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| Date | Item | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 09/26/2001 | Glissading the WTC and Other Legends | It was the ultimate glissade story. A security guard rode the collapse of the World Trade Center from the 81st floor and survived with a couple broken legs. Except that it wasn't true. We examine some of the more sensational rumors about the WTC collapse -- ranging from the "last photo from the top" to the "Devil's Face in the Fire" to Nostradamus predicting it all. |
| 09/25/2001 | Afghanistan's Highest Point | Afghanistan's Highest Point |
| 09/25/2001 | Air Ban Stranded Climbers | The air ban following the WTC collapse stranded hikers all over the U.S. particularly in Alaska. |
| 09/25/2001 | WTC Collapse Registered as 2.4 Earthquake | Recordings across the Hudson in the Palisades registered the WTC collapse as a 2.4 earthquake. |
| 09/24/2001 | Police Whisk Away Man Carrying Flag Near Puerto Rico Highpoint | Police in Lares, Puerto Rico, whisked away a man who carried an American flag to a celebration commemorating the Puerto Rico Independence Movement. |
| 09/23/2001 | China Denies Balloonist Everest Balloon Attempt | China has refused a request to fly a hot air balloon over Everest. |
| 09/23/2001 | Colorado
Guide Sued in Ice Climbing Accident
Colorado Guide Sued in Ice Climbing Accident |
Jeff Lowe, one of Colorado's foremost ice climbing experts, has been sued over a fatal accident last winter. |
| 09/23/2001 | Walking Across Australia Harder Than Climbing Mount Everest | Jon Muir has completed a 2,500 unassisted climb across Australia and says it was more difficult than when he climbed Everest. |
| 09/22/2001 | Caretaker of Old Man of the Mountains Dies | Longtime caretaker of New Hampshire's state symbol Niels Nielsen has died at the Belknap County Nursing Home in Laconia, NH. |
| 09/21/2001 | 50-50 Challenge: 50 Summits in 50 Days | A group is forming to climb 50 state summits in 50 days without air transportation. |
| 09/17/2001 | Should Ladders Be Installed on Borah? | The season's first snow fell in the Rockies. In the discussion about snow safety on Borah, it was proposed that ladders be installed in dangerous points on the mountain. What do you think? |
| 09/17/2001 | Swarm Quakes on Mount Hood | Instruments around Mount Hood are reporting dozens of earthquakes of 2.4 or less in the past week. Authorities are not concerned. Most quakes on the mountain occur in "swarms." |
| 09/15/2001 | 100th Anniversary of Teddy Roosevelt's Descent of Marcy | September 14th marked the 100th anniversary of Teddy Roosevelt's eventful descent from Mount Marcy, New York, to become President. |
| 09/15/2001 | Giant Rock Cairns Torn Down in Colorado | Colorado is in state of confusion over the tearing down of seven foot high cairns on Mount Harvard erected by the Colorado Fourteener Initiative. A lot of people think they simply were too big. |
| 09/15/2001 | Initiative to Fly Flags Over U.S. Highpoints | Everybody is trying to cope with the disaster in their own ways. One initiative calls for carrying Old Glory to the summit of each mountain. |
| 09/11/2001 | Air Crash Near Mount Davis | The plane destined for either the White House and the Capitol was apparently brought down by passengers in a reclaimed coal strip mine about 25 miles northeast of Mount Davis, Pennsylvania. |
| 09/06/2001 | Plan to Flood Taum Sauk Park Abandoned | A company has abandoned its plans to blow up the summit of Church Mountain for America's highest capacity pumped storage hydroelectric plant. The plan had received massive opposition in Missouri as it would have flooded the creeks and rivers flowing off Missouri's highest point. |
| 09/05/2001 | 360 Boundary Peak Nevada Panorama | Roch Tofil has created an awesome panorama of Boundary Peak. |
| 09/05/2001 | 65 MPH Winds Drive Fire Into Glacier National Park | Portions of Glacier National Park have been closed because of fire. It is the biggest remaining fire in the West |
| 09/05/2001 | Brit Hiking Around the World Walks Into Trouble in Iran | Read the diary of Rory Stewart who is trying to walk around the world. The Iranian authorities didn't know what to do with him. He could ride across their country but not walk. |
| 09/05/2001 | Chicago Tribune Article on Midwest Highpoints | The Chicago Tribune has a guide to the highest points in the Midwest and includes an interview with 50 highpoint author Paul Zumwalt. |
