A pretty popular (but related) hobby somewhat related to clinching roads/counties is peakbagging, which is climbing mountains on a list. Some of the more well-known lists are the Adirondack High Peaks, the New England Hundred Highest, and Colorado Fourteeners. A subset of peakbagging is highpointing (visiting the highest point of counties/states). I've been an avid hiker most of my life and, relatively recently, I have expanded my clinching to mountains and high points. In many cases, I've used highpointing and peakbagging as an excuse to roadgeek and I like to combine the two when possible. On more than one occasion, I bagged new counties while on a highpointing trip and I often clinch roads as a part of it.
Is anybody else on here a highpointer or interested in completing lists of mountains? To people unfamiliar with roadgeeking, I've used highpointing as a way to explain clinching roads.
I probably have a pretty decent list of high peaks I've been too given that I'm an active hiker. That said my personal high point would be Pikes Peak at 14,115 which I actually drove to via the Pikes Peak Highway.
Probably my favorite high point accomplishment with that said was completing all the road passes in the Sierras.
I'll be climbing up Mount Mansfield for my first visit to Vermont this weekend. I've previously been to Mount Katahdin for Maine and Mount Washington for New Hampshire, so this will be my 3rd high peak.
"Peakbagging." Is that anything like "teabagging?" :-D :-D
Seriously, I haven't heard this term before.
Quote from: WR of USA on July 23, 2018, 02:03:30 PM
I'll be climbing up Mount Mansfield for my first visit to Vermont this weekend. I've previously been to Mount Katahdin for Maine and Mount Washington for New Hampshire, so this will be my 3rd high peak.
You going to drive up Mansfield? :D
The climb up the Chin of Mansfield is thrilling.
QuoteYou going to drive up Mansfield?
You could somewhat, but it still leaves you 600ft of elevation short of the summit...
Quote from: hbelkins on July 23, 2018, 02:49:55 PM
"Peakbagging." Is that anything like "teabagging?" :-D :-D
Seriously, I haven't heard this term before.
I'm going to use my free pass, because that's just tasteless:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=peakbagging
Quote from: froggie on July 23, 2018, 04:18:34 PM
QuoteYou going to drive up Mansfield?
You could somewhat, but it still leaves you 600ft of elevation short of the summit...
Yeah. While it may be advertised as the summit, ha. Still need to hike over a mile each way along the ridge.
Quote from: formulanone on July 23, 2018, 04:22:03 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 23, 2018, 02:49:55 PM
"Peakbagging." Is that anything like "teabagging?" :-D :-D
Seriously, I haven't heard this term before.
I'm going to use my free pass, because that's just tasteless:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=peakbagging
It was obvious what the meaning was, but it's not a term I've ever heard used before. And getting back to the original post, I wouldn't call highpointing a subset of peakbagging, because a number of high points aren't mountain peaks at all.
Quote from: hbelkins on July 23, 2018, 07:49:07 PM
Quote from: formulanone on July 23, 2018, 04:22:03 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 23, 2018, 02:49:55 PM
"Peakbagging." Is that anything like "teabagging?" :-D :-D
Seriously, I haven't heard this term before.
I'm going to use my free pass, because that's just tasteless:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=peakbagging
It was obvious what the meaning was, but it's not a term I've ever heard used before. And getting back to the original post, I wouldn't call highpointing a subset of peakbagging, because a number of high points aren't mountain peaks at all.
My wife has a cousin on Facebook who does this, and the first thing I said was "Oh, they're peakbaggers" [followed immedaitely by a confused "wha..." sound from wife].
If it wasn't for the mob-rule site, I wouldn't have heard of it, either.
The only state high points I've visited are Spruce Knob (West Virginia) and Mount Washington (New Hampshire). Those knowledgeable about such things will recognize what those two points have in common and thus why I've been to those two.
I've been to the top of Pikes Peak via the cog railway, but that's not a state high point. I would like to go to the top of Mauna Kea, but I don't anticipate visiting Hawaii again in the near future.
Yes I'm interested but have anxiety related to the activity. In Oregon we generally have the high Cascades (Hood, Jefferson, 3 finger jack, Washington, Three Sisters, Broken Top, Diamond Peak, McLaughlin) and Wallowa's 9ers (17) are the popular ones. I personally hope to be able to do South Sister soon.
Edit: gosh my grammer sucks sometimes.
I keep track of all the mountains I've summited as well as state highpoints. County highpoints are just too tedious...
I've actually doubled my visited state highpoints this summer...from 3 (Clingmans Dome TN, Mount Mitchell NC, Brasstown Bald GA) to 6 (Taum Sauk Mountain MO, Charles Mound IL, Timms Hill WI)! Not confident that I'll ever climb some of the more difficult ones like Denali, Granite Peak, or Mount Hood, but who knows. I love hiking enough.
For state highpoints, I have been to:
Mount Greylock (Massachusetts)
Mount Washington (New Hampshire)
Mount Mitchell (North Carolina)
Clingmans Dome (Tennessee)
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 01, 2022, 03:54:38 PM
For state highpoints, I have been to:
Mount Greylock (Massachusetts)
Mount Washington (New Hampshire)
Mount Mitchell (North Carolina)
Clingmans Dome (Tennessee)
What is it with you zombifying old threads, especially when we have had more thorough recent discussions on this?
Quote from: Rothman on September 01, 2022, 09:42:55 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 01, 2022, 03:54:38 PM
For state highpoints, I have been to:
Mount Greylock (Massachusetts)
Mount Washington (New Hampshire)
Mount Mitchell (North Carolina)
Clingmans Dome (Tennessee)
What is it with you zombifying old threads, especially when we have had more thorough recent discussions on this?
I was about to say that it was a new thread that got merged with an old one, not an old one that got revived... but this isn't even that thread, even though it's on the same topic.
Quote from: Rothman on September 01, 2022, 09:42:55 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 01, 2022, 03:54:38 PM
For state highpoints, I have been to:
Mount Greylock (Massachusetts)
Mount Washington (New Hampshire)
Mount Mitchell (North Carolina)
Clingmans Dome (Tennessee)
What is it with you zombifying old threads, especially when we have had more thorough recent discussions on this?
I searched for a more recent thread but couldn't find one
Here's one that you even posted to already:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=31073.0