December 23, 2003

U.S. Highpoint News

• Brasstown Bald Buster 5K Road Race
• Thomas Turiano Guide to Granite And Other Yellowstone Area Peaks
• Aron Ralston Narrowly Misses Australia's Who Weekly's Most Intriquing People of 2003 List

International Highpoint News

• Australia Pondering Toilet Options on Kosciuszko
• Highpoints of Brazil States
• Highpoints of Venenzuela States

International Highpoint Recues

• Australian Airlifted Off Mount Cook After Fall Off Mueller Ridge
• Group of 9 Unprepared Climbers Airlifted Off Mount Cook
• 6th Rescue in Week on Mount Cook
• 4 Roped Climbers (including 7 summiter) Fatalities on Mount Cook

Adventures

• STLTribune Article on Illinois Born Ed Viesturs and Drive for Annapurna

Good Guys

• AMC Buys Katahdin Iron Works Near Baxter
• Popular Glacier National Park SAR Ranger Charle Logan Retires

Government

• Rocky Mountain NP Concerned About Dearth of Paramedics

Phenomenon

• California's San Simeon Hills May Have Grown Foot Following 6.5 Quake

Highpointing After 9/11

• NYC's Freedom Tower Will Be: 1,100 Feet/1,500 Feet/1,776 Feet/2,000 Feet

Accidents/Rescues

• 9 Snowmobilers Fall Through Ice at Clough State Park in New Hampshire
• Rescued After 4 Days in Australia's Snowy Mountains
• Fatality on Blueberry Ledge Trail in New Hampshire
• Bear Hunter and Searchers Rescued By Golf Course in New Jersey
• Georgia ROTC Teen Lost for 5 Hours on Orienteering Course at FDR Park In Georgia
• Helicopter Rescue Following 500 Foot Fall on Scotland's Stob Coire

December 9, 2003

Highpoint News

• North Dakota Highpoint Owner, Angeline Van Daele
• Conviction in Jerimoth Assault
• Denali Store "Windy Corners" Closes in Seattle
• Man Gets Life Sentence After Burying Murdered Wife on Mount Hood
• Sandy Wants Mount Hood Visitors to Stop By
• Mt Mitchell rescue

Government

• Forest Service Stays Ban on Climbing Cave Rock Pending Suit
• Few Dog Owners Obeying Three Sisters Dog Leash Law
• Welcome, Newest National Park Congaree Swamp in the Carolinas
• South Dakota Considers Merging Custer Into State Park System
• Proposal to Consolidate Northwest and Eagle Passes

Obituaries

• Dan Forest -- First to Climb 56 Peaks of the Canadian Rockies
• Popular Teton Ranger Richard (Rich) Spomer

Offbeat

• Study: 5.6% of Utahns Climb
• First Person Rescued With Locator Beacon Arrested When He Returns

Weather

• 52 Inches of Snow at Pinkham Notch

Backcountry After 9/11

• americasroof Proposal To Restore Piles at Ground Zero Rejected

Accidents/Rescues

• Groups Lost on Tumbledown Mountain and Miles Notch Trail in Maine Safe After Big Snow
• 3 Rescues in 2 Days Prompts Mount Cook Warning
• Movie Crew Called to Provide Lights for Rescue on Stawamus Chief in Canada
• NY Hiker Hit By Train While Retrieving Unleashed Dogs
• 30 Older Hikers Rescued After Wrong Turn on Mt. Kiyosumi in Japan
• Fatality at Cameron Pass in Colorado

November 27, 2003

Highpoint News

• Proposal to Cover Kilimanjaro With Tarp to Save Its Ice Cap
• Charleston Post-Courier Profile of Mount Mitchell
• Adirondack Park Agency Approves Limits on Group Hikes
• Air Man Receives Real Hero Award for Rainier Rescue
• Mountspeedclimbing.com Challenges Chad Kellogg's 5 Hour Rainier Climb Record
• Mountainspeedclimbing.com challenges Chad Kellogg's 14 Hour Denali Climb Record
• Two Years Later - Posters Back Up in Pinkham Notch About Murder on Mt. Washington
• Remembering the 1993 Snow That Dropped 50 Inches on Mitchell
• Winds Close Blue Ridge By Mount Mitchell As Visitor Center Roof Blows Off
• Author Critiques Macho World That Led to McKinley/Everest Climbs

Humor/Offbeat

• You Know You're From Pennsylvania...
• Wisconsin Ski Resort Prefers Granite Peak Name Instead of Rib Mountain

Personalities

• Roxanne Quimby Buys Entire Township Next to Baxter
• Aron Ralston Donates $12,000 For SAR Efforts for Him
• thepoles.com interview with John Evans -- First to climb Antarctia's Two Highest (in 1966)