| 09/05/2001 | Corner Corner Website Devoted to State and International Boundaries | A new website has topographic maps and trip reports from various tri-state and international corners as well as a free download of Jack Parsell's Tri-State guidebook. |
| 09/05/2001 | Crevasse Claims Mount Baker Climber | Crevasse Claims Mount Baker Climber |
| 09/05/2001 | Do You Make $89K and Spend $4,500/Year on Backpacking? | Backpacking magazine is catching heat for releasing its reader demographics. |
| 09/05/2001 | Highpointers Club Mentioned in USA Today | USA Today has an article on organizations climbing the highest of Colorado, New York, New Hampshire and other states. |
| 09/05/2001 | Kill Your Partner | Rec.Climbing has a sometimes amusing discussion on whether you should cut the rope of your partner ala the scene from Vertical Limit. |
| 09/05/2001 | Proposed Ski Lift Over Pacific Coast Trail in Washington | Sides are lining up in a battle over a proposed ski lift at Crystal Mountain, Washington, over the Pacific Coast Trail. |
| 09/05/2001 | Recycling of Mauna Kea Observatories Confirmed | The University of Hawaii has announced its intentions and tear down old observatories and replace them with newer ones rather than any further expansion on the summit. |
| 09/05/2001 | Searchable List of USGS Benchmarks in A Radius | Here's an amazing site that gives you benchmarks within a given radius. |
| 09/05/2001 | Washington Trail Maintenance More than $900/Mile | Fighting the brush on Washington trails costs around $900/mile a year |
| 08/28/2001 | Fresno's Superfund Landfill Named National Historic Landmark | Fresno officials are scratching their heads over how to handle the naming of its 60 foot high landfill as a National Historic Landmark even though it is a Superfund Site. |
| 08/28/2001 | Guide to the Headwaters of U.S. Rivers | We've launched a list of the headwaters of major U.S. rivers |
| 08/27/2001 | Boundary Peak from the North | Check out this approach report to Nevada's highest point by Arun Mahajan |
| 08/27/2001 | Camping Trip Inspires $20 Million Museum Near Marcy | Camping Trip Inspires $20 Million Museum Near Marcy |
| 08/27/2001 | Katahdin Finalist for Maine's Quarter Design | Katahdin is one of four finalists for the design of the back of Maine's commemorative quarter. Other New England mountains on quarters include the "Old Man of the Mountain" for New Hampshire and Camel's Hump for Vermont. |
| 08/27/2001 | Most Endangered Hiking Trails | The American Hiking Society is asking your help in identifying the most endangered trails in the U.S. |
| 08/27/2001 | Wanted: 3 Million Acres Around Baxter State Park | MSNBC is profiling the woman who founded Burt's Bees and is looking to buy 3 million acres around Baxter State Park to donate to the Maine National Park. |
| 08/24/2001 | Fire on Granite Peak | A small fire started by a campfire has closed temporarily the Mystic Lake trail to Granite. 8/24 |
| 08/24/2001 | Great Pictures of Winter on Katahdin | The Climb Maine page has some great pix of winter ascents up Katahdin. 8/24 |
| 08/24/2001 | Moose Scoreboard on Mount Washington | Visitors to Mount Washington on going on moose sighting adventures and many are coming back disappointed. 8/24 |
| 08/24/2001 | NH Bear Shot After Posing With Children | Visitors to the Flume in NH were sent from a visitor center while a bear was shot. The bear earlier was earlier posing with children. It scratched a boy and man. |
| 08/24/2001 | NM Bear Problems Make the Front Page of the NY Times | New Mexico is reporting that this is the worst year ever for bear control. One bear killed a 93-year-old woman. Taos which gets 10 bear complaints all summer got 40 in a two-week period. |
| 08/24/2001 | Stanley Cup Carried Up Elbert | The Stanley Cup has reached its highest level as it was carried up Elbert. 8/24 |
| 08/24/2001 | The Sterlers and Hawkeye Mountain | The Sterlers have been the only people ever to own the highest point in Iowa (it was earlier thought to be someplace else). Check out this AP story on their adventures. 8/24 |
| 08/23/2001 | 50% Success Rate on Kilimanjaro | A CNN article notes there is a 50% success rate on Kilimanjaro. |
| 08/23/2001 | 89-Year-Old Man Summits Kings Peak | 89-Year-Old Richard Pratt summited Kings Peak with his son and three grandsons. Could he be the oldest to do this? |
| 08/23/2001 | Another Blow Down in Minnsota Flattens 11,000 Acres | Another Blow Down in Minnsota Flattens 11,000 Acres |
