Mason County Highpoint Trip Report
one knob (1,100+ feet) and one liner (1,120± feet)
Date: May 14, 2009
Author: Fred Lobdell
Follow Mike Schwartz's directions for these sometimes confusing county roads.
For the liner, I found Mike's "cleared swath" opposite a house that carried
up the lower slopes of the HP knob, but found it to be posted.
I continued a few hundred feet on the road, past a house on the same side
of the road as the knob, to where a woods road made a very sharp left
off the county road.
This was a convenient place to park and I was able to get my car
entirely off the county road. From here I walked the unposted woods
road back the way I had come. It ascended gently along a bench to a point
where there was a cleared swath toi the summit.
My GPS unit told me that this was the spot where the county line crossed the slope.
Even though it was unnecessary, I climbed to the top of the knob
(spot elevation 1,147) where I discovered a rectangular excavation
in the summit itself.
It appears that the owner may have been thinking of erecting some sort of
structure there, although the digging did not look fresh.
As for the second area, Mike's description of the "sharp little knob" is right-on.