Records

• Nobody Climbed K2 in 2003
• Nobody Has Climbed All 14'ers in U.S. (Alaska Included)
• 163rd Anniversary of Polish Historian Paul de Strzelecki Climbing and Naming Kosciuszko

Technology

• Marmots New Electro-Luminescent Clothing Line
• Ex Officio Buzz Off Bug Repellant Clothing Line Works
• First Locator Beacon Rescue in the Contiguous States

Urban

• 700 Participate in Annual Sears Tower Climb

Accidents/Rescues

• 20 mph Wind Fatality on Fuji
• Rescue After Spending Night With Broken Leg in Shute Canyon, Utah
• Rescue from Flooded Maui Lava Tube
• Suspected rabid fox attacks hiker at Saguaro National Park
• Suspected rabid fox attacks hiker at Saguaro National Park
• Fatality in Kentucky's Red River Gorge

Highpoint News

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Story on Mount Davis and Highpointers Club
• Is Guadalupe Part of the Rockies?
• Concode Ends Service With Record Breaking Flyover of Rainier
• NY Times Article on Stowe and Mansfield
• Hood Among Finalists in Heated Quarter Design Contest
• 30 Acre Lake on Grasshopper Glacier Disappears Near Gannett Peak
• 160th Anniversary of Rainier's 1843 Eruption
• Fourteener World Interview With Jennifer Roach
• Petition Drive to Permit Tramways and Downhill Skiing on Greylock
• Winds Close Blue Ridge By Mount Mitchell As Visitor Center Roof Blows Off
• Sue Johnston Summits All New Hampshire 4000 Footers Every Month of Year

Adventures

• Jeff Shea Climbs the 7 Summits and Visits All 196 Countries
• Touching the Void Docudrama Opens in England (January 2004 in U.S.)
• Forbes Interview with First Seven Summit Completer Dick Bass

Government

• Proposal To Make Demo Fee Permanent and Raise Rate for All Forests to $85
• Life Insurance Companies Asking Questions About Climbing Experience
• Summit Daily News Article on Quest to Name Pacific Tarn in Colorado (highest lake in U.S.)
• Wind River Information Station Closes in Gifford Pinchot NF in Washington

Accidents/Rescues

• Rescued After Four Nights in Snow Cave on New Zealand's Mount Aspiring
• Fatality on Ragged Mountain in Connecticut
• Fatality on Ireland's Highest Point

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November 3, 2003

U.S. Highpoints News

• You might be a highpointer if...
• Problems on Louisiana Highpoint
• The Old Coot Ghost on Greylock's Bellows Pipe Trail
• Montpelier Times Argus Series on Vermont Highest Peaks
• Interview With Founding Member of Oregon's Chemketans on Its 75th Anniversary
• 10 Inch Rain in Record Storm Damages Rainier Trails
• Hans Florine Sets 3 Day 12 Hour 11 Minute California 14er Record
• Climbing to 26 Beartooths Above 12,000 Feet in Montana
• 20th Anniversary of the Big Borah Earthquake on Oct. 28 in Idaho
• NY High Peaks Visits Down 8 to 10 Percent This Year

World Highpoint News

• Ravalli, Montana, News Report on Mario Locatelli Marcy Climb and Kili Plans
• Moscow Times Article on Elbrus As Drive Up
• Pravda Report on 7 Elbrus Fatalities This Year
• Only 156,000 Climbed Fuji This Year
• Warm Weather Shrinks Mont Blanc 2 Meters in 2 Years
• 5-Year-Old Girl Claims to Be Youngest to Climb Britain's Highest Peaks

Backcountry Accidents/Rescues

• Study: Sperm Counts Temporarily Decrease After Everst Expedition
• Safety Equipment Fails in Pembrokeshire, Britain, Fatal Fall
• Massive Search on New Hampshire's Mount Monadanock For Hiker Who Ignored Turn Back Advice
• Hurricane Isabel's Debris Confuses Hiker on Maryland's Sugarloaf Mountain
• Drama on New Zealand's Aoraki-Mount Cook Enters 4th Day
• 2 Apparent Fatalities on Mount Raksha Urai in Himalayas
• Fatal Fall from Red Canyons Overlook in Colorado National Monument
• Fatal Fall from Queens Garden Trail in Bryce in Utah
• Suicide and Falling Fatality at Face Rock Overlook in Canyon De Chelly, Arizona
• 5 Injured and Released in Grand Canyon Helicopter Crash
• 2 Climbing Fatalities on Tahquitz Rock (again) in San Jacinto Wilderness in California