| 08/23/2001 | Borneo's Valley of Death Near Southeast Asia Highpoint | A search is on for a girl who is lost on 13,455ft Mount Kinabulu. Searchers fear she may stranded in a 1,000 meter deep gully where a British team starved to death in 1994. |
| 08/23/2001 | Dozens of Hikers Are Falling Into Rainier's Cracks | The drought this year is playing havoc on Rainier. Earlier in the week there was a scare in Seattle television stations that it was about to erupt because of unexpected rises in the Nisquilly River. This was caused by a melting glacier and not the volcano warming. Then there are the reports of dozens of hikers falling into cracks because of snow melts. |
| 08/23/2001 | Fatality on Mount Olympus | An experienced climber and chairman of a northern Greek mountaineering club was killed a few meters from the summit of Mount Olympus when a boulder dislodged by a fellow climber knocked him down a sheer slope. |
| 08/23/2001 | Full Page Ads on Bear Protection | It looks like a full page ad explaining the difference between black bears and grizzlies and offering advice on how to survive (with this dubious hint: if all else fails punch a black bear in the snout). So, what's doing in New York City newspapers? Well, it's an investment ad! |
| 08/23/2001 | He Who Must Be Obeyed and the Rockies' Highest Point | Here's campfire story on the debate over who first climbed the Rockies' highest point -- Mout Robson. Of particular interest is the involvement is Canadian ACC Chairman Arthur Wheeler who was dubbed "He Who Must Be Obeyed." |
| 08/23/2001 | Hood Fatality | A 15-year-old boy was killed on Hood when a refrigerator sized piece of ice fell on him on the Timberline Trail west of Cloud Gap. |
| 08/23/2001 | India Criticized for Giving "Gallantry Medals" to Everest Climbers | The Prime Minister of India is being criticized for giving his troops gallantry medals for climbing Everest as the diatribe they climbed it the same week as a 14-year-old boy and 64-year-old man. |
| 08/23/2001 | Japanese Defense Minister Climbs Fuji With U.S. Troops | Defense Agency chief Gen Nakatani on Sunday climbed Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak, along with about 40 U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa in an effort to improve relations between Japan and the United States. |
| 08/23/2001 | Man Returns After Being Lost 8 Days in Sequoia National Park | A hiker looking for the biggest trees got in lost for 8 days in Sequoia National Park |
| 08/23/2001 | Mont Blanc Climber Shot in Dispute Over Campsite | A British climber is in hospital with throat wounds in southern France after being shot by gypsies in a mix-up over a campsite, while another has a shotgun pellet in his eye. |
| 08/23/2001 | Proposal to Reintroduce Elk into New York | The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has made a formal proposal to return elk to the Adirondacks and Catskills (the last native elk was killed in 1847). |
| 08/23/2001 | SUV One | George Bush abandoned his Lincoln in Rocky Mountain National Park and jumped into a Chevrolet Suburban. |
| 08/23/2001 | Unpaved Road Near Mauna Kea Summit Obliterated | The unpaved Poli'ahu Road on a sacred puu near the Mauna Kea summit has been obliterated to discourage off-road vehicles and protect a native insect. |
| 08/13/2001 | Appalachian's Most Wanted Plants | The National Park Service is cracking down on poachers on the Blue Ridge Parkway who are trying to make off with the area's plantlife. The most popular target is ginseng which can fetch a month's salary for some poachers in just a pound. However, no plant is immune to poarching. |
| 08/13/2001 | Calling for Directions from Ben Nevis | Hikers on Britain's highest point called 999 (the Brit equivalent for 911) for help and then got talked down off the mountain. (8/13) |
| 08/13/2001 | Nicknames for Trail Hikers on the AT | If you see Harmonica Joe or Lonely Beat let me them know we've about them. On the AT you don't go by your given name. (8/13) |
| 08/13/2001 | Protection for Washington, DC's Southern Most Point | Efforts are underway to protect a stone at Washington D.C.'s most southern point which was placed there by the black surveyor Benjamin Banneker who surveyed the capital on orders of George Washington. |
| 08/13/2001 | Sightseeing Plane Crash Kills 6 in Grand Canyon | A sightseeing plane out of Las Vegas crashed on the edge of the Grand Canyon killing 6. (8/13) |
