakbaggers Only Chasing Summits By Garry Harrington I read books for different reasons. I read some not for pure enjoyment, but for inspiration to write my own. As in, “hey, if this dude could get this book published by the AMC, I certainly can do something similar.” Chasing Summits is one of those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, New Post, Peakbagging Tagged With: Hiking books, state highpoints

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