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Second Quarter 2004 News
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June 30, 2004

Highpoints News

• Bike Ride From RI Low Point to High Point on July 3
• GPS Waypoint data files for the State Highpoints
• 3.7 Earthquake on Rainier
• Katahdin's Cathedral Trail Closed Until July 1 Following Fatal Rock Slide
• Ted Keizer Does Vermont's Long Trail in Record 4 Days 13 Hours 15 Minutes

McKinley News

• First Rock Fall Fatality in McKinley History (at Windy Corner and at night)
• Climber's Body From 1969 Believed Found at 17,200 Feet on Denali (35 Remain on Mountain)

Highpointers Club

• Highpointers Convention Door Prizes: valued mountaineering books

Highpointers Webring

• Welcome Ben's Highpointing Page to Webring
• Welcome Steve Tursi Highpointing Adventures to Webring

World Highpoints

• Magellan Yacht Race Includes Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis Climbs
• Newly Discovered Nanga Parbat Bone Stirs Reinhold Meisner Accident Controversy
• 5 Pakistanti Porters Drown During 50th Anniversary Climb of K-2

Gear

• Outside Gear Guy's Advice for Best Waterproof Tents

Adventures

• 14 Year Old "Spider Boy" Scott Cory Sets Records on Half Dome and El Capitan 1-Day Climbs

Animals

• Mountain Lion Scare in Franklin Mountains, Texas, Rescue
• Mountain Lion Mauls Hiker at Johnsondale Bridge in Sequoia National Forest

Accidents

• Fatality on Snowmass in Colorado
• Bones Believed To Be Those Of Lost Hikers in September 2003 Uinta Snow
• Teen airlifted from Weminuche Wilderness, SW Colorado
• 70 mph Surprise Winds Catch Hikers Unprepared in Franconia Range
• Fatal Fall From Angels Landing in Zion

June 25, 2004

Highpoint News

• Randolph Farms Landfill Extension to 1,335 Feet Would Top Hoosier Hill's 1,257 Feet
• Still Hunting for 1759 Treasure on Mount Washington
• 4 Telescope Array to Photograph Universe Every 4 Days from Haleakala

Rainier/Cascades News

• Climb Rainier With Ed Viesturs and Peter Whittaker for $3,000/person July 19-23
• Experts: Snow Conditions on Rainier's North Side Worst in Recent Memory
• Recovered Camera Reveals Rainier Storm That Went in 20 Minutes from Sunny/Hot to White Out As Rainier's Liberty Ridge Records 4th Fatality of Season
• Signed Ice Axe, Autographed Books by Viesturs and Whittaker Among Highpointer Convention Door Prizes...
• KATU Story on Cascades Climbing Season
• Study: 140,000 Visitors to Hood Wilderness Twice What Expected
• Luke Casady, Founder of alpineclubofmissoula.com, on Rainier's Liberty Ridge

Highpoint Adventures

• Climbing Kings Peak With Goats
• Hiking Mount Washington and Katahind in Day
• Ted Keizer Seeks to Break Ed Kostak's 273 Mile Long Trail Record of 4 Day 15 Hours 19 Minutes
• Jonathan Wyatt Wins 7.6 Mile Mount Washington Climb to the Clouds In Record 56:41

Highpoint Merchandise

• Timothy Silver's Mount Mitchell Book Wins Award
• Touching the Void Now Available on DVD/VHS
• New Highpointers License Plate Frames
• New Book On South Carolina Above 3000 Feet
• New Photos of 25,30,40,48,50 Highpoint Completer Pins

Offbeat

• 2004 Hike Naked Day
• Madonna Wins Fight To Bar Hikers From Within Sight of Home

Backcountry After 9/11

• Adirondack Granite to Be Cornerstone of Freedom Tower

Everest

• Clinton Book Scandal: Wife (born in 1947) Was Not Named for Explorer (Everest '53)
• Controversial Record Breaking Sherpa Saw Ghosts on Everest

Government

• Utah County Begins Using Collection Agencies to Collect on Search and Rescue Bills
• Debate Over Replacing Baxter's Daicey Pond Cabins This Fall

