A Quick Trip to Rhode Island

We drove the RV 3 hours from NY to CT, parked in a campground, unhooked the Jeep and hit the road to the high point in Rhode Island about an hour away.

Jerimoth Hill - 812 ft.  Phew - another tough one!  :-)

It was sort of sad to hit this high point as it completes the east coast (which is good but there are no moe to do at this point).  Our next high point won't be until the middle of next year when we hit the central states.  Here is our current list (those without the ascent date are the 16 remaining peaks we have to climb in the lower 48).  

Rank	State	Peak	Elev-Ft	Range (Level 3)	Ascent Date	FullAdd
1.	California	Mount Whitney	14,495	Sierra Nevada		FullAdd
2.	Colorado	Mount Elbert	14,433	Southern Rocky Mountains	2013-09-17	FullAdd
3.	Washington	Mount Rainier	14,411	Cascade Range	2006-08-25	FullAdd
4.	Wyoming	Gannett Peak	13,804	Greater Yellowstone Rockies		FullAdd
5.	Utah	Kings Peak	13,528	Western Rocky Mountains		FullAdd
6.	New Mexico	Wheeler Peak	13,161	Southern Rocky Mountains	2013-10-01	FullAdd
7.	Nevada	Boundary Peak	13,140	Great Basin Ranges		FullAdd
8.	Montana	Granite Peak	12,799	Greater Yellowstone Rockies		FullAdd
9.	Idaho	Borah Peak	12,662	Idaho-Bitterroot Rocky Mountains	2013-08-05	FullAdd
10.	Arizona	Humphreys Peak	12,633	Colorado Plateau	2012-05-29	FullAdd
11.	Oregon	Mount Hood	11,239	Cascade Range	2013-06-01	FullAdd
12.	Texas	Guadalupe Peak	8749	Southwest Basins and Ranges	2013-10-18	FullAdd
13.	South Dakota	Harney Peak	7242	Great Plains		FullAdd
14.	North Carolina	Mount Mitchell	6684	Blue Ridge Mountains	2011-11-10	FullAdd
15.	Tennessee	Clingmans Dome	6643	Blue Ridge Mountains	2014-03-31	FullAdd
16.	New Hampshire	Mount Washington	6288	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2008-09-19	FullAdd
17.	Virginia	Mount Rogers	5729	Blue Ridge Mountains	2014-04-10	FullAdd
18.	Nebraska	Panorama Point	5426	Great Plains	2013-09-15	FullAdd
19.	New York	Mount Marcy	5344	Canadian Shield	2014-07-17	FullAdd
20.	Maine	Katahdin	5268	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2011-08-31	FullAdd
21.	Oklahoma	Black Mesa	4973	Great Plains	2013-10-02	FullAdd
22.	West Virginia	Spruce Knob	4861	Appalachian Plateaus	2014-04-27	FullAdd
23.	Georgia	Brasstown Bald	4784	Blue Ridge Mountains	2014-03-24	FullAdd
24.	Vermont	Mount Mansfield	4393	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2014-07-12	FullAdd
25.	Kentucky	Black Mountain	4139	Appalachian Plateaus	2014-04-12	FullAdd
26.	Kansas	Mount Sunflower	4039	Great Plains	2013-09-23	FullAdd
27.	South Carolina	Sassafras Mountain	3554	Blue Ridge Mountains	2011-12-02	FullAdd
28.	North Dakota	White Butte	3506	Great Plains		FullAdd
29.	Massachusetts	Mount Greylock	3487	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2014-07-28	FullAdd
30.	Maryland	Backbone Mountain	3360	Appalachian Plateaus	2014-04-24	FullAdd
31.	Pennsylvania	Mount Davis	3213	Appalachian Plateaus	2014-04-25	FullAdd
32.	Arkansas	Magazine Mountain	2753	Ozark Highlands	2013-11-06	FullAdd
33.	Alabama	Cheaha Mountain	2405	Appalachian Ridges	2014-03-20	FullAdd
34.	Connecticut	Mount Frissell-South Slope	2372	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2014-07-25	FullAdd
35.	Minnesota	Eagle Mountain	2301	Midwest-Great Lakes Area		FullAdd
36.	Michigan	Mount Arvon	1978	Midwest-Great Lakes Area		FullAdd
37.	Wisconsin	Timms Hill	1951	Midwest-Great Lakes Area		FullAdd
38.	New Jersey	High Point	1803	Appalachian Ridges	2014-07-01	FullAdd
39.	Missouri	Taum Sauk Mountain	1772	Ozark Highlands		FullAdd
40.	Iowa	Hawkeye Point	1670	Great Plains		FullAdd
41.	Ohio	Campbell Hill	1549	Midwest-Great Lakes Area		FullAdd
42.	Indiana	Hoosier Hill	1257	Midwest-Great Lakes Area		FullAdd
43.	Illinois	Charles Mound	1235	Midwest-Great Lakes Area		FullAdd
44.	Rhode Island	Jerimoth Hill	812	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2014-07-30	FullAdd
45.	Mississippi	Woodall Mountain	806	Appalachian Plateaus		FullAdd
46.	Louisiana	Driskill Mountain	535	Ozark Highlands	2013-11-07	FullAdd
47.	Delaware	Ebright Azimuth	442	Northern U.S. Appalachians	2014-05-26	FullAdd
48.	Florida	Britton Hill	345	Piedmont-Southeast Coast	2012-03-20	FullAdd

Since I've never been to RI (that I can recall) we took a trip to Jamestown and Beavertail State Park.  It was such a change from the mountain view we had just hours before.  We breathed in the salt air, felt the ocean breeze, stopped for a quick dinner and headed back to our RV in CT.  Wonderful day!

Today we're on the road to Trenton, ME (near Bar Harbor) and will stay for 2 weeks before heading to my cousin's house near Bangor.

Til next time...Happy Trails!

Wrapping up in New York

Our three weeks in NY have come to an end but the time here was fantastic.  We'll definitely be back to spend more time in the Adirondacks and Catskills.  Magnificent area!

There are so many trails in the Adirondacks you'd need to spend years here to hike all of them (sounds like a fun thing to do!).  Here's just one of the few we were able to hike during our brief time in the area.  Pharoah Mountain via Crane Pond

Of course we had to get two more high points in while close by.  We can't believe we bagged #30 and #31 already and #32 is coming up tomorrow in Rhode Island.  After Rhode Island the east coast is finished and we won't hit another one for at least a year or so.

High point #30 - Mount Frissell So Slope, CT - 2,372ft - This was a short but very steep hike to the top of Mount Frissell and then back DOWN (yes, I said down) to the highest point in CT.  This is 1 of 3 high points which are actually not on the summit.  The summit of Frissell is in MA and so you must hike down from the summit to reach the highest point in CT.  

High point #31 - Mount Greylock, MA- 3,491ft. - Unfortunately due to weather we had to drive to the top of this one.  The AT runs right past this high point so I plan to hike up to it one day.

Ausable Chasm - Adventure course, hiking and tubing all in one day!  What an adventure and amazing day!  Let's make a little note here - I'm afraid of heights!  After the adventure we took a ferry over to Burlington, VT to add even more fun to a great day.

Tom - coming up the rope ladder

We actually walked across this thing!

This is crazy!

I need to push off this rock to slide to the other side?!  What???

Minnewaska State Park - a great place for hiking and biking.

Tom - always getting the best angle for the best photo!

my new little friend (a baby duck) eating right out of my hand

Yikes!  We did NOT swim here!  :-)

Off to CT for one night while we hit the high point in RI then onto Maine.

Til next time...Happy Trails!