David Covill got this note from Osceola County Economic Development Executive Director Kirk Grau requesting that visits to the highpoint be done in daylight hours since the house is rented and also noting that the new campground by the highpoint has opened and there is a fee for staying there.
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Hawkeye Point: Request to Visit in Daylight and Note About New Campground Fees
Club’s Summit Register Initiative
Ever wonder what happens to those registers you sign on summits?
Thanks to an initiative mostly from highpoint liaison chairman Stony Burk the Club has begun saving historic registers. He just turned over the reigsters from Granite and Borah Peaks for safekeeping.
Stony reports:
I think Granite needs a new canister since a summit creature has eaten into a corner and found the register to be pretty tasty.
The Club (thanks mostly to Stony’s efforts) keeps historic registers for Rhode Island, Connecticut, Indiana, Wisconsin, Idaho, Montana, Mississippi and Michigan.
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Merc Reopens
General Membership Minutes – July 20, 2013, Millinocket, Maine
Below are the minutes of the Highpointers General Membership Meeting July 20, 2013 at Elks Lodge, Millinocket, Maine.
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Lake County News-Sun Article on 50 Completer Tim Townsend
The Lake County News-Sun has an article on 50-completer Tim Townsend.
Always quotable Tim was at the Maine convention in Millenocket and his blogs of his adventures have been around for more than 15 years. We last posted here on his proposed Highpointers Secret Handshake.
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Huffington Post Interview with Maine 2013 Host Mick Dunn
Mick and Ruth Anne at the Friday social during the Maine 2013 convention.
The Huffington Post has a nifty interview with Maine 2013 host Mick Dunn.
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Highpointers Foundation: Goal to have projects on 25 of 50 states by end of 2013
The Highpointers Foundation met during the convention on July 20, 2013 in Maine.
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Apex Challenge 2 Seeks to Place Highpointers on Every Summit on June 29, 2019
Bruce Marshall presentation at the 2013 Maine convention talking about the challenge.
The Apex 2 Challenge is seeking to place highpointers on top of every summit on June 29, 2019. Bruce Marshall led the effort on Apex 1 which occurred on June 29, 1994. He has a book for free download as well as details of the upcoming event on apexchallenge.com
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Iowa Selected for 2015 Convention
Hawkeye Point in Iowa will host the 2015 convention. Hawkeye was nominated by Jim Sutton who hosted the 2007 convention at Timms Hill, Wisconsin. Jim’s presentation included some nifty hawkeye black and gold t-shirts.
Convention chairman Nikki Hemphill organized a very funny counterpoint getting her entire crew to raise papers urging South Dakota at the conclusion of Jim’s speech. Otherwise there was no opposition.
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Joseph “Mitch” Michaud (1928-2013)
Joseph “Mitch” Michaud (February 12, 1928-May 2, 2013) who was the second person to complete all 50 states when he did it on December 4, 1970, passed at his family home in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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