Registration has started for the 2010 Highpointers Club Annual Convention It will be Held October 7th – 9th Highlighting the Mississippi Highpoint on Woodall Mountain. (more…)
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Registration Deadline September 10 for 2010 Highpointers Convention Oct. 7-9 in Mississippi
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Member Larry Floyd Writes Book on Oklahoma Trails
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Highpointer Larry Floyd and his friend and Kent Frates have written a book on hiking trails in Oklahoma. The book lists 58 trailheads. Their favorite hike is Black Mesa with Charons Garden in the Wichita Mountains a close second.
Get Your Name on the Wall of Recognition on Hawkeye Point
Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Work by 18 FFA students is continuing on Hawkeye Point. The Highpointers Foundation has contributed $4,000 to the project. Individual highpointers are getting their name on a Wall of Recognition for donating $50 or more.
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Highpointers Blogging from Mount McKinley
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010A couple Club members are blogging this year as they climb Denali.
Troy Bacon from Indiana is with the Cops on Top team that is currently on the mountain. You follow him on blogspot.
Dave Covill is planning to climb Denali later in May. You can follow him here.
New Address for Black Mountain, Kentucky Waiver
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
UPDATE MAY 3, 2010 Penn Virginia has moved to a new location and changed its legal name. Please send the release to the new Penn Virginia. If you are sending to any other address than the one a 7 Sheridan Square, you sending it to the wrong address.
The summit of Black Mountain is private property and is surrounded coal mines. Due to this, your visit requires a waiver. You can now get it by downloading the file.
Did Obama Do A Stealth Visit to DC Highpoint?
Monday, April 19th, 2010
Blogs and news outlets were literally all a twitter on April 14 after President Obama paid a visit to Fort Reno without his usual press contingent. Blogs speculated that he was off on some nefarious secret mission. Some blogs somehow thought it was impossible that he might he want to see his daughter play soccer without the press interfering. We of course suspect that the real reason was that he wanted to see the new Highpoint Club benchmark.
Conspiracy Theories Abound After Obama Ditches the Press CBS News – April 14, 2010
New Website for Kenton, Oklahoma Merc
Friday, April 9th, 2010
The Merc in Kenton, Oklahoma by Black Mesa has a new website: kentonmercantile.net
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Midwest Motorist article on Magazine Mountain
Monday, March 1st, 2010
The March – April issue of Midwest Motors for AAA has a two page spread on Magazine Mountain AR.
These things are great for Highpointing.
Just send media items that appear in your neighborhood and let us know just what’s said about us!
The Hays Daily News article on Mount Sunflower
Sunday, February 28th, 2010“The Hays Daily News” published an article on the Mount Sunflower’s Owners and Managers.
On top of Mount Sunflower
Published on -2/12/2010, 10:53 AM (Originally published Aug, 28, 2008, in The Hays Daily News)
By MIKE CORN – mcorn@dailynews.net
Mount Sunflower KS
The article notes: Mount Sunflower is located entirely on private ground, land owned by Ed Harold’s sister, Rae Marie Jones, BigFork, Mont. Harold manages the quarter-section of ground that includes the high point, along with other ground he either has enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program or grazes cattle on.
NJ.com interview with Mike Schwartz on climbing highest points of New Jersey counties
Sunday, February 28th, 2010| Hiking the peaks over 1000 feet in New Jersey |
NJ.com has an an interview with Mike Schwartz on climbing the highest points of New Jersey counties.
