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		<title>John Mitchler Acceptance Speech Video</title>
		<link>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2009/11/12/john-mitchler-acceptance-speech-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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A video of John Mitchler accepting the Jakk Longacre Award at the New Jersey 2009 convention has been added.

http://highpointers.org/?p=801]]></description>
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		<title>Autographed Ed Hillary Book Up for Auction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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The Highpointers Foundation is auctioning off a signed autobiography by Edmund Hillary.  Deadline is Friday, Dec. 18.

http://highpointers.org/?p=834]]></description>
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		<title>americasroof.com is back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[americasroof.com which has been down for more than a year because of a denial of service attack is back.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Ameren Documentary on Taum Sauk Collapse Stirs Controversy</title>
		<link>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/30/ameren-documentary-on-taum-sauk-collapse-stirs-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other newspapers are being surprised by Ameren&#8217;s P.R. push following the Taum Sauk disaster with the airing of &#8220;A New Beginning: Johnson&#8217;s Shut-ins State Park&#8221;

&#8220;A New Beginning&#8221; is, in fact, a 30-minute commercial disguised as television news. It is selling Ameren&#8217;s point of view about the Taum Sauk reservoir failure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summiting Highpoints in the Nude</title>
		<link>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/30/summiting-highpoints-in-the-nude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Adventures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian in an article by nude hiker Hank Wangford reports that Nepal is moving to ban nude summiting Everest after a climber stripped on the summit in 2006.

The Nude Mountaineering Society was created after a photo surfaced of  George Mallory and an associate at Everst Base Camp wearing jaunty trilby hats and rucksacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March of Dimes Monument Moved From Mount Mansfield Nose</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Burlington Free Press has an article on the moving of the March of Dimes monument from the Nose of Mount Mansfield to a more visible location at Mayo Farm in the village of Stowe.

Clem Curtis of Stowe worked for the construction company that put the marble &#8220;dime&#8221; and its base with stone plaques from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road to Mount Greylock Closed Until 2009</title>
		<link>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/30/802/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The road to Mount Greylock is closed and scheduled to reopen in 2009.  You can get updates on the official site which notes:

The road system is closed to all public access: automobiles, bicycles, and foot traffic for the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Roads are currently under repair for safety and access improvements. This affects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change in Kentucky Waiver Address</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State of Kentucky has taken over the Kentucky Coal Museum in Benham which is where waivers to climb Black Mountain had been housed and the state of Kentucky does not want to handle them.  You now must mail the waiver directly to the Penn-Virginia Coal Company.

Waivers are required because the highpoint is on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youtube Video of White Butte Rattlesnakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Kalinowski has a remark youtube video showing the rattlesnakes on White Butte.


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		<title>40th Anniversary of Fatal Crash on Mount Washington Cog Railway</title>
		<link>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/15/40th-anniversary-of-fatal-crash-on-mount-washington-cog-railway/</link>
		<comments>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/15/40th-anniversary-of-fatal-crash-on-mount-washington-cog-railway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press via Newsday has a story on the 40th anniversary of a crash on the Mount Washington cog railway which killed 8 and injured at least 70.



But the railway had its darkest day on Sept. 17, 1967, when eight passengers were killed and at least 70 were injured when an engine derailed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rainier&#8217;s Highway 123 Scheduled to Reopen Sept. 28</title>
		<link>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/15/rainiers-highway-123-scheduled-to-reopen-sept-28/</link>
		<comments>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/15/rainiers-highway-123-scheduled-to-reopen-sept-28/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The News Tribune reports that Highway 123 on the east side of Rainier between Paradise and Sunrise could be open by Sept. 28.

The highway that runs along the eastern edge of the park was washed out in several place during flooding on Nov. 6-7, 2006. Its closure left the park with no easy route between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Highpointing Book: A Walk Across the Top of America</title>
		<link>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/15/new-highpointing-book-a-walk-across-the-top-of-america/</link>
		<comments>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/15/new-highpointing-book-a-walk-across-the-top-of-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

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The Winston-Salem JounralNow reports on Douglas Butler&#8217;s highpointing book A Walk Across the Top of America.

Butler, 52, lives in a hillside home that overlooks acres of rolling pastures in Ashe County. He willingly uproots himself for weeks at a time to work and travel.

Trained in family and emergency medicine, Butler is a doctor for Project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governors of Maine and New Brunswick Agree to Climb Each Others Highpoints</title>
		<link>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/05/governors-of-maine-and-new-brunswick-agree-to-climb-each-others-highpoints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The governors of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, have agreed to climb each other&#8217;s highpoints in 2008 according to Mainteoday.

Premier Shawn Graham and Gov. John Baldacci have agreed to climb the highest mountain peaks in Maine and New Brunswick, together, next summer.  The peak at Katahdin is 5,267 feet and and marks the northern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stargazing in Kenton, Oklahoma &#8211; &#8220;the darkest place in the world&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/05/stargazing-in-kenton-oklahoma-the-darkest-place-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/05/stargazing-in-kenton-oklahoma-the-darkest-place-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Tulsa World has an article about stargazing at Kenton, Oklahoma, which locals say is the darkest place in the world.

The article poetically begins:
The other side of the mesa is in Colorado.

The closest grocery is in New Mexico.

The hospital, Amarillo.

The map shows that Kenton &#8212; the westernmost town in the westernmost county in the Panhandle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times Article on Wag Bags Replacing Whitney&#8217;s Toilets</title>
		<link>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/05/ny-times-article-on-wag-bags-replacing-whitneys-toilets/</link>
		<comments>http://americasroof.com/wp/archives/2007/09/05/ny-times-article-on-wag-bags-replacing-whitneys-toilets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>americasroof</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>

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The New York Times has an article on Wag bags replacing the summit toilet on Mount Whitney (and in other wilderness areas).

The article has a dramatic photo of Whitney.

The article notes:

The Wagbags (WAG stands for Waste Alleviation and Gelling) are manufactured by Phillips Environmental Products in Montana and have been adopted by agencies including the [...]]]></description>
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