Here are the details of the canoe float trip down the Delaware River to visit the New York/Pennsylvania/New Jersey Tri-State marker on Friday, July 31 during the 2009 Highpointers Convention at High Point, New Jersey.
More than 80 people have signed up for this event.
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The 2009 Highpointers Convention kicks off at 4 pm, Wednesday, July 29. with a bar-b-que and East/West softball game at Urbanski Farm’s, 3130 Church Road, Mountain Top, Pennsylvania.
People can camp on the grounds. It is 90 minutes from the convention hotel at the Best Western Hunts Landing in Matamoras, Pennsylvania.
Food and drink will be provided.
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2009 Convention Registration Extended to July 10th…
We have great plans for this year’s Highpointers Convention at High Point, New Jersey on July 30th to August 1st. Since the Woodstock Music Festival nearby is celebrating its 40th anniversary in August we hope our event will be very groovy. We do want to take you higher!
The registration deadline has been extended, so now you can register up to July 10th without incurring a late fee!!!
Remember, we are constantly adjusting the schedule.
The 2009 Highpointer’s Convention will be headquartered at the Best Western at Hunt’s Landing, Matamoras, Pennsylvania (1-84, Exit 53). Registration and all major events will take place or begin at the host hotel.
Rooms can be booked by calling the Inn directly at (570) 491-2400. Highpointers will be afforded a weekday rate of $109.00 per room and a weekend rate of $114.00 per room. More information on the Best Western can be found at their web site www.bestwesternhuntslanding.com. although the highpointer room rate is not available online. There are also a number of other hotels, bed and breakfasts, and camping sites in the immediate vicinity.
The site of the 2011 Highpointers Convention will be selected on August 1 during the Highpointers Convention at Highpoint, New Jersey. The conventions rotate to different regions in the country. 2010 will be in Mississippi. 2011 will be in the Midwest.
Each year we conduct an informal, nonbinding poll on the convention. Here’s your chance to vote. But remember that in real time, if you nominate it you have to host it! Look at the poll:
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Other websites and news sources are starting to cover the Highpointers 2009 convention at High Point, New Jersey. Here’s a sampling.
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Nearly 70 people have signed up for the New York City trip on Thursday, July 30, 2009 during the Highpointers Convention at High Point, New Jersey.
Here’s the basics of what you need to know.
A signed copy of Frank Ashley’s “Highpoints of the United States” (the first book devoted exclusively to climbing state highpoints) is up for silent auction at the
The Highpointers Foundation website.
Bidding closes at 6 PM, July 31, 2009 during the Highpointers Convention at High Point, New Jersey.
You do not have to be present to win (but we hope you will be).
The featured item this quarter is an original, signed, “Frank Ashley Guidebook” from 1970 (author Frank Ashley passed away in the year 2000 so this is a rare opportunity to score the first state highpoint guidebook).
This treasured item can only be seen in the libraries of a few venerable longtime highpointers. Very few copies were originally printed.
We have great plans for this year’s Convention at High Point State Park in New Jersey on July 30th to August 1st.
Since the Woodstock Music Festival nearby is celebrating its 40th anniversary in August we hope our event will be very groovy. We do want to take you higher!
Our “Kosmic Konvention” includes climbing the Gunks, a cookout at the world famous Urbanski farm, an excellent New York City adventure where he hope to show off our threads on the “Today Show”, a tubing adventure down the Delaware River in the Delaware Gap National Recreation Area to visit the tripoint marker of New York/Pennsylvania/New Jersey. We will have seminars on climbing and safety.
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The Highpointers Club is now on “twitter.” It’s a brand new start set up by Highpointer/Webmaster Roger ‘Forgeddaboutit” Rowlett.
There are several people signing up for it. Check it out and be sure to let us know what we can do to make it better if you see something.
