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Fourth Quarter 2002 Headlines

• NPS Considers Breaking RMI's Rainier Monopoly

• Lamar Alexander in Largest Private Donation in Smokies History
• NH in Deal to Preserve Largest Privately Owned Property in State (near Connecticut Lakes)

• Stowe: US First Cross Country Ski Area (Trapps) and World's Largest Snowshoe Maker
• Rock Climbing Mountain Part of Most Expensive Las Vegas Casino Plans ("The Moon")

• Why the Russians Named Mount Saint Elias

• Wind Farm Proposed for Taconic Trail Highpoint in Mass
• Land Purchase Proposal to Move Rainier's Carbon Glacier Trailheads
• Judge Throws Out Negligence Suit in NH Skiing Fatalities
• FS Proposes Banning Rock Climbing on Nevada's Cave Rock
• Feds Looks To Expand Rock Climbing Area in Utah

• David Richie - NPS Champion of AT -- Passes

• Most Accurate Ancient Calendar (Mayan) Predicts End of World on Solstice in 2012 (maybe)
• Indonesia Closes Java's Highest Volcano Due to Activity

• Avalanche Transponder Sends Vital Signs

• Report: North Korea's 2nd Highest Mountain Hides Nuke Plant

• Avalanche Fatality During Mountaineers Outting in Washington
• Ice Climber Survives 700 Foot Fall in Scotland
• Avalanche Fatality at Trinity Mountain, Idaho
• Hiking Fatality in Tillamook State Forest in Oregon
• 6 Fatalities in Avalanches in Italy and Austria

• Controversy Over Backbone Wind Farms
• Highpointing Highlights for Year 2002
• Inch Snow Closes Mauna Kea for One Day
• New Photo Book: To the Top: Climbing America's 50 State Highpoints By N. Akerlund To Be Published April 10

Destinations

• Midwest Mountaineering Schools
• Sydney Harbor Bridge Offers Climbs Beginning at 2:30 a.m.

Accidents

• Helicopter Rescue After Whiteout on NY's Second Highest Peak (Algonquin)
• Maui Lost Hikers Flag Helicopter With Camera Flash

Backcountry Crime

• Sensational Oahu Murder Case After Body Found on Popular Aiea Trail

• Freeport (Illinois) Article on Highpointers Club and Wade Baxter
• US Nonprofits Navigate Tricky Wording in "Turquino Declaration" In Honor of Cuba's Highpoint
• Dan Howitt's 2002 Records: 1:29 Hood Ascent; 3:56 Rainier Round Trip

• You Know You're From Missouri If (Humor)
• Study: Mountain Bikers Have Deformed Scrotums and Are Sterile

• Circumnavigators Club Celebrate 100th Anniversary
• Vipers are World's Highest Snakes

• 3031 Flags Above Utah

• Feds Approve Plan to Eradicate Grand Canyon Trout to Save Native Humpback Chub

• Helicopter Rescue After 2 Become Disoriented on Mount Forgotten, Washington
• 3rd Bright Angel Fatality in Six Days
• Helicopter Rescue After Being Lost 2 Days on Haleakala
• 5 Dead in French Alps Avalanches in Ecrins and Isrere
• Hunters Find Body in Suitcase in Jersey Pine Barrens

• Hunter Shoots Hiker Near Adirondack Loj
• 300-Year-Old Core Sample Says Its Snowing More on Canada's Mount Logan
• First Iowans Seek to Climb Everest (Comparing Its Profile to a Barn)
• Virtual geocaches at Sunflower Mountain and Black Mesa

• India Reopens Kargil Peaks in Kashmir to Climbers

• Colorado's Snowmass Opens Oxygen Bar at 10,000 Feet
• James Martin Photos of Sierras on MountainZone
• What is the Highpoint of Tolkien's Middle Earth?

