Delaware highest peak, Ebright Azimuth, bagged (447.85ft)! Finally. Second lowest highest peak beating Florida’s peak (345ft) by 102.85ft. Wow, I know 😉 The accent was without problems but the decent posed difficultly turning around(april). Two peaks left (ny and me) and the gulf coast states and east coast states will be conquered.
50 views of clouds & fog a highest peak blog
This is one of my life's goal to visit all of the highest peaks in each of the fifty states in the USA and it's territories. I am lucky enough to have April, Paisley and now Scout as well as a cast of great friends and family that tag along and share in this journey with me.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Mount Mansfield VT 4393ft
Mount Mansfield 4393ft
Me and April - 8/10/2014
The Nose/ Summit Station
Paisley, Scout, BB and Buddy - 8/10/2014
Lower Lip
Me, April, Paisley, and Scout - 6/17/2012
Father's Day weekend of 2012 was our first attempt to bag VT's highest point.......Mount Mansfield. It was a beautiful day, cloudy, but when we reached the lower lip of the long trail (the entire mountain looks like a profile of a person's face) we felt that having a squirrelly 4 year old and a 11month old in a baby bjorn was not the smartest move. Parts of the trail have some mean drop offs and some deep gaps to cross with slippery wet rocks. We had lunch on the lower lip, debating to go on or not, and turned back. We could see the Peak in our grasp. We then went to tour Ben and Jerry's to sulk about not getting the peak in a huge bowl of yummy ice cream.
FLASH FORWARD 2 YEARS
BB and Buddy came to visit and they love to explore in New England. The day before we had gone on a 6 light house driving tour on the coast of Maine. We made a day trip to VT and April and I knew we could conquer Mount Mansfield with the help of BB and Buddy. So big thanks to them for making it possible to have such a great hike on the top of VT. The gang dropped us off at the nose/summit station by way of the auto toll road.
On the way up the auto toll road we passed several gondolas just waiting for winter time, which could be here at anytime. |
There is our goal.......The Chin! |
Here is Buddy calling us stupid and asking me if we were sure we wanted to do this. |
Here is BB not happy that they were just going to leave us up there. |
We made it. Now, we had many choices on how to get back down..........we choose to hike down using the long trail ~2.5 miles some exposures all down hill......seemed like a good idea. So off we went. |
one last look at the usgs marker. Then......what have we gotten in to?!?! |
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
High Point NJ 1803ft Me, April, Paisley, Scout, and Erin Kile
We started our day in the great city of Hoboken NJ. There was a chance of rain in the afternoon so we hit the road mid morning to High Point State Park.
Check out April's best parallel parking job ever!!!! So Proud.
Loaded up and ready to go.
The trip was a easy one. Just an hour and a half and we were there. Just that morning we were looking at the nyc skyline, now wide open spaces.to the top is 291 stairs. it got stuffy and hot and mind bending the closer we got to the top.
a view from the bottom looking up
the view looking down from the top
the top was....... was.......blaaaa. I think they should redo the top to match how nice the outside is. The windows were yucky and as you can see the walls needed help.
Here is the tippy top!
Here is a view out of one of the windows at the top.
one of the windows in the middle of the tower
here are our rocks we hid. Mine was Dr Who
Paisley's was a kid with an apple
Scouts was superman with a feather wrapping around the side
April's........is.........awesome!
we hid our painted rocks and picked up some more for the next high pt
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