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County High Pointing in all 50 states
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Labor Day accomplishments by davidwmolson2

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Labor Day accomplishments
Thu Sep 8, 2016 6:00 am (PDT) . Posted by:
davidwmolson2
This past Monday 5 Sept 2016 Labor Day I visited four (4) places.

*) High Knob, the former highest point of Fauquier county VA before the county line was redefined. - There is a private gated community on one side of it. A resident coming down the lesser-used Massanutten Mountain Drive access was kind enough to let me in. The top is a short walk from Mountain Top Road. A lady up there told me that the highest is at address #126, that a bedroom of the house is built over the Benchmark (BM) and no one is there presently.

*) Cedar Creek Civil War Battlefield south of Middletown. It was just a short distance off of my travel route, so I turned aside and read the historic signboards and stopped at the bookstore.

*) Winchester VA independent city highpoint. I followed the directions. The only thing to remark is that the rows of the orchard are turned a few degrees to the right of straight up-and-down, so you can't really "go down one row and back up another" to get the highest point. You will cover about 4 rows, and the top or bottom of the outer-most rows will plainly be off the ridge. This invokes the modified rule of Schweiker, of getting close enough, of being able to get closer if only I knew.

*) The Pinnacle, Great North Mountain, highest point of Frederick county VA.
I then drove to the west side of the Frederick VA coHP, Great North
Mountain The Pinnacle. I poked about at a Meditation Center and up Capon
Woods Resort Road before going into Capon Springs, finding the resort
south edge of the town, and asking permission. In my opinion the per-
mission won't save you from speaking with the neighbors or sheriff. If I get
stopped by the sheriff I can tell them that I've got permission, and they can
check, and only then release me.
I drove back to Capon Woods Resort Road, and drove to the end of the
road, some time >= 4:35 pm. Capon Woods Resort Road runs towards Great
North Mountain in a narrow spear of woods in-between two high-tension
power lines and their cleared right-of-ways. Somewhat further uphill
from where I parked the two right-of-ways merge.
From where I parked my car I hiked a dirt slash road that tended up
and to the left. At a spot where it faded I chose to bushwhack to the
left and got to the open ground by the north power line right of way.
I then bushwhacked up along its right-south verge until I intersected
a road running north-south. I wondered where the south direction went.
I went north, in a short distance came to a T-junction and headed up-
hill. I trudged uphill, and kept on trudging it as it headed south
sidehilling uphill. Far enough along I took a turn heading north
again. I soon became dissatisfied with the sidehilling and cut bush-
whacking uphill. I soon intersected another road, followed that to the
left north uphill to where it intersected another one and got on that
one. I took that one all the way to the radio station on top, 5:45pm.
>From the radio facility I took a side bit that went maybe 50 feet
further uphill, and then started bushwhacking about looking for the
highest ground, mostly to the north of that last radio bit. I did not
find the Capon BM.
Here I could have used looking at the satellite map beforehand, and
a working GPS. I think about 50% that I got within the highest closed
contour. It is all rather flat up there, with not much even in exposed
rock. Afterwards I posted a question to the coHP group about whether
any of them had found BM Capon, and what the top of Great North Mountain
The Pinnacle looks like.
Afterwards work: The BM should be 667 ft. away from the radio
station, at an azimuth of 65. Lat=398.586'N Lon=7826.075W.
I started my hike down at 6:10 pm. This road meets the uphill-side-
hill at a 135 turn. Going uphill that would be turning 135 to the
left. I totally used up my bottle of water. I had a time of it bush-
whacking in that last forest bit looking for my car. Once I got close it
was easy, back at car at 7:14 pm. It shows the value of measuring. I
still wonder where the south end of the previous north-south bit I en-
countered first, goes.
I drove down. I probably should have stopped at a gas station con-
venience store for refreshment. I did stop at the first McDonalds and
ordered a fish sandwich and a small drink.
On the drive home I twice munched on the sandwich I had bought after
visiting the Winchester icihp, drank a bottle of water. I got home at
10:45 pm.
I am thinking of invoking a modified rule-of-Schweiker for this coHP.
I got up there. I made a good faith effort to find the highest point and
got close. I have no reason, except the map afterwards, to think I miss-
ed the highest ground of Frederick county VA. The yellow "No Trespass-
ing" flags implying the state line were closer to the radio tower than
'667 ft.' would imply. If I had known where the highest was I would have
gone to it.

David Olson

davidwmolson@aim.com

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