• 2 Lost Hikers Flag News Helicopter in Arizona's White Tank Mountains
• Expert: You Shouldn't Climb Even in "Moderate" Avalanche Warning
• Fatality on Mount Doogie Dowlel on Campbell River Bute Inlet (Canada)
• Hiker Doesn't Want Hunter Who Shot Her Prosecuted
• Hunter Shoots Man Watching TV in Trailer Near Mount Washington

• Jack Longacre Memoirs Go On Sale
• Jack Longacre Memorial Service
• Proposed Rainier $60 Climbing Fee
• Chinese Propose Official Renaming of Everest to Mount Qomolangma
• 300-Year-Old Core Sample Says Its Snowing More on Canada's Mount Logan
• Change in Distribution of "High on A Wing"
• Climbing the Lowest National Highpoint (Maldives -- 2.5 metres)
• Winter Trails Snowshoe Events at High Point/Mount Hood

• Melting Glacier Imperils World Highst Ski Area (17,000 foot Chacaltaya in Bolivia)
• Mount Baker-Snoqualmie Proposed Wild Sky Wilderness

• Climbing Clubs Offer to Help Santa Rappell in Connecticut Dispute
• Developers Apparently Win Fight to Turn Sugarloaf Into Golf Course
• Grand Canyon Water Pipeline Controversy

• Court Upholds Landowner Rights in KATY Rails to Trail
• Hunter Shoots Hiker on AT in Georgia
• Warning About Radioactive Trees in Bayo Canyon Near Los Alamos

• 2 Survive Avalanche on Quandry Peak, Colorado
• Helicopter Rescue of 2 on Mount Laguna, California
• Red Rocks, Nevada, Fatal Fall

• $8.2 Million for Cheaha Improvements (including reopening the summit tower)
• 4 Rescued By Helicopter After Two Nights Lost on Cheaha
• Climbing Mount Rainier at Age 50 Not Good to Get Elected Maryland Governor
• Dave Uberuaga Promoted to Rainier Superintendent
• Illinois Highpoint Closed for Winter
• Kenton Merc Co-Owner and Highpointer Friend Marsha Griggs 1950-2002
• Litter Problem on Black Mountain "Getting Better" (57 trash bags 2002 vs. 100 in 1997)
• Portrait of Confederate General Patrick Cleburne Dedicated in Cheaha Dining Room
• Scenic Overlook Of Black Mountain Delayed
• Wilderness and Spirit, A Mountain Called Katahdin Film Premiere

Phenomenon

• 7.9 Quake Rocks Denali Fault and Sets Off Swarms in Yellowstone and Nebraska
• Swiss Air Names Entire Fleet for Names of 4,000 Meter Peaks

Politics

• 89-Year-Old Climbing Legend Charles Houston Bemoans Current Mountaineering
• AAC Climbers Make Tyrol Declaration ("The Mountain Code")
• Pope Honors International Year of the Mountain
• Proposed Wind Farm Near Stratton/Sugaloaf Backcountry Stirs Debate

Technology

• How to Convert Mountain Heights to the New Measurements (some are 8 feet taller)
• LED's Light Way on Electronic Climbing Wall

• Camping Gear in SOS Flags Helicopter Following 4 Foot Yosemite Snow
• Fatal Fall on New Hampshire's Cathedral Ledge
• Hiker Airlifted off Chimney Rock in Catoctin Mountain, Maryland
• Hikers Investigating Yellow Tape Discover Body at Horsetail Falls in Columbia Gorge
• Incidents on New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock
• Injured Woman Survives Week in Oregon Backcountry
• Remains of Missing Hiker Believed Found in Oregon Forest Fire

Adventures

• Jolene Koby-Burley First to Hike the East Continentral Trail from Key West to Canada
• National Geographic Article on Boarding Volcanic Pumice
• NY Times Article on Cave Dog Ted Keizer's Mountain Climbing Records in East and West
• Umpqua NF, Oregon, Doug Fir Begins Journey for Congressional Christmas Tree
• Walking the 34-Mile Lenape Trail in a Day in New Jersey

