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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
The State of Kentucky has taken over the Kentucky Coal Museum in Benham which is where waivers to climb Black Mountain had been housed and the state of Kentucky does not want to handle them. You now must mail the waiver directly to the Penn-Virginia Coal Company.
Waivers are required because the highpoint is on private property and there is coal mining operations in the area.
The release is available at:
http://americasroof.com/ky-release.html
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
Peter Thompson at the University of New Hampshire has an elegant and comprehensive description website about the geology of the highpoints of each state.
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
County Highpoints is the defacto website and forum for highpointers. Once you visit the 50 states, you’ve caught the bug and next logical spot are the 3,500+ county highpoints.
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
50states.com has great information summarizing each state.
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Richard Carey at peakbagging.com has put together a very useful list of summit benchmark information as well as the official U.S. Government datasheets on the history of the benchmark.
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