Accidents/Rescues

• Wilderness Education Institute Student Fatal Fall at Cascade Falls, Colorado
• Man falls 290 feet off a cliff to his death in Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas
• Dementia Blamed in Fatality on Shortcut Trail Near Ouray
• Rangers Flown In To Help Climber on Middle Teton
• Yellowstone's Mary Mountain Trail Temporarily Closed After 2 Grizzlies Swat Prone Hiker
• Helicopter Rescue from California Desolation Wilderness
• Camouflage-Clad "Samurai" Orders Hikers Out of Berlin Forest

June 17, 2004

Highpointers Club News

• Registration Deadline for Club Convention Extended to July 12
• Discovery Channel Show on Denali's Climbing Johnstons

Denali News

• Yoshitomi Okura Plans Repair of 18,733 Foot Denali Pass Weather Station (and 15th summit)
• NY Times Article on Seeing Flightseeing Denali

U.S. Highpoint News

• Bike Ride From RI Low Point to High Point on July 3
• Media Incorrectly Calls National Cathedral DC Highpoint During Reagen Funeral
• Shoot Out on Newfound Gap Road Following Clingmans Roadblock
• Searchers Dig Through 4 Feet of Snow To Recover Gannett Plane Victims
• Baxter Pioneer Austin Wilkins Receives Forestry Award
• Seattle Times Editorial Opposing Charging Climbers for Rainier Rescues
• Senator Signs on For Expansion (and renaming) of Mount Hood Wilderness
• Rescue on Katahdin's Hunt Trail

World Highpoint News

• Korean Navies First Radio Exchange Since War Is About Highpoints
• Guide Service for Ojos del Salado in Chile
• 3 Koreans Killed in K2 in PakistanAvalanche
• Fatality on Snowdon in England

americasroof news

• Welcome Targo's Highpointing Page to Highponters Web Ring

Obituary

• Ulrich Inderbinen Who Climbed Matterhorn 370 Times

Offbeat

• NOAA Report: Total Built Up Areas Equal to About the State of Ohio
• Erosion Topples One the Five Towers of Cortina in Dolomites in Italy

Milestones

• REI CEO Dennis Madsen Stepping Down

Hazards/Accidents/Rescues

• Fire Hazards Close Tonto Trails/Restrict Coconino Trails in Arizona
• Falling Tree Kills Cub Scout in Pine Grove Furnace State Park in Pennsylvania
• Rescue on Quandry Peak in Colorado
• Fatality on California Fourteener Mount Sill
• Man Jumps From Tour Helicopter Into Grand Canyon
• Swedish Fatality on Zapadnaya Mountain in Russia
• Piestewa Peak Hiker Aiflifted After Being Spotted By News Copter in Arizona

June 6, 2004

Denali News

• NY Times Article on Seeing Flightseeing Denali
• Yoshitomi Okura Plans Repair of 18,733 Foot Denali Pass Weather Station (and 15th summit)
• NPS Report on Rescue of Korean Climber
• Is Denali Even the Right Native American Name for McKinley?
• Highpointers Up the Butt Blog
• Scientists Say Denali Quake Triggered 1,000 Swarm Quakes in Yellowstone

Highpointers Club News

• Charlotte Observer Article on 50 Completer Douglas Butler
• Highpointer Wallet Card Show on May 23 NBC Dateline Show on 2002
• Madison Capital Times on Wendy Hecht's County Highpointing Wisconsin
• Profile of Miriam Richards Seeking to Be First Deaf 50 State Completer
• Washington Convention registration deadline is July 12

Crime

• Hiker Shoots Another Hiker After Dog Confrontration

Everest

• NY Times on Costs and Risks of Climbing Everest
• Indian Helicopter Sets Record in 23,240 Foot High Rescue
• Italian Measurements Say Everest is 2 cm Taller
• Alejandro Ochoa attains Everest summit the same day his sister Lorena wins LPGA tournament
• Bulgarian Climbers Blame Group's Division for Everest Death
• 69-Year-Old Doctor Dies on Everest
• Britton Keeshan Youngest on 7Summits
• Controversy Over Sherpa Pemba Dorji's Claim to Summit Everest in Record 8 Hours 10 Minutes
• 3 Korean Fatalities on Everest
• President of Japan Adventure Guides Dies in Descent From Everest
• Appa Sherpa Sirdar Summits Everest For Record 14th Time
• Climbers Collecting Souvenir Bones of Dead on Everest

