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County High Pointing in all 50 states
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Digest #5323
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Eastern Montana CoHPs. by "Jobe Wymore"
2
Lidar map for Florida Panhandle counties. by karrhorn

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1
Eastern Montana CoHPs.
Mon May 30, 2016 6:36 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Jobe Wymore"
My first major 2016 foray into the "Western Contigs" had me netting 19 new Montana CoHPs over the past 10 days. I had a touch of apprehension before heading out but ultimately as far as access concerns goes, Montana is light on the scale of worry. Sure things are posted but there's nobody around for miles and miles on the majority of Eastern Montana hikes. If one was to spend time tracking down ownership they would come home empty handed since the land is so vast.

I did have three contacts with owners, though. All but one went well.

Due to substantial rains I ended up having to attempt Mount Brown from a western approach since the standard northern one would present roads of "gumbo" per the locals. Down in Chester, I was referred to Bob and Diane who own the Thompson 3U Cattle Ranch to the West. They were great hosts and allowed me to park my truck at their ranch and slog up the peak from there. It was a wet hike with several creek crossings down low and with recent snowfall up high this made for a juicy hike. Thank goodness for GPS or I would have been swung around in the dense clouds up high. A ammo can register is now in place and appeared to have people signing in back to 2014.

The odd thing is that they (Bob and Diane) said about 6 years ago "a tall skinny guy from Arizona" had also climbed the peak from their place. Said he was working "on a county highpoint link from Mexico to Canada" and thought he said he was a "professor at one of the universities". Hmmm?

A few days prior to Mount Brown, my Mom and I visited McCone County and again had the pleasure to chat with the owners. This time we were greeted with skepticism as we chatted about our hobby with them at their kitchen table. Ryder Irvine, who I had touched base about this county recently, told me no big deal on this one and that the owners were easy going. Not this time.

Well, we knocked on the front door of the ranch to the north of the HP and were told to come on in. The general chitchat about our hobby started things off and the older gentleman stayed quiet but friendly. The older lady, well, not so much. She wanted to know if we were "environmentalists" out looking for "wetlands"; who were trying to shut down their place. We informed her that our visit was purely centered around our nutty hobby but she wasn't convinced since county highpointing seemed far fetched as a reason to gain access to their property.

Things softened up about 10 minutes later after that exchange and then I happened to mention how the drive into their place was quite scenic and that the hills reminded me of some of the scenic formations in Central Utah. The older woman then went on to say that they're "worthless&quot; since "you can't grow anything on them and cattle can't eat off of them". I didn't talk about them anymore.

Ultimately we got permission to drive a ranch road to the top as long as "we didn't look at anything" and on the way out a truck came on up to us head on with the driver asking us "if we were lost"? The driver, John, turned out to be the guy that Ryder, had met a couple years back and turned out to be very friendly. He said he remembered a "couple of guys who worked in the oil fields" stoping by and him letting them head on up. If you make it this far out, John is your guy.

Our 3rd contact came on Bearpaw Baldy. Post climb we were to learn that Bearpaw Baldy is also known as the "Heart of the Bear" and is a very sacred peak on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation. It's truly a gorgeous peak and even on our return drive from the Saskatchewan HP it dominated the skyline.

My climb started early on a drizzly morning climbing from the north side of the peak parking near the "West" on the topo in Section 22. My Mom stayed in the truck and I hurried on my way in the drizzle. Immediately a creek is to be crossed and due to recent rain was a tad high. Starting the hike with soaked shoes and my pants drenched to the knees was overrated.

This is a steep hike but whenever it's steep the elevation peels away fast. I stumbled upon a use trail and it forced itself up the peak with no switchbacks till breaking out of the trees on lichen covered scree. At that point it began to sleet but I pushed on making good time topping out in 45 minutes.

A few quick photos and down I went. At that point the weather had a gap of calm and I was able to spy our truck down below. The strange thing is that there appeared to be a large dark object in front of it and a few moments later this dark object started to drive off. Off and on during my decent I kept hearing a vehicle horn going on and on, blaring away and once down my Mom told me there to get in the truck fast!

Driving away she told me she had been visited by Tribal Police and they had informed her my ascent was "illegal" and she needed to "get me down fast". When she asked how, they told her to start honking the horn. They took her info and said they would be back shortly but I guess they hadn't figured I'd roundtrip the hike in 1:20 and thus be back so soon? Off we went never to run into them again.

I'm in Billings now flying out this afternoon. My second jaunt into Montana for round #2 of CoHPing is set for less than 25 days away. Hopefully I'll have as much success as I did on this trip.

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Lidar map for Florida Panhandle counties.
Mon May 30, 2016 7:06 am (PDT) . Posted by:
karrhorn
A couple of weeks I visited Escambia County, Florida. With 32 candidate areas above 280', and rumors that many were in dense florida scrub or on private land, I had expected a lot of trouble. However, just before I left, I discovered this beautiful resource for the panhandle counties of Florida: http://www.nwfwmdlidar.com/ http://www.nwfwmdlidar.com/. It has 2', and in some cases 1'(!) contours for all counties from Jefferson westward. It revealed a single relatively small area of 290' within PB's "area 4" east of Pineville Rd just south of the Alabama line, and three other areas of 288" along Albritton Rd. All were fairly simple to access, although I was glad to have snake boots in the dense wet underbrush. I will post a full report on peakbagger.

I reexamined Bay and Calhoun counties, and unfortunately even with one-foot contours, Bay County continues to have three candidate high areas, including the two on the Calhoun County line that I found unfriendly due to new ownership.


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