| I would expect that folks on a hiking website would tend to snub mechanical/motorized means of attaining highpoints and that appears to be the case here. I was a peakbagger long before I got into highpointing so I've always leaned in the that direction but have tried to be creative with highpointing. I've hiked most of my HPs, but have biked several summit roads as well (TN, NC, SC, WV, MA). On the real easy ones (NB, KS, OH, IN etc.), I'll usually just park a few miles away and walk or park a little further away and bike. Driving up holds no appeal for me.
But that's only one aspect of highpointing. A lot of folks get into it to see the country and that's also a large part of it for me. I couldn't much care how others choose to attain HPs as it has absolutely no effect on me. The guy that founded the Club (Jack Longacre) didn't place restrictions on how to do it, so that's the way it is. Cheers. |