Highpointing, Hiking, & Gear
We’re both avid readers and often get asked for book recommendations by family, friends, and colleagues. When our readers started asking for hiking book recommendations, we figured we’d post some of our favorites, along...
Date of Hike: May 25, 2014 In the weeks leading up to the Summit Chicks West Virginia expedition, Raina talked to about a half dozen people who were either from the state, attended college...
Date of hike: March 2006 A long, long time ago (before kids) we went to a wedding in San Diego and made the puzzling decision to spend the rest of our week’s vacation in...
Date: April 2014 Jill, followed by Raina a few days later Elevation: 4,139 feet Distance: Drive up via a sketchy dirt road Bathrooms: None Jill’s Take I love driving on I-81. I love...
Louisiana’s high point is deceptive in the effort required to get there. Maybe it was all of the time in the car, or the five drive up/little-effort summits that preceded it on the deep...
We visited Arkansas’ high point during a sleet storm with 40 mph winds. Our entire way up, we fought off sleet pelting our faces. Luckily, it’s only about 1 mile RT. The HP rewarded...
Leaving Mississippi, we headed north to Missouri. Several grueling hours later we arrived at Missouri’s HP. Along the way, we passed a farm with what appeared to be kangaroos on it. Seriously. Kangaroos. We...
Day 2, we left AL, swinging first into MS, then up to MO. Mississippi found us driving up a gravel road to the summit that sometimes had us questioning our judgment. Maybe it was...
Florida was the first of six high points in an intense five-day road trip of the deep south. Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana would follow respectively. Sorry, Missouri, I’m assured that you are...
I’ve been preparing for our summer hike of Mt. Washington by googleing terms like Mt. Washington + shoes or Mt. Washington + snacks. Somewhere along the way I ran across the Mt. Washington Observatory...
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