| 08/12/2001 | Access Alerts on State Highpoints | Following recent private property closures on Illinois and Delaware, the Highpointers Club has a page devoted to access issues on all states. |
| 08/12/2001 | Castro Celebrate 75th Birthday at World's Highest Waterfall | Cuba's Fidel Castro celebrated his 75th birthday at Venzuela's 2,900 foot high Angel Falls. (8/12) |
| 08/12/2001 | Elbrus is 8 Miles From Asia | Many people think that Elbrus in Russia is incorrectly listed as the European highpoint. However a profile of the mountain by the Los Angeles Times shows that it is 8 miles from Asia. |
| 08/12/2001 | Plane Crashes Into AT in Maryland | A plane crashed into the AT by Boonesboro killing three. |
| 08/10/2001 | 14-Year Is Youngest To Climb's Peru's Highest | Paul Hanson is the youngest climber ever to reach the summit of Mt. Huascaran, Peru's highest mountain. |
| 08/10/2001 | Babies Burried at Baxter Motion for Change of Venue | A motion has been made to move the case of the 2 babies buried in Maine's Baxter State Park to Massachusetts. |
| 08/10/2001 | Best Pictures of Borah Peak's Chicken Out Ridge | There's not much snow on Borah this summer. However we have some pix of Chicken Out Ridge and a 360 summit panorama of the summit that may make you grow feathers. |
| 08/10/2001 | Colorado Raises "Hiker License" Fee to $3 | Colorado has raised the price of "Hiker License" card to $3. Proceeds from the card are used to offset search and rescue cost. They weren't selling well at $1 because stores weren't making any money. They will still look for you even if you don't have one though. |
| 08/10/2001 | Eleven-Year-Old Summits McKinley | Eleven-Year-Old Galen Johnston became the youngest person to summit McKinley. |
| 08/10/2001 | New California Fourteeners Speed Record | Josh Swartz recently summited all fifteen California Fourteeners in 5 days, 23 hours and 41 minutes, beating Hans Florine's old record of 9 days, 10 hours, and 50 minutes. (8/10) |
| 08/09/2001 | Tips for Hiking Pace | Outdoors Magic has tips for setting a hiking pace (hint: it's o.k. to hike fast downhill). Some folks disagree with their recommendations. |
| 08/08/2001 | Bug Resistant Fraser Firs on Clingmans? | A researcher is heartened to find that some fraser firs are developing an immunity to the bugs that have killed 90% of the mature Fraser firs in the Smokies. |
| 08/08/2001 | Coat Your Face with Vaseline on Mount Washington | The American Journalism Review has an amusing tale of the exploits of its on camera meteorologist. There's the tale of visiting Mount Washington where they had to coat their faces and toes with vaseline to protect against the -25 wind chills. On the plus side, their visit there did not attract the usual weather weanie groupies who drive hundreds of miles to be near the interview! |
| 08/08/2001 | Ink Wells North Approach to Gannett Closed | A fire on both sides of the Glacier Trail on the north Ink Wells approach to Gannett has closed this approach. The fire has so far consumed about 550 acres. Officials believe it will probably stay totally within the Fitzpatrick Wilderness and are not actively fighting it even though they think it could spread to 4,000 acres. They do not expect containment before September. Meanwhile the fire by the east entrance to Yellowstone has subsided enough that they have started to reopen the entrance. |
| 08/08/2001 | Woman Mugged in Denali National Park | A woman was beaten to unconciousness in a Denali National Park. Park officials cannot remember of there ever being any other muggings but think this may be a sign of things to come as the park becomes more popular and has more seasonal employees. |
| 08/07/2001 | Dead Sea Predicted to Disappear By 2050 | An environmental group is predicting that the Dead Sea (its banks are the lowest place above water on earth) will dry up by 2050 as the Jordan River water is being diverted to Israel and Jordan. |
| 08/07/2001 | Where to Get Smoked Salmon Pizza in Talkeetna | A lot has changed at this jumping off point for McKinley climbers in Alaska. Go ahead an sip your espresso as you read this Christian Science Monitor article. (8/7) |
| 08/06/2001 | 2002 Highpointers Convention in Oklahoma Rescheduled | The 2002 Highpointers Convention at Black Mesa has been moved from July to Sept. 18-22. |
| 08/06/2001 | Are First Ascents Worth It in Kyrgyzstan? | Climbing Magazine paints an unflattering portrait of Western climbers who are seeking "first ever" ascent titles in Kyrgystan. Last years a group of American climbers were kidnapped and then escaped after pushing their captor off a cliff. However, this is a very poor and explosive region and the climbing attempts are stirring all sorts of often fatal events. |
