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[cohp] Digest Number 5206
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County High Pointing in all 50 states
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Digest #5206
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Congrats, Josh & Doug! by "fplobdell" deadbugman
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Re: Congrats, Josh & Doug! by "Scott Surgent" surgent1
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Re: Congrats, Josh & Doug! by "xander Carlson" xandathor

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Congrats, Josh & Doug!
Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:56 am (PST) . Posted by:
"fplobdell" deadbugman

Hearty congratulations to Josh Carlson and Doug Melton on their completion of the county HPs of Illinois.  Josh finished the Prairie State on Nov. 7 in Bureau County, and Doug finished on Nov. 25 in Perry County.  They are the 6th and 7th completers of the state.  Illinois has now been completed in four of its 102 counties.

Fred Lobdell
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Re: Congrats, Josh & Doug!
Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:05 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"Scott Surgent" surgent1
That's an impressive feat. Were you two working together, or just randomly
happened to complete Illinois in so close a time interval?

Scott

On 13 December 2015 at 07:56, 'fplobdell ' fplobdell@embarqmail.com [cohp] <
cohp@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Hearty congratulations to Josh Carlson and Doug Melton on their completion
> of the county HPs of Illinois. Josh finished the Prairie State on Nov. 7
> in Bureau County, and Doug finished on Nov. 25 in Perry County. They are
> the 6th and 7th completers of the state. Illinois has now been completed
> in four of its 102 counties.
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> Fred Lobdell
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Scott Surgent
Principal Lecturer & Associate Director, First Year Mathematics
Arizona State University, Tempe
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Re: Congrats, Josh & Doug!
Sun Dec 13, 2015 4:22 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"xander Carlson" xandathor
Nope, not working together. I hadn't even planned to complete Illinois this year, I was going to leave off the final county until January and make a 90 mile hiking trip out of it from my house, but then I saw Doug was hitting the state heavily and I just decided to swing by the last county on my way home from a meeting one night to finish the last one before he could get to it. I have no idea why I felt that competitive need (especially since it would be the fifth, not the first completion and I'm not the numbers guy that Adam was), maybe it was because it was my own state.

I don't think I'll be seeing many state completions over the next few years with the exception of Wisconsin because I've pretty much wiped out my center and everything else is a half day's drive just to get started. When I first started doing counties, I originally planned on doing all counties in Illinois by bike. This way it would take a heck of a long time to finish and I'd always be keeping counties close to home still open for local exploration. Then I enrolled in classes halfway across the state and it started getting maddening not going after counties I was driving passed every week.

So I made this list for Indiana, and here's my list of most enjoyable counties in Illinois in case anyone wants to make a visit that require at least a little hike and have public access (because the vast majority is just fields):
1. Gander Mountain in Lake County
2. Horton Hill in Saline County (this hike combined with Bald Knob on the approach is about the only time in Illinois it felt like a hike with the need of paying attention to avoid getting lost).
3. Bald Knob in Union County (yea it's not much of a hike, but c'mon, how much more impressive would this highpoint be than Charle's Mound?)
4. Salt Lick Point in Monroe County
5. Mason County's highpoint (This one might not be the most enjoyable of hikes given its multiple contours, but I found it to be a fun little hike, at least more satisfying than hiking Charles Mound's driveway))

Honorable mentions to Pere Marquette Park in Jersey County (multiple points and only one is pretty) and Cook County (all public til that final yard)

I think that of the 12 midwest states, half will be hard to pull a top five hikes out of (NE, KS, IA, IL, IN, OH) and the other half it will be hard to narrow it down.

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On Sun, 12/13/15, Scott Surgent surgent@asu.edu [cohp] <cohp@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [cohp] Congrats, Josh & Doug!
To: "Egroup" <cohp@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, December 13, 2015, 2:05 PM


That's an impressive
feat. Were you two working together, or just randomly
happened to complete Illinois in so close a time
interval?

Scott




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