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Ameritrekking Adventures: Highpointing Michigan's Mount Arvon: Trek, #2.2
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This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 7 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet.
This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1996 visit to Michigan's highpoint, Mount Arvon. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Mount Arvon is the 13th-lowest highpoint in the 50 states. Arvon is not a mountain despite the name. It is 1,979 feet high. No climbing is involved. The challenge is its remote forest location. The visit to Mount Arvon took place in the same year as the second Ameritrek, the subject of the main book, Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. This is one chapter from that book, so you can travel vicariously to Michigan's highest point and sample the writing at the same time.
The main book resulted from an 8,000-mile, three-week road trip involving other highpoints, including attempts on thirteeners, which are mountains over 13,000 feet high. Along the way the author visited state and national parks, plus much more while driving through 21 states.
Over the years Joseph Whelan drove more than 125,000 miles—the equivalent of five times around the Earth at the equator—and spent over a year on the road. He went to 45 highpoints and many other strange and wonderful places. He continues to travel and write. Buy this sample booklet and join the adventure today!
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Ameritrekking Adventures - Joseph G. Whelan
Ameritrekking Adventures
Highpointing Michigan’s Mount Arvon
By
Joseph G. Whelan
Copyright © 2016 by Joseph G. Whelan
All rights reserved.
Gad that is great country.
—Ernest Hemingway
(on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan)
Table of Contents
1: What’s It All About?
2: Into the Heart of the Great Northern Forest
3: More to Explore
1: What’s It All About?
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If they don't have highpoints in Heaven, I'm not going.
—Jack Longacre
(Founder, Highpointers Club)
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Hello! If you’re new to the Ameritrekking and Highpointing series of books and booklets, Welcome! If you and I have met before, however indirectly, Welcome Back!
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I’ll explain what this little booklet is all about in just a moment but first I wish to be completely upfront and make the following ...
!!!!! FULL DISCLOSURE !!!!!
... which is that this short story is taken almost word for word from a full-length book entitled Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. Therefore, if you already have that book, there is no need to buy this booklet.
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And now, here are quick explanations of Ameritrekking and highpointing. What are those things? What’s it all about?
Ameritrekking is a word I made up. It happened in 1995 when my employer required me to start using up a great deal of vacation time I had accumulated over eight years of taking almost no time off. Since they were making me go, I talked my way into three weeks off to see the country by car. This became the first book in the series, Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. Along the way I realized that something above and beyond a long vacation was happening. That something I eventually called Ameritrekking. The next year I took another three-week trip (the subject of Stalking the Wild Thirteeners) and a pattern was established. It’s been over 20 years now and I’m still rolling around. So far I’ve driven over 100,000 miles and been to all of the states in the Lower Forty-Eight. I’ve spent over a year on the road. After each trip I created an extensive report based on notes and pictures I had taken along the way. Lastly I rewrote the detailed reports to create what I hope is a series of entertaining tales about a beautiful country. That is Ameritrekking.
Highpointing is a word somebody else made up. A highpoint is defined as the highest natural geographic point in a state. Each state has a highpoint, even lowly Florida. Every state is unique and so is every highpoint. Some are mountains while some are not. Some are accessible by wheelchair (once you drive to them) while some require a significant investment in mountaineering equipment and training even to attempt. I have been to 45 of the 50 highpoints. I live in Florida within walking distance of saltwater and have few illusions about my abilities. I am not a mountaineer and probably never will be a mountaineer. Nevertheless I inspired myself to climb higher than I thought possible way back when and maybe reading about my journey will inspire your own journey through life one way or another. That is highpointing.
Highpointing involves a lot of travel, much of it by car. Even if you decide to fly you’ll find that in most states airports and highpoints are far apart, so you end up
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