2026 West Virginia Convention Host Alex de la Torre provided updated details on next year’s convention during the 2025 board meeting at the Highpointers Club Convention. Highpointers will hit those…
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Headlines for your Thursday
We’re on the backside of the week and headed for the weekend. If you are still trying to settle into the office or get your day started, here are four…
Highpointers Club Facebook August Photo Contest
Here’s the Highpointers Club Facebook August Photo Contest. https://www.facebook.com/Highpointers/posts/10155088791044616
Weekend Roundup
If you missed it, here’s a round up highpointing related news from over the weekend. Did we miss something? If so, share it in the comments! This is not so…
What’s the word?
Sitting around this morning? Sip on that coffee a little longer and check out this collection of links that may be of interest to highpointers. Even though many in this group…
2016 Highpointers Convention August 12-13 at Red Lodge, Montana
The 30th annual Highpointers Convention will be held August 12-13, 2016 at Red Lodge, Montana. John Mitchler will be hosting. Here’s a summary.
Congratulations Cops on Top on the 2016 Summit Climbs
https://www.facebook.com/CopsOnTopInc/photos/a.391661399329.169011.336565374329/10154247209004330/?type=3&permPage=1 Congratulations Cops on Top on another widely attempt to have climbers on top of all 50 states celebrating fallen police officers. Details of the event are on their facebook…
Pretty in Pink: New T-Shirt and Cap Added To Merc
The Highpointers Merc has added 2 new products – a pink cap and a pink t-shirt. To complete your ensemble you can also get a pink tote bag.
Congratulations Frank Sutman on Winning Facebook Photo Contest
https://www.facebook.com/Highpointers/photos/a.10151007455214616.541682.220629834615/10154188724829616/?type=1 Congratulations Frank Sutman for winning the Highpointer Facebook photo competition. BTW this was one of the first projects of Fallon Rowe who is working on increasing the club’s social…
“American Highpoints” Film Fundraising Campaign on Indiegogo
https://vimeo.com/133781751 Own a DVD of the first feature film about Highpointing! At the Iowa Konvention, we had a chance to see a draft of the film American Highpoints and it…
KPTV Interview with Couple Climbing Highest Points
KPTV in Oregon has an interview with a Jimmy Michaels and Rene Woodhead who climbing the highest points in the United States. KPTV – FOX 12
David Kelly’s Interactive Map of County Highpoints
David Kelley who gave us an awesome interactive map of state highpoints which lets you zoom into the USGS map has now done it again with county highpoints. That’s an…
Cops on Top 2014 Summits for Heroes Seeks to Climb All 50 States on June 29
Cops on Tops is planning its annual Summits for Heroes on Satuday, June 28, 2014 when it wants climbers to visit all 50 states. In the past more than 700…
Kimball, Nebraska, High Point/High Plains Welcome Center Opens
The High Point Welcome Center sign has been put up in Kimball, Nebraska.
Merc Reopens
Bomber and Nena Brown are back from their summer vacation and the Merc has reopened. Bomber writes:
How Do I Prove I’ve Been to a Highpoint?
Jack Longacre, the Club’s founder, was often asked, “what do we need to prove we’ve been to the highpoints?” In response, Jack formed the following response which he mailed back…
State Highpoints Recognized by the Club
The list of state highpoints that is recognized by the Highpointers Club appears in the “US State Guide“. This list appears in a document titled “Elevations and Distances in the…
Coloradoan.com article on Boundary mentions the Highpointers registration box on Nevada’s highest
The Coloradan has article on Boundary Peak, Nevada which includes this note about the Highpointers box on Boundary. Many summits contain a register of one kind or another in which…
Highpointers Club Bylaws
Following are copies of the Highpointers Club bylaws. Bylaws are published in the second quarter each year in the newsletter Apex to Zenith. We have been fortunate that Don Holmes…
Unofficial List of Highpointing Records
The Highpointers Club cannot verify most records — particularly speed record claims as we do not have people deployed to verify times. However there of course is interest in the…
Nominations for 2013-14 Highpointers Board of Directors Due February 22
The deadline for nominations for the 2013-2014 Board of Directors is February 22, 2013. Think you’ve got the stuff to make this Club work better? Want to pitch in and…
David Kelley ARCGIS Interactive Map of Highpoints
David Kelley passes along this excellent ARCGIS interactive map for the highpoints. It lets you zoom in to the highest detail on the topographic. There’s almost no online map that…
A.H. Marshall’s List of Highpoint Completions 1919-1936
Here’s a list the highpoints that first 48-completer AH Marshall did from 1919 to 1936. This should be a huge help in reading his journal which we have just posted.
Vandals Heavily Damage Mount Sunflower
We are heartbroken to see this story in the November 18, 2011, Hays, Kansas Daily News reporting on vandalism to Mount Sunflower in Kansas. This is the worst vandalism we…
Highpointers Powerpoint Presentation
The Highpointers Club Marketing Committee has created a PowerPoint presentation for Club members to share with audiences to tell the story of the Club and for members to share their…
Charlie Wingers Autobiography in Kindle Edition
Highpointer Charlie Winger’s autobiography is available for $2.99 in the Kindle edition.
Florida Times-Union Article on Highpointers Shaw and Patricia McVeigh
The Jacksonsonville Florida Times-Union has a nice article on Highpointers Shaw and Patricia McVeigh entitled “For highpointers, reaching summit is the peak of joy” The article tells how they got…
New Stuff for Highpointers!!!
New “Highpointers Connectior” blog at: http://highpointersclub.blogspot.com/ Here you can hook up with parters for highpointing, swap/find gear, post about books… Add to it and enjoy it. any ideas, just pass…
Highpointers Blogging from Mount McKinley
A 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…
Did Obama Do A Stealth Visit to DC Highpoint?
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…