-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        RE: MAPS-L: U.S. county-level relief data
Date:   Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:16:38 -0500
From:   Mark A. Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
To:     'Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum' <[log in to unmask]>

The website for the County Highpointers Association seems to be
http://www.cohp.org/

This reminds me of the Extra Miler Club http://www.extramilerclub.org/
(who only set out to set foot in every U.S. county or county equivalent)
or the similar, and even less serious, group, the County Idiot's
Assocation (CIA): http://web.bentley.edu/empl/d/jdeichmann/ciafront.html
-- "It's really not an organization at all, but rather a bunch of folks
who take trips together." :-)  These were brought to my attention by the
former map librarian at the U. of Cincinnati, Richard Spohn, and by a
former reference librarian at Duke, Carol Cramer, now at Wake Forest.

--Mark
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Economics, Geology, Geography Bibliographer
Map and GIS Librarian / Public Documents and Maps Department
Perkins Library / Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0177


> -----Original Message-----
> Subject:        RE: MAPS-L: U.S. county-level relief data
> Date:   Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:45:52 -0500
> From:   Thompson, Thelma <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
>
> There are definitely people who are collecting county
> highpoints.  I am
> very aware of this since the highpointer's organization (originally
> started for those doing state highpoints) met in New Hampshire this
> year.  One feature of the meeting was opportunity for members to visit
> NH county highpoints, including the one in a game preserve
> that normally
> does not allow visitors. Quite a few were willing to pay $50
> a head for
> that priviledge.

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