Ascent of Mount Davis on 2010-11-17| Others in Party: | SOLO
----Only Party on Mountain | | Date: | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | | Ascent Type: | Successful Summit Attained | | Motorized Transport to Trailhead: | Car | | Peak: | Mount Davis | | Location: | USA-Pennsylvania | | Elevation: | 3213 ft / 979 m |
Ascent Trip ReportThird peak of the day. Well at least HP of the day. It was very cold and windy and nobody did the state HP the day i was out there. I drove up to see the main parking, HP and tower area and still nobody. I did not want to do a "drive up" highpointing when there was good elevation and excercise to be had...so i went down road to the YMCA camp and found a friendly groundskeeper who told me i could park at their horse stables and follow their property to the top.
I took his advise and followed the t-bar up hill to a steep plateau of trees and then kept bearing N till I ran into the last part of the paved road (S. Wolf Rock Rd) to the parking lot. The bushwacking was class 1 and 2 in steeper areas. At the tower the wind was 25mph constant with gusts up to 35-40 and made the tower climb a bit un-nerving and it tried to push you off the ladder. 39 degrees out. The front was still moving through so the visibility was not great. No rain at least - just cloudy and gray out. I was too cold to stay up and look around. Retraced steps and then on the Maryland HP.
I looked around the stones, plackards, and other things and found no sign in log. Bummer. The tower is over 50 above the ground.
Not a particuarly spectacular state HP but at least i had 3 HPs done this morning already, was over 1000 feet of vertical (in terms of excercise) and this "peak" gives me #13 on the state HP list and nearly completes my "Martin Luther King - I have a dream list"
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| Summary Total Data | | Elevation Gain: | 557 ft / 170 m | | Distance: | 2 mi / 3.2 km | | Grade/Class: | 1 and 2 | | Quality: | 4 (on a subjective 1-10 scale) | | Route Conditions: | Road Hike, Unmaintained Trail, Open Country, Bushwhack | | Weather: | Cold, Very Windy, Overcast
39F windy and cloudy | | Ascent Statistics | | Elevation Gain: | 557 ft / 170 m | | Extra Loss: | 50 ft / 15 m | | Distance: | 1 mi / 1.6 km | | Route: | BM to T bar to Bushwhack | | Trailhead: | YMCA horse stables 2706 ft / 824 m | | Descent Statistics | | Distance: | 1 mi / 1.6 km | | Route: | same | | Trailhead: | same | Ascent Part of Trip: PA-MA Highpoints
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