| 08/06/2001 | Extreme Science on Hood | There's a new breed of scientist -- "extreme scientists" -- who have to be climber/adventurers to carry out their projects. |
| 08/06/2001 | Naval Officer Falls Kilauea Crater While Retrieving His Cap | A Naval officer fell 80 feet into the Kilauea crater after he went through the iron rails to retrieve his cap. His fall was halted by a tree. Otherwise he would have fallen another 100 feet. |
| 08/06/2001 | New Powerplants Would Obscure Hood and Rainier Views | A study shows that if 44 new powerplants are built in the Northwest, they will obscure the views of Rainier, Hood and other peaks for more than a month each year. |
| 08/06/2001 | Solo Balloonist Seeks to Fly Over Everest | David Hempleman-Adams, who has a dubious reputation as a mountain climber, is seeking to make a two hour flight over Everest in a hot air balloon. He will be buffeted by 100 mph winds and temps of -50. |
| 08/03/2001 | Charles Mound Illinois Closed to "Tourists" | The highpoint of Illinois has been closed to tourists although "legitimate" highpointers can make arrangements to visit. The highpoint was in the front yard of a family and they say they are suffering vandalism. |
| 08/03/2001 | Forbes Business Editor Dies on Rainier | Lawrence Miner, the business editor of Forbes Magazine, died of a heart on Rainier while climbing with his daughter on an RMI led expedition. |
| 08/03/2001 | Into Thick Air -- National Geographic Parody of Mount Sunflower and Panorama Point | The "Into Thick Air" parody of National Geographic (it even looks like the magazine!) has expanded to also include a report not only of Mount Sunflower in Kansas but also Panorama Point in Nebraska (note: they were also unsuccessful in finding Sandy Irvine). |
| 08/02/2001 | Fatality on Wildday.com K2 Expedition | The owner of the clothing company wildday.com was hoping to set a record by running his business from the highest spot ever -- from his notebook computer on K2. The expedition has had a fatality and the report is rather cold as it begins, "We had our first death today. A young French climber and friend of ours went to his bed in Broad Peak Base Camp with a headache and died in his sleep of cerebral oedema. He was twenty years old. |
| 08/02/2001 | Virginia Creeper Trail Closed Following Flooding | Floods throughout the Appalachians have caused havoc and fatalities. A portion of the Virginia Creeper Trail near Mount Rogers is closed indefinitely after a trestle was washed out. |
| 08/01/2001 | Abandon All Friends and Relatives on Rainier | The Rainier guides are serious about avoiding distractions. They are separating couples and friends on the ascents. |
| 08/01/2001 | Climbing State Highpoints in the Winter | Dave Johnston of Talkeetna (part of the "Minus 148" party) is attempting winter ascents of all state highpoints. He's done the difficult ones and only has the likes of Florida and Delaware to go. |
| 08/01/2001 | Feds Block Washington, DC, Highpoint | The federal government has fenced in access to Washington, D.C.'s highest point at Fort Reno. |
| 08/01/2001 | Hikers Not Taking Wilderness Permits Seriously | A review of Wilderness permits in Oregon is showing that hikers are not taking them seriously. Writing is illegible and the info is filled in with jokes and inaccurate information. The permits are a valuable tool in search and rescues. |
| 08/01/2001 | Online Distance Calculator | There's a bunch of sites out there that let you calculate straight line distance based on longitude/latitude. |
| 08/01/2001 | Private Property Sign Posted on Delaware Highpoint | Some people have been wondering across a field from the sign at Ebright Azimuth to the actual state highpoint which is about three feet higher. That route has now been posted as "Private Property." |
| 08/01/2001 | Record Turnout for Highpointers Convention | The Highpointers Club Convention on Backbone Mountain had a record 290 attendees. The cabinet level Commissioner of Parks attended. 89-year-old Paul Zumwalt won a lifetime achievement award. John Mitchler and Dave Covill won a Club Service Vin Hoeman award. |
| 07/25/2001 | 1001 Hikes Up Mount LeConte | Mount LeConte in the Smokies is the highest peak from base to summit in the East. Ed Wright has climbed it more than a thousand times. |