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October 20, 2003

Highpoint News

• Democrat Presidential Candidate John Edwards Kilimanjaro Climb
• Brit Atlas Says Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua and Kosciuszko Are Smaller
• Hans Florine Sets 3 Day 12 Hour 11 Minute California Fourteener Record
• Baxter To Move To Rolling Reservation System in 2005
• Aron Ralston Close to Deal for Book -- Between a Rock and A Hard Place
• Mt Washington loses wind speed data and internet connection in 125+ mph Wind
• More Than 3,000 Climb Greylock in 38th Annual Ramble
• Denali Ranger Roger Robinson Receives National Outdoor Leadership Award
• Bill Silliker Jr. -- Photographer of Baxter's Maine Moose Watcher Calendars

Adventures

• Raphaela le Gouvello Crossing Pacific on Surfboard

Destinations

• Blue Ridge Mag: Best Mountain Town -- Blowing Rock, NC

Offbeat

• Delaware Appoints Committee to Figure Out Why It Is Only State Without National Park
• Swedish Hikers Find 70 Pairs of Shoes Filled With Butter
• Caucasus mountain to be named after Schwarzenegger
• Man in Old Fashioned Diving Suit Walks Backwards Up Snowdon
• Man Wearing Kilt (and nothing undernearth) Heads for Everst Base Camp for Charity
• Forest Service Permits Ads on Chairlifts

Urban

• New World's Tallest Building -- 1,676 Foot Taipei 101
• World's Largest Climbing Wall Opens in Scotland
• Man Arrested After Climbing China's Tallest Building Without Ropes

Backcountry After 911

• Australians Detain French Student After Asking Him Highest Point in Country

Accidents/Rescues

• Bass Creek Montana Rescue
• Helicopter Rescuer of Brit Alps Climber Who Sent Text Message to London
• Grizzly Flees After Bear Spray Following Hiker Attack on Cataract Mountain in Glacier NP
• Rescue After Woman Blown From Trip Divide Pass Trail in Glacier NP
• Recues at North Sister and Smith Rock
• Avalanche Fatality on Mount Himlung Himal in Himalayas
• King of Three Poles Killed in Avalanche Near Shisha Pangma
• Grizzly Kills 2 Katmai National Park in Alaska
• Helicopter Rescue on Mount Rundle in Banff
• Montana's First Helicopter Rescue of Dog
• Climbing Fatality on Little River Canyon in Alabama
• Helicopter Rescue in Six Mile Gorge in NY
• All Night Rescue on Tuckermans Ravine
• Rescues Near NH's Old Man on the Mountain and Mount Jefferson
• 10-Year-Old Fatality Near Loon Mountain Ski Area in New Hampshire

Africanized Honeybees Attack 2 Climbers at Saguaro National Park in Arizona

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October 1, 2003

Highpoint News

• RMI Fighting Expanded Rainier Guide Plan
• Aron Ralston Climbs Eagle Mountain on Duluth Advenutre Race Visit
• R.I. Open Access Date is Sunday October 12th, 2003
• Denali Volunteers Receive Interior "Take Pride in America" Award
• New Orleans Times-Picayune on Phil Gioia Jr.
• Greg Griffith First to Climb Highpoints of All National Parks
• Alaska Daily News Article on Dave Johnston Highpointing
• Steam/Subsidence on Fuji Following 8.0 Japanese Quake
• 14-Yearold Bridger Root Summits All Colorado 14'ers at 14
• Father of Extreme Skiing Bill Briggs (first Rainier Descent) Honored in Utah

Adventures

• Awards for First Completers for Pennsylvania's 18 State Forest Trails (780 miles)
• Deadline for 2004 Hood to Coast Race is Oct. 22

Everest

• Plans to Carry Olympic Torch Over Everest in 2008
• Nepal Discounts Claim Yeti is a Bear

Offbeat

• GM Happy With Queer Eye Exposure Of Its Yukon XL Denali

Protests

• Indians Race to Protest Oberservatory on Arizona's Mount Graham

Purchases

• California in $150 Million Deal to Block $1 Billion Ahmanson Ranch Golf Course Development

Backcountry After 9/11

• Anti Pakistanti Graffiti Removed from Ben Nevis

Accidents/Rescues

• Helicopter Rescue of Unroped Climber on Washinton Column in North Dome Gully in Yosemite
• Injured Horse Airlifted in Angeles National Forest
• Climbing Wall Owner Charged With Manslaughter Following Fatal Missouri Accident
• Brit Climbers Use Camera Flashes to Flag Rescue Helicopter in Italy
• Hiker O.K. But 2 Dogs Get Helicopter Rescue in Arizona
• Fatality on Snow Creek Wall in North Cascades
• 7 Fatalities in Helicopter Crash Near Grand Canyon's Quartermaster Viewpoint
• 9 Fatalities in Panch Chuli Peak Avalanche in India/Tibet
• Searchers Hunting for Fatality in Scottish Cuillin Mountains Find 2nd Unidentified Body