Highpoint News

• Conservancy Buys 2,400 Acres Adjoining Mount Mitchell
• Cingular Drops Plans for Cell Tower at Newfound Gap in Smokies
• Snow Delays Gannett Search for Yet Another Week
• Body of Pilot Recovered from Mount Borah
• New Switches Cut Mount Washington Cog Rail Time From 3 to 2 Hours
• Lighter Snowpack Than Usual at Tuckermans Ravine
• Bonnie & Clyde Festival near Louisiana HP
• Maine GOP Unaminously Opposes Maine Woods National Park
• Bill Wright Claims Speed Climb of Mt Hood is 2:06
• NC Says See Smokies From Their Side After National Geographic Calls GSMNP "Ugliest"
• Black Mountain Waiver to Be Handled By Kentucky Coal Museum in Benham
• Bicyclists Abandon Death Valley to Whitney Race/Marathoners Continue

Offbeat

• Proposal To Rename Salmon-Challis NF to Sacahawea NF in Idaho
• Colorado Rounds Up 15 Abandoned Llamas That Were Scaring Hikers and Horses
• Claim For Record Formal Dinner at 22,226 Feet in Himalayas
• Jimmy Carter Recounts Kilimanajaro and Fuji Climbs in Submarine Dedication

Rainier News

• Fatality on Rainier Liberty Ridge
• Another Fatal Fall on Rainier's Liberty Ridge
• House Approves Plan to Add 800 Acres to Northwest Corner of Rainier
• Paradise to Close For Renovations in 2006 (and Jackson Center to be rebuilt)

Backcountry After 911

• Forest Service May Remove Peak One 911 Flag

Accidents on U.S. Highpoints

• Climber Falls Into 30 Foot Crevasse Below Crater Rock on Hood
• Out of Bounds Skiier Found at Hidden Lake After Night on Mount Hood
• Two 10-Year-Old Girls Spend Night Lost on Harney

Accidents on World Highpoints

• Fatality on Canada's Mount Logan
• 2 Fatalities on Elbrus
• Avalanche Claims Alpine Ski Club Secretary on Mount Ararat

Additional Accidents

• Fatality in Desolation Wilderness Near Lake Tahoe
• 11 Year Old Fatality in Ruby Mountains Near Reno
• Woman Suffering From Frostbite Rescued From Trail...she was wearing clogs!
• Hypothermia Fatality on Colorado's St. Mary's Glacier in 8 Inch Snow
• Falling Fatality in New River Gorge in West Virginia
• Heat Blamed for Big Bend Fatality
• Skiier Survives 700 Slide on Mount Shuksan in Washington
• 84-Year-Old Hiker Airlifted From Manoa Cliffs Trail in Hawaii
• Warning About Wearing Helmets After Fall on Eldorado Canyon Near Boulder, Colorado
• Glacier Grizzly Bites Jogger's Shoe
• Search Scaled Back For Soloist on Mount Sanford in Alaska
• Critical Injury as Women Glissade in Snow on Mount Olympus in Utah

May 12, 2004

Highpoint News

• Documents Shows Baseball First Played At Greylock (1791 vs. Cooperstown's 1839 origin)
• Black Mountain Waiver to Be Handled By Kentucky Coal Museum in Benham
• High Point New Jersey Monument Closed While Repairs Completed
• Crater Lake Beats Hood in 10-8 Vote For Quarter
• Rainier's Chinook Pass Opens Earliest in 23 Years
• Massachusetts Says No to Tram Up Mount Greylock

Highpointers in the News

• Charlie Winger featured on FourteenerWorld.com
• Aron Ralston's Book To Be Releast Sept. 14
• Highpointers Convention Registration Deadline is June 15

Denali

• Denali To Charge $10 For Entering Lottery To Drive in Park in the Fall
• Motivations for Climbing McKinley
• Kit DesLauriers Seeks to Be First Woman To Ski Down McKinley
• Profile of Sugar Bears Chinook Helicopters at Kahiltna's Base Camp

Everest

• Director of "Billy Elliot" Begins Shooting $100 Million "Into Thin Air"
• 50th Anniversary of K-2 Climb By Achille Coomagnoni and Lino Laceddelle

Access

• Storm King Mountain to Be Closed to Remove Unexploded West Point Ordinance
• Liability Issues Impacting Ben Nevis Trail
• Sequoia Trail of 100 Giants Closed Next Few Months