| 07/25/2001 | A Thousand Swarm Earthquakes Rattle Whitney | The area just south of Whitney is experiencing "swarm" earthquakes. The biggest quake was a 4.9. There has been little or no damage and nobody has been injured. Geologists do not believe this is a portent of "the big one" -- although the third most powerful quake in the contiguous U.S. was at Lone Pine in 1872. |
| 07/25/2001 | Carry A Rock Up Marcy | The Adirondack Mountain Club wants hikers to carry stones from the Adirondack Loj to the summit for scree walls, cairns and rock packing. |
| 07/25/2001 | Cell Phone Service on Kings Peak | If you're looking to call from Kings Peak, Utah, you can do it from the summit but may have poor luck in the Henry Fork basin. |
| 07/25/2001 | Cuba's Highpoint Reopens | Cuba has reopened Pico Turquino to the public although you will probably need a local guide. This was afterall where Fidel Castro hid out during the revolution and has been one of the most "secretative" highpoints anywhere. |
| 07/25/2001 | Dramatic Photos of Lohtse Middle Climb | Last week we reported that the Russians climbed Lohtse Middle -- the last 8,000 meter unclimbed peak (there are 14 8,000 meter peaks but they have a total 20 subpeaks which include Lohtse Middle). Check out the photos! |
| 07/25/2001 | Effort for Formal Memorial for Rocker Gram Parsons at Joshua Tree | It's popular campfire lore about how Rocker Gram Parsons was taken from a funeral parlor and burned in Joshua Tree National Park. The site has become something of a shrine and now folks want it formally recognized. |
| 07/25/2001 | Is Spruce Knob the Next Mauna Kea? | Astronomers are finding the West Virginia summit a good place to stargaze. |
| 07/25/2001 | Jerimoth Hill Open Access Date on Monday, July 30 | The Highpointers Club is meeting this week at Backbone Mountain, Maryland. The festivities will wind up with a trip to Jerimoth Hill, Rhode Island, on Monday, July 30. Jerimoth is closed to the public for most of the year. |
| 07/25/2001 | Korean Becomes 9th Person to Climb All 8,000 Meter Peaks | Park Young-seok (38) finished K2 to become the 9th person to climb all 14 of the 8,000 meter peaks. |
| 07/25/2001 | Matt DiBiase's Poetic Ascent of Mansfield | Matt Dibiase always has poetic trip reports. Check out his report on a Mansfield Vermont climb. |
| 07/25/2001 | McKinley Wrapup: 60% Summit Success in Busiest and Safest Year Ever | It was a record year with 1,305 climbers and a 60% summit success rate on McKinley. It is also the third year in a row where there have been no fatalities. |
| 07/25/2001 | Mount Etna - Europe's Highest and Most Active Volcano Erupting | Mount Etna on Sicily is erupting spectacularly again. |
| 07/25/2001 | Mountain Institute Board Returns to Spruce Knob | The Mountain Institute which the preservation of mountain environments and advancement of mountain cultures around the world. is meeting on Spruce Knob. |
| 07/25/2001 | Muscular Dystrophy Fund Raiser on Kilimanjaro | A team is seeking to raise funds by climbing Kilimanjaro. |
| 07/25/2001 | Paraplegic Summits Elbert | Keegan Reilly, a paraplegic, summited Elbert in what may be the most ambitious climb by a paraplegic (it took four days to climb). |
| 07/25/2001 | Profile of Connecticut Search of Rescue Teams | It may not seem possible but Connecticut has its share of wilderness search and rescues. |
| 07/25/2001 | Surfers Seek to "Scale" 100 Foot Wave | Surfers are seeking to break the 66 foot high record for riding a wave. There's nearly a half million dollar "reward" for the person who makes it to 100 feet. |
| 07/25/2001 | Whitney Portal Opens Second Store in Lone Pine | The Whitney Portal Store has opened a branch in beautiful downtown Lone Pine |
| 07/22/2001 | Alaska Renews Its Fight to Rename Mount McKinley to Denali | The
Tanana Chiefs have renewed their fight to rename Mount McKinley for its
Athabaskan name of Denali. Further Mount Foraker would be renamed to Denali The Tanana Chiefs have renewed their fight to rename Mount McKinley for its Athabaskan name of Denali. Further Mount Foraker would be renamed to Denali Be'ot, meaning "Denali's Wife." The Alaska Legislature supported this for 25 years however the move has been blocked by Rep. Ralph Regula of McKinley's home district in Ohio who has always introduced Congressional legislation to block this. You can also vote on our poll. |
| 07/18/2001 | 50th Anniversary of First West Buttress Approach to McKinley | It's been 50 years since the most popular route up McKinley was climbed. It has transformed Talkeetna. |
