2021 was a great year for getting some hiking goals done! I wasn’t so much about reaching a specific mileage tally or total elevation gain this time. Instead, my focus was more about knocking off a few big things from my list. My biggest goal for the year was to get all lower 48 states…
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Touched the Top o’ Texas
This makes 21/50 for me and brings my season of State Highpoints to an end for the year. 12 states in 5 months has been one heck of a ride! Guadalupe is one of the easier ones, I think! …right up there with Humphreys, Mansfield and maybe even Marcy. You climb a mere 2,800′ over…
Panoramic Views from Panorama Point
Nebraska in da books! Full trip report coming soon…
Redemption in Kansas
If you recall, we went for the Kansas state highpoint back on Memorial Day and didn’t make it. It was now time for redemption in Kansas with some unfinished business to tend to! The highest point in Kansas is on a gentle slope… out in the middle of miles and miles of remote farmland….
Mt. Marcy and My First of the Adirondack 46ers
New York’s tallest in the bag to wrap up my Northeast segment of state highpoints. That puts me at 18/50 and my first of the Adirondack 46ers. I also met a Summit Steward for the first time. Her name was Kia, who taught us about the sensitive vegetation at the top. Then instead of asking…
Appalachian Trail to Mount Greylock
From the trailheat at Connecticut’s Mount Frissell, we headed back north to Williamstown, Massachusetts, for the next stop in this 2021 Summer Series of State Highpoints: Mount Greylock The plan was simple once we arrived in this quaint New England college town: buy some flip-flops, grab dinner, dry our shoes with a hairdryer, and scope…
Finding Connecticut’s High Point on Mount Frissell
After the quick visit to Campbell Hill, my wife and I continued on to New York, where her brother Paul would join me for the remainder of this set of state highpoints. Our first objective was Mount Frissell. For Connecticut, the high point is something you have to find, rather than summit. A Trail of…
A Quick Visit to Campbell Hill, Ohio
The next segment of my Summer Series of State Highpoints starts with a quick visit to Campbell Hill. I had hoped to drive out to California for a mountaineering adventure on Mt. Shasta, following my second summit of Mt. Whitney, but missed that window due to deteriorating snow conditions. So Plan B became a flight…
Mount Whitney: Summit via the Mountaineer’s Route
DAY 4: From Standstill to Summit Push When we got up the next morning, the rain had stopped but the sky had turned gray and moody again. The real concern came from the only other group up there that day — three rock climbers planning to do the East Buttress. Somehow, they’d gotten word from…
From One Extreme to the Other in the Lower 48
From the lowest, hottest place in North America… …to the highest point in the lower 48, for my second time, this time up the Mountaineer’s Route. DAY 1: Get myself to Las Vegas Next up in this Summer Series of State Highpoints started for me last Tuesday after lunch, as I jumped in my car and…