Adventures

• The Joys of Being One Of the 1,037 to Complete the Colorado Fourteeners
• Vermont Women Climb Mont Blanc in Period 19th Century Gear
• New State Park at Confluence of Missouri and Mississippi

Animals

• Griffith Park Posts Mountain Lion Warnings at Largest Municipal Park in US
• Stanford Warning About Mountain Lion Attacks on Its Dish Trail
• Mutt Rescued After 2 1/2 Hours Burried in Shasta Avalanche
• Cougar Attacks Horse in Horse in Battle Ground Lake State Park in Washington
• Bees Kill 2 Hikers in Serra do Caraca Park in Brazil

Offbeat

• Formal Request for Name Swap Between Mt. Democrat (14,148) and Mt. Republan (12,386)
• Madonna Continues Challenge of Hiking on Estate

Smokies

• ALCOA Generating in Deal to Protect 10,000 Acres Around Smoky Mountains
• Cingular Proposes Cell Phone Tower at Newfound Gap in Smokies

Lightning

• Lightning Fatality on Ben Oss in Scotland
• 2 Fatalities/22 Injuried in Lightning Strike on Gunung Rajah in Malaysia

Backcountry After 911

• Tower Climber Beheaded in Iraq In "Retaliation" For Prison Scandal
• Fort Carson Soldier Back From Iraq Fatality in North Cheyenne Canyon

Accidents

• Fatality in Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah
• Controversial Rescue After One Week in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
• Guide Charged With Culpable Homicide in Spanish Fatalities For Ignoring Snow Warnings
• 3 Fatalities on Yaku Island, Japan, River
• 3 Gallons of Water Not Enough for 4 in 100 Degree Heat in Palm Springs
• French Mountaineer Patrick Berhault Killed While Writing Book on the 82 Alpine Summits of Alps

April 24, 2004

Mount McKinley

• 950 (not counting guided trips) Registered for McKinley as 2004 Base Camps Set Up
• Climbforeducation.com Plans Dispatches from Denali
• McKinley Webcams
• Climbers to Also Pay the Doubled ($10) Denali Entrance Fees in 2005
• Climber Boast of Blazing New McKinley Route In Run for Anchorage Assembly

Highpoints

• Hood's Tilly Jane Trail Near Cooper Spur Nominated for National Register of Historic Place
• Oregonian Proposal for Mount Hood National Park
• Cesar Grajales Wins Brasstown Bald Leg of Bicycling Race (Lance was third)
• Silva's $40 High Peaks Challenge (compass and maptech cd)
• Backpacker Magazine Article on Highpointing

Everest

• Erik Weihenmayer's Blind Everest Climb Documentary Now Available on DVD
• Tips on the Difficult Task of Seeing Everest From the South
• EverestNews.Com Sponsoring New Search for Irvine's Camera on Everest

Lists

• New book out: "Utah Thirteeners"
• How California Hundred Peak Ballooned to 276

Offbeat

• 3 Caret Stone Found Crater of Diamonds
• Monkey Eating Eagle Released on Mount Apoi in Philippnes
• Chicago Lincoln Park Zoo To Make Changes After Invited Climbers Scale Ape Walls

Access

• DEC Formally Asks For Voluntary Ban Above 3,000 Feet Until June 7
• Green Mountain Club Requests Voluntary Ban on Vermont Trails in May
• Eiger's North Face Even More Dangerous As It Is Melting

Government

• Sawtooth To Drop 21 Trailheads From Fee Demo Project
• Climbers Argue Ban on Landmarks Unconstitutional Because of Separation of Church and State

Hazards

• Warning About Coyotes During Litter Season

Adventures

• Joys of Doing Trail Work on Your Vacation

Culture

• Review of Scotish Play About Yuppie Hillwalkers Bagging Munros

Technology

• Courtesy on Phoning From The Summit
• North America's Highest Weather Station (White Mountain, California - 14,249 Feet)
• Bluetooth Enable PDA's to Monitor Everest Climber Health
• South Pole Traverse Project Targets 2006 Completion of Highway to Pole

Weather

• Foot of April Snow Helps Hood's Unusually Dry Snowpack
• Hot Dry March Evaporated Rocky Snows and Raise Fire Hazards