Destinations

• Learning About Mars at World's Highest Lake (19,357 foot Licancabur in Chile)
• Mayor Builds Spot on Romanian Summit For Couples to Stop Declining Birthrates
• Sacramento Bee Trip Report on Telescope Peak Above Death Valley
• UAE Hopes To Make Its Highest Point (Jebel Hafeet) A Tourist Draw

Hazards

• Glen Canyon Dam Sewage Blamed for Sickness in 130 Grand Canyon Rafters Illness
• Jurors to Hike Trail in Zion Murder Trial
• Reports of High Elevation Pulmonary Edema at Lower Elevations

• Abseiling Fatality in National Geographic Action Asia Challenge
• Climbing Fatality on Yosemite Cookie Cliff
• Fatal Fall at Utah Canyonlands
• Fearful Fate for Newfoundland Hiker Who Got Stale Info From Web
• Helicopter Rescue Near Flagstaff
• North America Climbing Accidents Book Review
• Unharnessed Climber Fatal Fall on Dome Rock in Boulder Canyon, Colorado

• 745 Jumps (and 2 Injuries) at Annual New River Gorge Bridge Day in West Virginia
• Russian Fedor Konyukhov Attempts to Row Across Atlantic in Record 100 Days
• Sports lllustrated Article on Race for California Fourteener Record

• Listen to KOSU NPR Segment on Highpointers Convention
• Photo Album of Highpointers Club Fifty Flags Poster at Ground Zero

• McDonald's as it Relates to Highpointing

• Brit Climber Stevie Haston In Dramatic Escape from Nepal Captors
• Dalai Lama and "Seven Years in Tibet" Climber Heinrich Harrer Reunite

• Court Holds 9 Warning Signs Not Enough in Sacred Falls Hawaii Disaster
• Deal Signed to Remove 2 Hood NF Dams By 2008
• Proposal to Rename Mount Washington Crag for Ronald Reagan
• Utah Concerned Over Flight Plans Over Wasatch

• 40 Aftershocks Following Most Powerful Quake on Denali Fault in 90 Years
• Another Rainier Lahar False Alarm
• Swarm Quakes Precede Major Etna Eruption
• Travel Channel Show on Ghost of Carolyn Stickney at Mount Washington Hotel
• USGS Plans to "Detonate" 2.0 Quakes on New Madrid Fault in Arkansas

• Smokies "Road to Nowhere" Extension Hot Topic In Tennessee Senate Race
• Concern About Proposed Breckenridge Colorado Trail Closures
• Dog Leash Laws to Be Enforced in Three Sisters, Oregon
• Friends of the Wissahickon Indian Statue Rehab Near Philadelphia's Highest Point
• Maryland Snipers Arrested Near AT Crossing of I-70

• Jack Longacre Obituary
• Memorial Services Oct. 25 in Indiana and Nov. 16 in Missouri
• 103 Visit Rhode Island's Jerimoth on Columbus Day
• National Article on Jerimoth Visits
• Oklahoma Convention Photo Album (40 pix!)
• Please Update Highpointer Club Email List

Accidents

• Alain Robert Rescued in Driving Rain Attempt on London's Highest Building
• Helicopter Rescue on Yosemite's Lost Brother
• Kilauea Lava Field Fatality
• Radio Instrumental in Mount Shuksan, Washington, Rescue

• 2000 Brave -4 Wind Chills in Annual Greylock Ramble
• Bob Broeking's Photos of the South Dakota Harney Mountain Goat
• Germans In Hike From Alaska to South America With Dog
• Lake Placid for $950/Night (Buying the Furniture is Extra)
• Lou Dawson's Guides to Skiing the Colorado Fourteeners
• Rex's Snow Photos of Whitney's East Face and Cables
• Richard Williams Highpoint Reports of Indian Ocean (Mascarene Islands)
• Leaf Peeping Tips

• California NPS Super Tim Setnicka Who Led Blackhawk Helicopter Charge on Hunters Transferred
• Legendary NPS Leader Boyd Evison Dies

