Daryl 
Mount Rogers, Virginia lies at 5,729 feet MSL and is ranked #19 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 14th highpoint of 2004. Not a walk-up, Mount Rogers lies just off the Appalachin Trail (The “AT”) and requires a few miles of hiking to access. I parked at a nearby trailhead after spending … Read more
Spruce Knob, West Virginia lies at 4,863 feet MSL and is ranked #24 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 13th highpoint of 2004. This was a memorable trip because I got to drive unplowed snowy roads for miles and miles before I got to the parking lot where I slept in my … Read more
Hoye Crest on Backbone Mountain, Maryland lies at 3,360 feet MSL and is ranked #32 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 12th highpoint of 2004, and the third of the day after Ebright Azimuth DE and Mount Davis PA. This was the start of an epic week of highpointing my way down … Read more
Woodall Mountain, Mississippi, lies at 806 feet MSL and is ranked #47 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 21st highpoint of 2004. Woodall is a drive-up and since I was packing my mountaineering gear, I decided to make a bid on the north face. It was tough but I made it! From … Read more
Mount Davis, Pennsylvania lies at 3,213 feet MSL and is ranked #33 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 11th highpoint of 2004. Mount Davis despite being over 3k feet is also a drive-up to a lookout tower deep in Amish country. Davis would be my second high point of the day after … Read more
Ebright Azimuth, Delaware (Hey Joe!) lies at 448 feet MSL and is ranked #49 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 10th highpoint of 2004. Although in Delaware, Ebright is really in SW Philly. I spent a few days in upstate in Little Meadows, Pennsylvania where we lived on a century farm in … Read more
Mount Frissell, Connecticut (South Slope) lies at 2,380 feet MSL and is ranked #36in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 9th highpoint of 2004. Mount Frissell is in a cohort of states with Maryland, Nevada, and Oklahoma whose highpoints sadly aren’t at the summit of a mountain, but merely the highest point on … Read more
Campbell Hill, Ohio, lies at 1,550 feet MSL and is ranked #43 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 8th highpoint of 2004. Campbell is on the campus of a vocational school, housing a cosmetology school at the time of my visit. At the time, this was the easiest high point I’d visited … Read more
Hoosier Hill, Indiana lies at 1,257 feet MSL and is ranked #44 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 7th highpoint of 2004. At this point I had retreated from the east coast and spent a couple weeks with my brother Kevin in Columbia, Missouri. A bit lost, I didn’t want to return … Read more
Mount Mansfield, Vermont lies at 4,393 feet MSL and is ranked #26 in elevation among US Highpoints. This would be my 6th US Highpoint of 2004. After the sufferfest of skiing down Greylock the day before, we decided to snowshoe our way to the top of Vermont. This would prove to be an excellent decision … Read more
Mount Greylock, Massachusetts lies at 3,491 feet MSL and is ranked #31 in elevation among US Highpoints. This was my 5th US Highpoint of 2004 and my second highpoint that I skied after Wy’East. Although there was a closed auto road to the summit, we chose to skin up through the woods on a hiking … Read more
Jerimoth Hill, Rhode Island lies at 812 feet MSL and is ranked #46 in elevation among US Highpoints. This was the 4th stop during my cross-country trip with Teewinot and “Nancy.” At the time of my visit, the landowners wouldn’t allow access, and the “acceptable” alternative was this high point on the highway, which is … Read more
High Point, New Jersey lies at 1,803 feet MSL and is ranked #40 in elevation among US Highpoints. This, the third US Highpoint of my 2004 cross-country drive from Montana to Connecticut. This is another walk-up and is located in High Point State Park and features a 200-foot obelisk that was sadly closed when we … Read more
Hawkeye Point, Iowa lies at 1,670 feet MSL and is ranked #42 in elevation among US Highpoints. Hawkeye is located on a farm in southwest Iowa. This was my second highpoint during a cross-country trip with Teewinot and “Nancy.” This is a “jump out of the car, take a photo, leave” type of place. The … Read more
Black Elk Peak, South Dakota lies at 7,242 feet MSL and is ranked #15 in elevation among US Highpoints. I climbed Black Elk Peak, then called Harney Peak (presumably after some white colonizer asshat) with Teewinot and an ex-girlfriend as the first stop on a cross-country trip to move her from Montana to New England … Read more
Here’s some of the various and interesting seaplane bases (SPB) from FAA aeronautical charts that I found while working to get my ASES rating this year. I’m a total map nerd and can spend hours looking at maps. I’d love to develop this type of page into training materials that CFIs could use for seaplane … Read more
Carl Sagan shows how Eratosthenes 2200 years ago was able to deduce the circumference of the earth based on two obelisks 800 km apart.
Here’s a photo essay of our flight to the San Juans for lunch on a beautiful winter day!
Here’s some memories from all of the live performances I’ve seen on stage in 2025. I have a goal to see more live art this year than ever before. This includes ballet, concerts, dance, lectures, musicals, plays, basically anything that is performed on a stage. Newest photos are on top, and I put a text … Read more