Accidents

• 2 Airlifted From Reid Glacier on Hood West Slope
• Climbers and Dogs Airlifted in Wester Ross Scotland
• Man Killed While Attempting Rescue at Tanque Verde Falls, Arizona
• 2 Airlifted Off Liathach in Scotland
• 2 in Technical Rescue Aove I-70 on Copper Mountain in Colorado
• Climber Airlifed Off Pinnacle Mountain, Connecticut
• Boy Found Safe in Cabin on Harney's Lost Cabin Trail
• Man Found Safe at Home Following Helicopter Search on Greylock
• Fatality on Creag Meagaidh During Busy Easter Weekend in Scotland
• Another 2 Airlifted Off Hood's Reid Glacier on West Side
• 2 Rescued on AT Near Mount Washington, Massachusetts
• 2 Roped Together Climber Fatalities on Mount Aspiring in New Zealand
• Dog Saves Hiker From Brown Bear in Solvakia
• Fatality on Mailbox Peak in Washington
• Rhinos Attack Hikers in Kruger National Park
• Bernese Mountain Dog Found Week After Fatal Avalanche 14'er Huron in Coloado
• 2 Avalanche Fatalities on Serre Chevalier
• 60 Foot Fall From Moss Covered Rocky Butte in Portland, Oregon
• Snowboard Fatality on Washington's Mount Baker
• Helicopter Rescue in Los Padres National Forest in California
• Fatality on Mount Brock in Alberta's Peter Lougheed Park

April 4, 2004

Highpoint News

• Group Seeks to Name Unnamed Ansel Adams Peak for First Winter Climber of Whitney
• Frank Ashley Envelopes From Highpoints on Ebay
• Climbers Ignoring Mount Apo Ban and Leaving Trash
• Multimillion Dollar Cheaha Information Center Proposed
• View of Mount Rainier Highlights $586 Million Sea Tac South Terminal Expansion
• Article on Movie History of Alabama Hills (and history of Lone Pine name)
• Controversy Leads to Scaled Down Proposal Mount Hood Resort

Dogs

• Majority of Colorado Rescue Dogs are Golden Retrievers

Government

• Arizona Defeats Bill to Circumvent Piestewa/Squaw Peak Name Change
• Forest Service Drops Northwest Pass Requirement for 385 Sites
• Group Protests 100 Foot Cell Phone Tower Overlooking Old Faithful

Hazards

• Hantavirus Scare Following Death of Glacier National Park Deputy Superintendent in 2004

Obituaries

• PowerBar founder Brian Maxwell, former marathon runner, collapses and dies at 51

Offbeat

• Mountain Rescue Teams Upset with European Union Altitude Work Rules
• Squabble Over Type Of Ironing Board on Aconcagua in 2004
• Mars Rovers Visit Humphrey and Seven Summits
• Peter Jackson Denies Report of Hillary Bio Pic Following King Kong/Lord of The Rings
• April Fools Gags Make K2 Highest and Change Ownership of Kilimanjaro

Phenomenon

• Mauna Loa Summit Rising Following 1984 Eruption Pattern
• Big Cicada Chorus (first in 17 years) Expected in May in Smokies
• Swarm Quakes on South Sister in Oregon

Adventures

• Hempleman-Adams Sets Open Basket Balloon Altitude Record of 37,000 Ft in Colorado in 2004
• Amputee Seeks to Be Second to Complete Appalachian Trail
• Jerome Culberson Drives 126 Miles Roundtrip Each Day for 407 Kennessaw Mountain Climbs

Accidents/Rescues

• Climber Rescued After Phoning GPS Coordinates to Parents Utah's Kaiparowits Plateau
• Fatality on Colorado Fourteener La Platta Peak as Warm Temps Trigger 50 Avalanches
• Boy Crushed By Boulder at Emerald Lake in Kansas
• 2 Spend Night in Snow Trench After Getting Lost on Mount Washington
• Rescue at Base of Stairs on Harney Peak
• Fatality on Mt. Lafayette, NH
• Rescues in California 100 Degree Heat Wave
• Little Black Mountain, Kentucky, Plane Crash Kills 6
• 2 Airlifted From Olympics
• Aussie is 10th Fatality of Season on Mount Cook
• Helicopter Rescue in Flatirons
• Rescue on Orion Face of Ben Nevis