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in reply to: Final count: 37 (2003) #49193

My hiking partners and I are super patriotic, and I would love to see all 48 summits with flags next year.

Have you considered contacting the AMC and seeing if they would be willing to at least help you advertise the event? It looks like we really only need about 10 or 11 more teams to get all the summits covered.

Also, we do quite a bit of photography on the tops of the mountains. I was wondering if we could strategically place place people with telescopic lenses on certain mountains that overlook others (Carrigain, Washington, etc) so we could get some wide shots of the other flags. It would require some long distance lenses, I realize, but it would make for an interesting album if we could get it.

Of course, some the tree covered summits would be difficult to get, but you can see from my photo on Tripyramid that we just lashed the pole to a tree so it was visible:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/modules.php?set_albumName=album87&id=aaa&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

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in reply to: Peak count (2003) #49074

Peak Name(s): North and Middle Tripyramid

Rigging: Aluminum poles from Sam’s Club. We lashed it to a tree with a bungy cord.

Comments: The three other hikers we met on the trail were really excited about what we were doing. I hope no one minds, but I also flew an Israeli flag to remember the tragedy that is going on there right now. I thought about flying a Liberian one as well, but I couldn’t get my hands on one.

I like the idea of keeping this thing going and I think the Telegraph article will give us some impetus next year. I’m interested to see just how many flags got up this year. I know that Galehead didn’t have one because that group cancelled.

I’d really like to see someone with a powerful telescopic lens on their camera get on Carrigain or another central mountain and get pics of the others from a distance.

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in reply to: Update on Peaks signup (2003) #49042

I carried the flag to the top of Middle Tripyramid. I had it up from 12-1, but then clouds blew in and I took it down to head for the ground. I brought my binoculars with me, but I didn’t see anybody with a flag up on Tecumseh or the Osceola’s. I took pictures anyway, and we’re going to see if we can pick the flags out.

Also, I was originally part of the group that was going to put a flag on Galehead, but we had to change our mountain at the last minute, so there was no one on Galehead this year that I know of.

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