Oklahoma, Black Mesa (4,973 feet)
Date of hike: September 27, 2014 Distance: 8.4 miles Elevation gain: 775 feet Time on Trail: Just under 3 hours Pre-Black Mesa Jitters Nearly every source I read about hiking Black Mesa cautions...
Author: Raina
Kansas, Mount Sunflower (4,039 feet)
Date: September 26, 2014 Distance: Drive-up Mount Sunflower is a fantastic drive-up highpoint. For starters, you’re greeted with a TEN FOOT tall iron sunflower, which I understand to be made of railroad spikes. What a...
Rhode Island, Jerimoth Hill (812 feet)
Mt. Frissell, South slope (CT) – Day 1 Mt. Greylock (MA) – Day 1 Mt. Mansfield (VT) – Day 2 Mt. Washington (NH) – Day 3 Jerimoth Hill (RI) – Day 3 Date of...
New Hampshire, Mt. Washington (6,288 feet)
Mt. Frissell, South slope (CT) – Day 1 Mt. Greylock (MA) – Day 1 Mt. Mansfield (VT) – Day 2 Mt. Washington (NH) – Day 3 Jerimoth Hill (RI) – Day 3 Date of...
Connecticut, Mt. Frissell S. Slope (2,380 feet)
Trip Schedule Connecticut’s highpoint kicked off another jam-packed road trip. In order, we visited: Mt. Frissell, South slope (CT) Day 1 Mt. Greylock (MA) Day 1 Mt. Mansfield (VT) Day 2 Mt. Washington (NH)...
Louisiana: Driskill Mountain (535 feet)
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...
Arkansas: Magazine Mountain (2,753 feet)
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...
Missouri: Taum Sauk Mountain (1,772 feet)
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...
Mississippi: Woodall Mountain (806 feet)
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: Lakewood Park (345 feet)
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...