| 07/18/2001 | Acadia Trail Closed After Goshawk Attacks Hiker | A goshawk attacking hikers prompted the closing of Triad-Hunters Brook Trail. |
| 07/18/2001 | Bison Butts Yellowstone Visitor | A bull bison butted a 19-year-old Yellowstone visitor. She was not hurt. |
| 07/18/2001 | Cats on Mount Washington | Check out the tabbies at the Mount Washington Obervatory. |
| 07/18/2001 | Climbers Survive Lightning Storm on Devil's Tower | Several climbers were injured in a surprise lightning storm on Devil's Tower. |
| 07/18/2001 | Double Amputee Begins Everest Ascent on Aug. 9 | Ed Hommer, a double amputee from Duluth, Minnesota. Hommer would be the first double amputee to summit the more than 29,000-foot Mount Everest when American-Canadian Mount Everest Expedition begins its ascent on Aug. 9. In 1999, Hommer became the first double amputee to summit Mount McKinley. This is the same mountain where, in 1981, Hommer crashed his single-engine airplane and was stranded for several days with little food and no shelter. After being rescued, Ed's frostbitten legs were amputated at mid-calf. |
| 07/18/2001 | Highpointers Club Featured in U.S. Air's In Flight Magazine | The Highpointers Club is featured in the current issue of "Attache" the inflight magazine of U.S. Air. |
| 07/18/2001 | Longest Single Pitch Rappel | A query about the "longest single pitch rappel" brought stories of climbers dragging ropes to the top of El Capitan and then dying on the 3,000 foot rappel. Then there's the cave stories. |
| 07/18/2001 | Mont Blanc Fatalities | There's a sad stories involved in accident in which two Mont Blanc climbers were killed. One of the mountaineers left behind a note urging his teenage daughers never to be discouraged from adventures. |
| 07/18/2001 | No Quotas on Hood Meet Mixed Reviews | The debate continues to rage in Oregon over quotas on Hood. Did the Forest Service blink when it let local hiking organizations police the mountain in exchange for no quotas? |
| 07/18/2001 | Rock Climbing Star Leo Houlding | At 20 years old, Houlding is already a legend in mountain towns around the globe for his outrageous talent and full-on lifestyle. He is on a never-ending adventure tour, drifting from the colossal granite walls of El Capitan in California's Yosemite Valley through remote mountain ranges in Chile to full-moon parties on the Thai island of Ko Pha Ngan. |
| 07/18/2001 | Russians Climb Last 8,000 Meter Peak | Russians have laid climbed Mid Lhotse, the last unclimbed 8,000 meter summit in the world (there are 14 8,000 meter peaks and they have a total of 21 independent sub-peaks -- "antesummits"). |
| 07/18/2001 | Smokies Visitors Down 8% This Year | Two of the country's most visited national parks -- Great Smoky National Park and Yosemite are experiencing dramatic drop offs in attendance this year. |
| 07/18/2001 | Summitpost.com | Here's an awesome comprehensive and beautiful site listing the mountains in the world -- all elegantly put together. If you have climbed a mountain (it doesn't have to be a highpoint), you can contribute your photos and commentary. Currently they are featuring a photo collection of the recent Mount Hood rescue. |
| 07/18/2001 | Summits With Elevations Below Sea Level | The debate rages over what makes a mountain. There are hills in California with elevations below sea level and there's Blue Mountain in Florida towering at 26 feet. |
| 07/11/2001 | 16-Year-Old Boy Summits McKinley | Lucas Ridley, a 16-year-old boy from Bowling Green, Kentucky, is one the youngest people to summit Mount McKinley. |
| 07/11/2001 | 2 Killed in Dispute Over California Campsite | An 11-year-old and his uncle were shot over a RV campsite at Morro Strand State Park. The victims had reported the assailant to Park Officials before they were shot. |
| 07/11/2001 | 9-Year-Old Japanese Dies in Jasper Glacier Plunge | A 9-year-old boy who was walking across a glacier at popular tourist stop on a highway in Alberta when he fell through a snow bridge into a crevasse. |
| 07/11/2001 | A Thousand Lightning Strikes on Sequoia National Park | A huge storm moved through the West on July 2. More than a thousand lightning strikes were reported at Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park. They started forest fires throughout the west. |
