Chip Clark - An Autobiography

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General Considerations

Summary

• Birth - June 29, 1966 in Southington, Hartford County, Connecticut

• Home - 1605 Cannery Road
              Owings, MD 20736 (Calvert County)

• Occupation - Aerospace Engineer, NAWC Pax River, MD

• Telephone - 410-286-2961, 301-757-7602 (Work Number), 410-610-3777 (Cell Phone)

• E-mail - chipclark@chesapeake.net

• web site - www.chesapeake.net/~cjclark

• Clubs - County Highpointers, Quantico Orienteering Club, State Highpointers Club, Extra Miler Club
  

• Hobbies - Hiking, Running, Highpointing, Gardening,
                  Geocaching, Genealogy, Grazing (while hiking)

• Post-Summit Reward - Vanilla milkshake

Additional Comments

        I started county highpointing in 2003 but have been a State Highpointer since 1991,
so I got a head start (32 state HPs to date). My wife Jeanne and daughters Amanda and Gabi enjoy the outdoors,
and have been to the top of a number of counties with me. Other cohp visits usually happen in conjuction with business trips.

        I would like live long enough to complete all the county highpoints, which I hope will take a few centuries!

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Outdoors / Highpointing / Mountaineering

Summary Best Hike - Hiking out from campsite to enjoy sunrise at Glacier Point in Yosemite NP. Worst Hike - I haven't had many of those. Probably the worst was getting lost in Lincoln Cunty, TN being way underprepared for the hike. (OBTW- electric fences are more painful in the dark when you're soaking wet.) Hiking Interests - Hope to complete the county highpoints in the Chesapeake Watershed area, plus any that lie near business trip destinations. I also enjoy National Parks, and hope to visit many with the family. General Geographic Interests - Chesapeake Bay Watershed Highest Elevation reached on land - 14,433 feet as Mt Elbert, Colorado (twice)

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