Ameritrekking Adventures: Highpointing Wisconsin's Timms Hill: Trek, #2.3

By Joseph Whelan

This booklet is a sample of a full-length book.  It is Chapter 8 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 Wisconsin's highpoint, Timms Hill.  A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state.  Timms Hill is the 39th-highest highpoint in the 50 states.  The visit to Timms Hill took place in the same year as the second Ameritrek, the subject of the main book.  This is one chapter from that book, so you can travel vicariously to Wisconsin's highest point and sample the writing at the same time.

 

The main book, Stalking the Wild Thirteeners, 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!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joseph Whelan
• Release date: Aug 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393235026

Book preview

Ameritrekking Adventures

Highpointing Wisconsin’s Timms Hill

By

Joseph G. Whelan

Copyright © 2016 by Joseph G. Whelan

All rights reserved.

Wisconsin's a special place.

—Brett Favre

(Quarterback, Green Bay Packers)

Table of Contents

1: What’s It All About?

2: A Walk in the Park

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 essentially 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