Black Mountain (KY) Climber's Log
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| mad maximus | Nothing to see ...  Date Climbed: May 22, 2009 | |
| Boring HP. Not much to see... short walk uphill. | |
| Posted May 28, 2009 5:08 pm | ||
| Redwic | Nice Way To End The Day... Date Climbed: May 24, 2009 | |
| After having already summited multiple other peaks and hiked many miles of trails earlier in the day, this was a pleasant way to end the day. Rather than drive to the summit, I walked the final 0.1-mile up to the summit area (What a workout!!! lol). I then looked for, and found, the USGS Benchmark. This was State Highpoint #37 for me, overall. | |
| Posted May 27, 2009 2:32 am | ||
| LMatallana | Amazing Race Date Climbed: Mar 14, 2009 | |
| Justin Boyle HP #6, Luis Matallana HP #7 3 of 6 HPs for the weekend. This HP does look like a construction site. | ||
| Posted Apr 3, 2009 11:50 pm | ||
| skinnywhitecomic | HP #5 Date Climbed: Aug 30, 2008 | |
| This took forever to find, because GoogleMaps got me lost. I eventually made it to the tower at 9:30 at night. But since I couldn't see anything, and it was scary being up there by myself at night, I stayed just long enough to get a picture in front of the tower and get the hell out of there. I do wish I had gotten a picture of the USGS marker. | |
| Posted Sep 1, 2008 4:34 pm | ||
| Chinigo | HP #8 - short walk Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2003 | |
| I (with my wife (Tracy) and son (Alex), then almost 3 yrs old) did this as part of our second family HP trip. Not exactly a beautiful mountaintop. | |
| Posted Aug 19, 2008 1:59 pm | ||
| kavak | Appalachia Route Date Climbed: Sep 23, 1985 | |
| My wife and son were with me on this one. They did not have any interest in the summit at the time, so I hiked the short distance on my own. When I returned there was a pickup next to my car. I went over to talk with them and they told me it wasn't safe to leave my family in the car there. I wasn't completely sure what they meant by that but we left there with somewhat of a loss of innocence in the highpointing world. | |
| Posted Jul 1, 2008 10:17 am | ||
| 2skinners | HP # 14 Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2008 | |
| Originally planned to do 3 Highpoints this weekend but weather and time became a factor. Originally was going to forget this one for VA & TN but ended up doing this one when thunderstorms and lots of rain were called for VA. My wife and I had just avoided a thunderstorm in TN and drove our way to the top of this HP. The drive was pretty, the summit was not. It still was better than Delewares' (mainly because nobody was watching me take a picture of myself up here, so I didn't have to be embarrassed) Found the benchmark under the tower. Glad to be done with this one. Alot of driving for 2 days!! | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2008 11:44 pm | ||
| Ilafan | Milk snake and coal Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2008 | |
| I liked this HP despite breaking my damn camera while climbing the fire tower. I saw my first ever poisonous snake here...a beautiful copperhead. Ooops. Not a copperhead, but still beautiful. It was a milk snake. | |
| Posted Jun 25, 2008 8:46 pm | ||
| Tracy | 19th state highpoint Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2008 | |
| I drove to the top and found a survey marker (benchmark) under the rickety old tower on what has been described as the true highpoint. Views from the top of the old tower are pretty good (the bottom ten feet of stairs are missing). There was country music blaring from inside one of the equipment shelter buildings, but no one else was around. | |
| Posted Jun 7, 2008 12:06 am | ||
| tioga | Dead Date Climbed: Apr 20, 2008 | |
| Climbed up from Rt 160 along the paved service road. Saw a van with a Nebraska license coming down as I was going up. I'm sure they were highpointers, as I am. The top was a little disgusting, but the walk through the woods reminding me a lot of Northern PA, where I am from. Everything was still dead and spring had not yet sprung on the higher elevations of these mountains. | |
| Posted Apr 21, 2008 1:39 pm | ||
| jimegan | BLACK MTN Date Climbed: Oct 25, 2007 | |
| HARD PART WAS FINDING IT ON DRIVE FROM MT ROGERS, VA. YOU SHOULD GET PRIOR PERMISSION FROM OWNERS. HP#46 | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2008 12:28 pm | ||
| eric-griz | Illegal visit Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2006 | |
| I didn't sign the waiver! Take that King Coal!!! | |
| Posted Nov 9, 2007 8:17 pm | ||
| weeds19 | Litter central Date Climbed: May 22, 2003 | |
| The summit was quite trashed on my visit, but the views were nice and litter can be picked up easily. | ||
| Posted Sep 27, 2007 12:47 am | ||
| Tbacon251 | 9-11 Memorial Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2007 | |
| Scott Shoemaker and I climbed to KY's highest point on behalf of the law enforcement climbing team, "COPS ON TOP". This was done in honor of the people who died in the 9-11 attacks as well as the law enforcement officers who lost their lives in 2007. | |
| Posted Sep 18, 2007 11:20 pm | ||
| rkrevald | Our Sixteenth HP Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2007 | |
| My dog Spanky and I made it to the top of Black Moutain, KY on a beutiful sunny day. The summit is a little dissapointing - basically an antenna farm. However, the hike up through the dense, green hardwood forest was enjoyable. Not much of a view from the top. The drive up from VA was extremely scenic. Please check out our trip report at http://50summits.blogspot.com | |
| Posted Jun 14, 2007 7:23 am | ||
| chilkoot | Not a pretty peak. Date Climbed: Feb 16, 1992 | |
| Absolutely the ugliest of the state highpoints I've been on (35). Interesting drive up from Virginia. | |
| Posted Apr 15, 2007 11:14 pm | ||
| The edge | HP #24 Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2002 | |
| Second of two... in the same day!!; | |
| Posted Mar 14, 2007 3:32 pm | ||
| lizrdboy | Fun to find Date Climbed: Nov 21, 1998 | |
| Nice part of the country. It was good to have an excuse to go there. | |
| Posted Mar 7, 2007 3:32 am | ||
| CRiedel2 | Highpoint #4 Date Climbed: Dec 22, 2006 | |
| Drove to Black Mountain from Gloucester, Virginia. Nice, scenic drive from Abingdon, Virginia. Summit leaves a lot to be desired; A small industrial wasteland up there unfortunately. Highpoint #4. | |
| Posted Dec 24, 2006 5:59 am | ||
| surgent | Yuck Date Climbed: May 25, 2000 | |
| Trashed. Maybe things have improved since. Just there to mark it off my state HP list. | |
| Posted Oct 19, 2006 8:06 pm | ||
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