New Mexico may be in the process of suing to take Guadalupe Peak back from Texas. The New Mexico Senate voted 33-0 to sue Texas for return of 603,485 acres of land three miles east of its current border to what it says should be the correct border on the 103rd meridian. New Mexico maintains the border was the result of an 1859 surveyor mistake. The bill now goes to the House.
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Here’s a highpoint headline from Stars and Stripes: Wheeler assumes command of USS Mount Whitney. Of the course the story is about Capt. C. Ladd Wheeler assuming commander of the new 6th Fleet flagship.
Aaron Maizlish has an amazing peaklist.org site discussing prominence (the distance from the highest point to the next highest point). The most spectacular examples of these are the peaks where you have could have a at least 5,000 foot vertical climb (there’s even peaks in the East where you can do that!). The site also lists dramatic vertical climbs throughout the world and lesser climbs in many states.
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Mountainclimb.com has great collection of pewter benchmarks of highpoints.
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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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50states.com has great information summarizing each state.
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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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You can read/post Wheeler Peak trip reports here.
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americasroof Wheeler Peak trip reports
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summitpost Wheeler – an excellent resource – feel free to crosspost.
Original americasroof Wheeler page.
The image above is from the Wheeler Peak VRML world below. WARNING: IT IS HIGH BANDWIDTH (500K). You will need the free VRML browser plug in to see it. You navigate it with your mouse. The coolest way to look navigate is to hit the EXAMINE/STUDY option (third button down).
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