Pike County Highpoint Trip Report

"Birch Gap" on Pine Mtn

Date: October 21, 2005
Author: Mike Schwartz

Previous reports are fine. When you climb over the metal stairway to put a foot on the true highpoint, notice that the benchmark sits in a hollow a few feet lower than the true summit, bracketed by two reference markers. At the summit is another reference mark pointing to the BM. Strange.