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Kings Peak and a Utah Trifecta

Posted on August 7, 2020August 22, 2024 by Backcountry Fever

#3 in my COVID Summer Series of State Highpoints is Utah’s own, Kings Peak.  The goal was for my neighbor Chad and I to do the Utah Triple Crown; which is all three of our tallest peaks, in order, in one day from a basecamp.  Those peaks are Kings (13,528′) , South Kings (13,518′) and…

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Third Reunion with Borah Peak

Posted on July 21, 2020January 7, 2026 by Backcountry Fever

An annual family reunion on my wife’s side leads me to the second in my COVID Summer Series of State Highpoints. On the 3rd weekend in July, for as long as she can remember, families from her mother’s lineage gather together for the Armstrong Reunion in the remote community of Mackay, Idaho (pronounced Mackie; pop….

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Summer Series kicks off on Humphrey’s

Posted on June 30, 2020August 14, 2025 by Backcountry Fever

Accomplishing state highpoints wasn’t a serious goal for me until COVID killed all kinds of other plans I had this year.  A few of these have already been on my bucket list for a while now, but not with any kind of serious effort to git’em done.  So with COVID making the door clear and…

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