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...]
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...]
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...]
Colorado
Highpoint #21 Mt. Elbert, 14,433 feet (3rd highest in US) July 2, 2012 They said I couldn’t do it. Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado highpoints starting and ending at the Denver airport; 1400 miles of driving between 3PM on a Saturday and ending with my flight at 4PM on Monday? “No way,” they told me. After … [Read more...]
Oklahoma: Black Mesa
Highpoint #20 Black Mesa, 4,973 feet (23rd highest) July 1, 2012 “Just lie down and get comfortable. Relax.” “Okay, I’m ready Doc…” “Good. Now tell me about when people started really calling you ‘crazy’.” “Well, I think it was when I showed such excitement about my plans for the day I was going to highpoint … [Read more...]
Kansas: Mount Sunflower
Highpoint #19 Mt. Sunflower, 4,039 feet (28th highest) June 30, 2012 ”The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.” --William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying I’d been … [Read more...]
Nebraska: Panorama Point
Highpoint #18 Panorama Point, 5,424 feet (20th highest) June 28, 2012 I enjoy many hobbies that most people simply do not. Writing? obviously. Going to museums? of course. Hiking? anytime. And yes, highpointing. I really do think it’s one of the most fun things I do. It incorporates pretty much all my … [Read more...]
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...]
Florida: Britton Hill
An Epic 12-Hour Adventure Britton Hill, 345 feet July 5, 2005 50th on the US State Highpoint List (Me: 17/51; Hoang: 17/51) Let me state right up front that I don't like Florida. There, that was cathartic. Ever since I lived there when I was a little kid, I've held a grudge against the state for various … [Read more...]
Washington DC: Fort Reno
Bonus Highpoint! Fort Reno State Park, 429 feet November 23, 2004 [March 2009 Update: A new benchmark has been placed at the true highpoint here, a few yards from where we climbed to. This does not upset me. Too much. Nope... not at all. I swear.] The District of Columbia is one wacky little place. … [Read more...]