| 07/11/2001 | Baltimore Sun Article on the Highpointers Convention | The Baltimore Sun has an extensive article on the Highpointers Convention coming up July 26-28 at Backbone Mountain (here's a piece of trivia: Don Holmes has been highpointing since 1970). |
| 07/11/2001 | Colorado Doesn't Know If It Can Remove Graffiti From Wilderness | Colorado authorities are trying to figure what to do with graffiti on a rock in the Indian Peak Wilderness. The usual methods for clearing are prohibited because it's a wilderness area (e.g., chemicals, sandblasting, etc.). |
| 07/11/2001 | Harrison Ford In Another Yellowstone Chopper Rescue | It's been dubbed "Indy II", actor Harrison Ford was involved in the second rescue in a year of hiker in Yellowstone. |
| 07/11/2001 | idahosummits.com | Dan Robbins has an awesome web site devoted to Borah and other Idaho mountains. |
| 07/11/2001 | Lost Hiker With 2 Possibly Broken Ankles Returns After Week | This was a high profile lost hiker case. A military search helicopter crashed near Granite Dome in the Emigrant Wilderness in the Sierra Nevada. However, the solo hiker managed to find his way back even though it appears he had two broken ankles. |
| 07/04/2001 | 3.3 Earthquake on RainierMount Rainier had a small 3.3 earthquake. | Mount Rainier had a small 3.3 earthquake. |
| 07/04/2001 | Caving Group Busted Digging Cave Entrance Near Frissell | A Connecticut caving group was busted digging a hole in the Appalachian Trail corridor near Salisbury and Mount Frissell. |
| 07/04/2001 | Chinese Proposal to Carry Olympic Torch Up Everest | The Chinese are proposing to carry the Olympic Torch up Everest if they are successful in their 2008 bid for the Olympics. |
| 07/04/2001 | Climber Survives 2,000 Foot Fall Down Mount Shasta | A man who slid 2,000 feet down Mount Shasta suffered a puncture wound to his groin from his ice ax, but was otherwise unhurt, hospital officials said. |
| 07/04/2001 | Fatal Whitney Accident | A soloist on Whitney fell to his death on the Mountaineer Route. |
| 07/04/2001 | Firefighting Helicopter Gets Stuck on Boundary Waters Bog | Minnesota is very concerned about unusually dry conditions in Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area (where the fire hazard is heightened by the millions of trees blown down on July 4, 1999, storm). A helicopter fighting a fire there got stuck in a bog. |
| 07/04/2001 | ICBM Coordinates | A discussion on North Dakota wanting to drop its "North" designation evolved into a talk about the state's nukes. A web site lists the coordinates for all the nukes in the U.S. |
| 07/04/2001 | Jerimoth Visitation Attracts English Climber | The controversy regarding access to Jerimoth Hill has taken on an international flavor as a visitor arrived from England on the July 1 visitation to Rhode Island's highest point. |
| 07/04/2001 | Katahdin Gates Opening at 5 a.m. and Full By 6 a.m. | Katahdin's summer hours include an earlier opening time -- 5 a.m. The day quotas are often being filled by 6 a.m. |
| 07/04/2001 | Mountain Biker Confesses to Arsons to "Protect" Trail | The Arizona Republic is reporting that Mark Warren Sands has confessed to setting luxury houses on fire near Phoenix to protect his mountain biking trail. The fires were dubbed the "Knobby Fires" |
| 07/04/2001 | North America's "Most Easterly" Trail Opens in September | The East Coast Trail in New Foundland will officially open in September. It claims to be the "most easterly" trail in all of North America |
| 07/04/2001 | Smoke Obscures McKinley in Massive Fire | A masssive 130,000 acre fire -- believed to have been touched off workers installing a controversial electrical line -- has obscured the skies from Anchorage to Fairbanks. McKinley flightseeing planes are continuing by flying above it. |
| 07/04/2001 | Summit Registers Removed From Adirondacks | New York has removed summit registers from trailless Adirondack peaks as part of its "leave no trace" policy. It's not a popular decision. We have a poll and lots of comments. |
| 07/04/2001 | Video of Rescue of Hood Climber | If you have the misfortune of getting hurt on a mountain in a metro area be prepared to be "film at 11." A Mount Hood climber survived a 200 foot fall and then was filmed as he was dragged down off the mountain. |
| 07/04/2001 | What Midwest State Should Host the 2003 Highpointers Convention? | Those attending the Highpointers Convention July 26-28 on Backbone Mountain, Maryland, will vote on what state should host the 2003 convention. We have a poll. |
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