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First Quarter 2003 Headlines

 
 
March  29, 2003
7 Summit News Highpointers Club News Highpoint News Phenomenon Books Trivia Accidents
 
 
March 19, 2003
Highpoint News Politics Backcountry After 9/11 Accidents/Rescues
 
March 11, 2003
Highpoint News Adventures Obituary Phenomenon Politics Backcountry After 9/11 Accidents/Rescues
 
March 3, 2003
Highpoint News
50 Inches of Snow on Backbone Mountain, Maryland
History of Vermont's Long Trail
Mt. Washington Cog Rail to Switch From Coal to Oil
Photos of President's Day Sanctioned Visit to Rhode Island's Jerimoth Hill
Wind Farm Approved North of Maryland's State Summit on Backbone Mountain

Backcountry After 9/11
1,776 Foot Proposed World's Tallest Building at WTC Still Not As High as 2,063 KTHI Tower in North Dakota
Alaska's Biggest Rescue Unit Called Up for Operation Enduring Freedom
Alaska's Biggest Rescue Unit Called Up for Operation Enduring Freedom
Fifty Flags Above America Poster (and other momentos) Removed From Ground Zero

World
1976 Wreckage of Airliner Believed Found on Ecuador's Chimborazo
Andy Martin's World Prominence List
Japanese Man Celebrates 99th Birthday Skiing Down Mont Blanc
Middle East's Longest Mountain Pass Tunnel Opens on Kalba's Highest Mountain
Protecting the Bears on Taiwan's Highest Point - Jade Mountain
Swiss Winner of Yachting Race Plans to Take America's Cup Up Matterhorn

Phenomenon
33-Foot Glooscap Statue Landmark Up for Sale in Maine
Alaska's WInter of Discontent: No Snow Wakens Bears and Opens Golf Courses
California Restoration of Lookout Mountain Mirror Where Light Was First Measured in 1926
Foot Traffic At Base Suspected As Two Sequoias Collapse For First Time in Years
Lightning Suspected in Mauna Loa Fire That Prompted Fears of Eruption
Nene Geese Evacuated as Kilauea Lava Flows on Move Again

Crime
1962 Ben Nevis Fall Case Reopened as Homicide
Car Clouting Epidemic at Santa Fe Trail Heads
Death Valley Homicide Suspected After Hikers Give GPS Coordinates of Victim

Adventures
Interview With Junko Tabei -- First Woman to Climb 7 Summits
Summits of Hope Project to Carry Flags

Accidents/Rescues
007 Film Safety Instructor Fatality on Snowdonia
11 Rescued in Cumberland County, PA, Snow at Pine Grove State Park
26 Airlifted Following Floods in Waipio/Waimanu Hawaii
700 Foot Fatal Fall in Torridon Range in Scotland
Climber Summits Czech Peak Snezka After 1,700 Foot Fall
Fatal 400 Foot Fall on Mt. Lorette in Kananaskis Mountains, Canada
Ill Equipped Climber in Fatal Fall on Snowdon in Scotland
Lightning Fatality on Emory Peak at Big Bend, Texas
Lost Bicyclists Off Florida Trail Airlifted at Big Cypress
One Hour Hike Turns Into 4-Day Ordeal After GPS Batteries Fail in Smokies
Rainer Climber Rescue Following Fall on Eagle Peak
Snowshoer Without Beacon Avalanche Fatality Near Eisenhower Tunnel in Colorado
 
February 15, 2003

Highpoint NewsHighpoint News

  • Lila Zumwalt (1914-2003)
  • Kosciuszko Reopens Although 3/4 of Park Has Burned in 4.2 Million Acre Fire
  • Fire Damages State's Power Generation Facility on Mount Washington
  • Backcountry After 9/11

  • Backcountry Uses for Duct Tape (and How It Was Actually Used on the Columbia)
  • Iraq's Highpoint
  • Unsuccessful Search in NM's Sandias for Shuttle Debris
  • Jamie Andrew, Quadruple Amputee, Gets Award For Climb in Which India and Pakistan Flags Flew Together
  • Backcountry Crime

  • Life Sentence in AT Murder on Iron Mountain Trail Near Damascus
  • Erhard Loretan, First Solo Climber of Vinson, Gets Suspended Sentence Fatal Shaking Baby Case
  • Urban

  • $1.3 Billion Year Round Ski Resort for Nets/Devils Arena Next to Giants Stadium in NJ
  • Registration to Climb Chicago's John Hancock Center Filled in Record 18 Days
  • Accidents/Rescues

  • Dog and Hiker Airlifted After Two Nights Near Crawford Notch, NH
  • 17 Ice Fisherman Airlifted Off Lake Erie in Michigan After Unexpected Squall
  • Helicopter Rescue of Snowmobiler in Uintas in 11th Summit County S&R This Year
  • Avalanche Claims Snowboarder at Hatchers Pass, Alaska
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    January 27, 2003
    Highpoint News Controversies Everest Obituaries Backcountry After 9/11 Accidents
     
    January 16, 2003
    Highpoint News americasroof webring news Crime Everest Medical Obituaries Trails Weather Backcountry After 9/11 Accidents/Rescues
     
    January 9, 2003
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