Ameritrekking Adventures: Highpointing Texas's Guadalupe Peak
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 26 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have the book, don't buy this booklet.

This short story tells the tale of the author's hike to the top of Guadalupe Peak in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas. Guadalupe Peak is the Texas highpoint, or highest naturally occurring geographic point in the state. The elevation is 8,749 feet above sea level. Starting from the campground of the remote and beautiful National Park, the climb was a half-day walking adventure on a beautiful summer's day in 1995. The hike took place on the return leg of an 8,000-mile vacation that took the author through 23 states. The long cross-country drive he called an Ameritrek and after the first trip he started exploring the United States year after year in other Ameritreks, eventually driving over 100,000 miles. Along the way he visited the highpoints of 45 states. Texas was the second one.
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Ameritrekking Adventures: Highpointing Texas's Guadalupe Peak
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 26 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have the book, don't buy this booklet.

This short story tells the tale of the author's hike to the top of Guadalupe Peak in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas. Guadalupe Peak is the Texas highpoint, or highest naturally occurring geographic point in the state. The elevation is 8,749 feet above sea level. Starting from the campground of the remote and beautiful National Park, the climb was a half-day walking adventure on a beautiful summer's day in 1995. The hike took place on the return leg of an 8,000-mile vacation that took the author through 23 states. The long cross-country drive he called an Ameritrek and after the first trip he started exploring the United States year after year in other Ameritreks, eventually driving over 100,000 miles. Along the way he visited the highpoints of 45 states. Texas was the second one.
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Ameritrekking Adventures: Highpointing Texas's Guadalupe Peak

Ameritrekking Adventures: Highpointing Texas's Guadalupe Peak

by Joseph Whelan
Ameritrekking Adventures: Highpointing Texas's Guadalupe Peak

Ameritrekking Adventures: Highpointing Texas's Guadalupe Peak

by Joseph Whelan

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This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 26 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have the book, don't buy this booklet.

This short story tells the tale of the author's hike to the top of Guadalupe Peak in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas. Guadalupe Peak is the Texas highpoint, or highest naturally occurring geographic point in the state. The elevation is 8,749 feet above sea level. Starting from the campground of the remote and beautiful National Park, the climb was a half-day walking adventure on a beautiful summer's day in 1995. The hike took place on the return leg of an 8,000-mile vacation that took the author through 23 states. The long cross-country drive he called an Ameritrek and after the first trip he started exploring the United States year after year in other Ameritreks, eventually driving over 100,000 miles. Along the way he visited the highpoints of 45 states. Texas was the second one.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940151113199
Publisher: Joseph Whelan
Publication date: 07/09/2015
Series: Great American Road Trips , #3
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 467 KB

About the Author

Joseph Whelan is a Florida author who mainly writes travel memoirs and novels of speculative science about intelligent dinosaurs. He also writes short fiction and anything else that he feels moved to share with the world.
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