McDonough County High Point Trip Report

Date: November 11, 2001
Author: Dick Ellsworth

Proceed to route 2000E and turn left (south) onto a dirt road about 15 feet east of the power lines. Follow this road one mile south (you'll cross a bridge at 0.3 mile) to 00N/N2400 Road (the county line) and turn left (east). After one mile you're at the tricounty line and all five of McDonough's HPs are ahead, along the south side of the road, for the next two miles. At 0.3 mile from the intersection, pull into a field road pull- out and walk south to the post approximately 1000 feet south. I think this is at the east end of HP1. (I numbered McDonough's HPs 1-5 from west to east, with the little one on the east end being HP5).

We then walked about 500 feet east to HP2 (startled a young buck) then back to car.

Drive to road (E 700 Street) that splits HP3, stop at the rise and walk around both sides (there is a barking dog at the farmhouse further south on the east side of the road).

We then got back on the county line road (N2400) and drove one mile to E 800 Street. We walked into the fields for HP4 and HP5. No sign of BM 801 that I could find; think it got plowed under long ago.

Really wanted a hand level here. I thought either 1, 3, or 4 was highest.