Alexander County Highpoint Trip Report

Date: December 6, 2005
Author: Peter Barr

After spending the better part of the day hiking on this one earlier and not ever finding it, I followed Fred Lobdell's information that there was a gravel road all the way to the summit of Hickory Knob. I found this road as a branch off of the Tree Farm house driveway. Where it branches off can only very limitedly be seen from the house. Sure enough, it was a gravel road over five miles to the exact summit of Hickory Knob, 1933 BM and all.

Limited views only in the winter. The driveway/gravel road was gated at the road it is off of but the gate was open, as it was the last time I drove by it in August not knowing it was a path to the HP. I had a conversation with a hunter on four wheeler, who told me the home and landowner was not home and lives in another house in Statesville. I followed him back to his house and he gave me the persons name but didn't have the number. This was a waste of time, since the persons name and number are all over the posted signs. After leaving the hunters house, I returned to the gravel road. Saw three dear and an opossum.