Phenomenon

• Georgia Park Adds "Lost Person Collection Points" Signs
• Government Camp, OR, PO Uses Its Original Name -- Pompeii -- For One Day
• Mauna Loa Eruption Predicted Soon
• Montserrat's Fast Growing Highpoint About to Spectacularly Collapse
• Wyoming Study Shows Warming Occurring Faster at Higher Altitudes

Government Issues

• Montana Begins Removing Squaw Names
• NY DEC Plan for Jay Mountain Wilderness/Hurricane Mountain Primitiative Area in Adirondacks
• Sierra Club Says Observatories Not Visitors Damage Mauna Kea Summit

Technology

• NOAA to Sell $300 Satellite Personal Locator Beacons

Trails

• ATA Completes Pinhoti Trail to Georgia Border

• 3 Hypothermia Deaths As Survivor UK Champ Summits Kilimanjaro
• Marco Siffredi, First Everest Snowboarder, Presumed Dead in Second Attempt
• Radio Instrumental in Mount Shuksan, Washington, Rescue
• Scottish Hiker Airlifted After Being Gored By Reindeer
• Swedish Legend Goran Kropp Fatal Fall in Washington

• Couple Attempts to Be First to Complete American Discovery Cross-Country Trail
• Gary Hause Walking Around the World
• Seattle PI Article on Lava Chasing High on Kilauea

• Sentencing in Thwarted Rushmore Bomb Plot

• Bald Mountain Closure in Maine
• BLM-Groups Clash Over Bighorn Sheep Closures in Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains
• Cleveland NF Fire Closure in California
• San Bernadino Forest Closure

• CNN on NJ-NY Long Path Trail

• $1.1 Million Funding for Adams-Greylock Road Improvements
• Club and 48-Completer Leon Barkman Featured in Newtown (CT) Bee
• First Photos of Oklahoma Convention from Hiker Bill!
• Input Sought on Mauna Kea Management Plan
• Interactive Rainier Climbing DVD
• L100,000 Needed to Reroute Main Ben Nevis Trail
• Ted Keizer Sets Catskill 3500 and White Mountain 4000 Records
• Tramway Proposed for Greylock

• 50 Inches of Snow in Rockies Since Sept. 1 (1 Foot Since Yesterday)
• Help Sought Finding Meteor That May Have Come Down in Colorado/Utah/New Mexico
• Montana Begins Removing Squaw Names
• Moose Trees Colorado Hiker
• Pot Plants Airlifted Off PCT
• Sentence Upheld for Woman Who Started Worst Black Hills Fire When She Stopped to Pee
• Volunteers Sought to Pick Pot in California National Forest
• Wallet With Cash Returned 27 Years After Being Lost on University Peak in California
• Yosemite Climbing Museum Proposal

• 2,000 Foot Fatal Fall in Gunnison National Park, CO
• 4000 Foot Peak Bagger in Mount Carrigan, NH, Rescue
• 5 Children Missing 11 Years Found By Climber on Korea Mountain
• Base Jumper Stuck on Norway Rock Face
• Bison Injures South Dakota Hiker
• Body of 2nd Hiker Found on Mount Elizabeth, British Columbia
• Civilians Find Body Missing Since July on West Point Trail
• Crater Lake Rescues
• Crestone, Colorado, Hiking Fatality
• David Hahn Mountainzone Article on Crash (he was onboard)
• Death Valley's 150 Degrees
• Details on Death Valley's 3 Heat Fatalities This Year
• Fatal North Carolina Climbing Accident
• Fatal Slide Down Cable Car Cable in Italian Alps
• Fatal Wisconsin Climbing Accident
• Flagging a Copter With a Flashlight in Arizona
• Grand Canyon Beaver Falls Fatality
• Grand Canyon Helicopter Rescues
• Grizzly Mom Injures Yellowstone Hiker
• Groups Survives 3 Lightning Strikes on Grand Teton
• Heat Blamed in Pinnacles National Monument California Fatality
• Helicopter and Boy Scouts in Stillaguamish Washington Rescues
• Helicopter Rescue in Glacier on Mount Wilbur
• Helicopter Rescue in Gunnison National Park
• Help Sought ID'ing Decomposed Body on PCT in Oregon
• Human Error Blamed in May 30 Hood Accident
• Hunters Rescue Hiker Lost 5 Day on Mt. St. Helens
• Independence Pass, CO, Climbing Accident
• Magazine Publisher Fatality on Utah Mountain
• Mount Madison, NH, Hypothermia Fatality
• Mount Major, NH, Helicopter Rescue
• National Geographic Adventure Article on May 30 Hood Accident
• Petzl Headlamps Recalled To Repair Explosion Potential
• Rainier Helicopter Disppears Into Crevasse
• Rescue in Absaorka Wilderness
• Rescue in Gusts on Mount Lemmon, AZ
• Rescued After Eatting Mushrooms in Crazy Mountains
• Tenacious Ranger Rescues Woman in Diabetic Coma in Banff After 11 Days
• Tenancious Mother Finds Son's Body on Swiss Mountain After Search Called Off
• Toilet Paper Flags Helicopter in Grand Canyon Rescue
• Yellowstone Sportsman Lake Trail Campground Ban Following Bear Attack

• Erik Weihenmayer Completes 7 Summits With Kosciusko
• First Successful Rainier Hot Air Balloon
• Ginge Fullen Climbs 100th National Highpoint
• Jack McBroom Set California Fourteener Speed Record
• Magazine Prize: Be Cryogenically Frozen Or Spend Week on Mauna Kea
• Pennsylvania Bigfoot Convention Attracts 120
• Salt Lake City-Reno Race to Break World Bike Record (80.55 mph)
• Two Dozen Accidents/Day Following Mothers Day Flow Eruption at Kilauea

• 77-Year-Old Bronka Sundstrom Becomes Oldest Rainier Woman Summiter in 19-Hour Day Trip
• Bad Highpoint Jokes
• Clingmans-Forney Ridge Temporary Trail Closure
• Craig & Mary Jane Noland Receive Highpointers Club Award
• Ed Hommer Fatality on Rainier
• Failing Health Does Not Prevent Highpointers Club Founder From Summiting Black Mesa
• Ishpeming Mine Tailings Higher Than Arvon?
• Police Called to Rhode Island's Highest Point During UN Ceremony
• Shots Fired at Stealth Hikers on Jerimoth Hill
• Smokies-Yosemite Superintendents Swap
• Tanzania Vows to Rid Kilimanjaro of Squatters
• Update on the Multimillion Dollar Development on Mount Magazine, Arkansas
• Visitors From 18 States and 2 Foreign Countries to Jerimoth Hill Labor Day Sanctioned Climb
• Washington Selected Site of 2004 Highpointers Convention

• Angeles NF Fire Closure
• FDR-Culinary Institute-Vasser Trail Proposal on Hudson
• Lewis & Clark Marker Stolen From South Dakota Hill
• Madonna & Hikers In Dispute Over Hiking on Estate
• Man Pleads Guilty to Virginia AT Murder
• New York Times on Dick Anderson and International AT
• Pigs Attack Visitors at Harpers Ferry
• Protests As Logging To Begin on PCT By Tahoe
• Trail/Road Closures in Hood NF Fire
• Wisconsin Dedicates "This Is Not a Trail" Trail

• Alaska "Volksmarch" Commemorates Sept. 11
• Arrests in Closed Areas of Mount Rushmore
• California Fourteener Flags on 9/11
• Climbing Adirondacks for 9/11 Victims Children
• Colorado Flags on 9/11
• Cops on Top of All 50 States in One Day
• Hikers Turned Away From Adirondack Loj in Labor Day Crowds
• Jersey Competition for World's Tallest Tower
• Lisa Beamer Finds Sept. 11 Inspiration from Mount Washington Hike
• Poster of Fifty Flags Posted At Ground Zero