Horry County Highpoint Trip Report

unnamed (120+ ft)

Date: May 17, 2007
Author: Fred Lobdell

We followed Ken Oeser's excellent directions and parked about where he and, later, Ron Tagliapietra parked. Scaling distances from the topographic map, it appears that the small "summit" contour is a hair more than 0.2 mile from the road, say 1000 to 1100 feet. The swamp was dry as of this writing, so we bushwhacked generally due north until we hit the water-filled ditch mentioned in Ron's report. We found it curious that this ditch is not mentioned in Ken's report. We were counting paces and we felt that this ditch was in the neighborhood of 750 feet, plus or minus 50 feet, from the road. Thus, the summit contour lies north of the ditch. Brian was up for jumping the ditch but that was beyond my abilities at my present age and we returned to the car.

We also drove west on the paved road around the right-hand bend to the dirt road on International Paper Company land, going northeast and mentioned by Ken in his report. The gate was open and the only sign prohibited timber cutting, so we drove up this road about 0.3 mile to where there was another dirt road heading back toward the area of interest. Taking this road puts one past the water- filled ditch. But from here it was not at all clear where the HP was. Future visitors attempting this HP should bring a GPS unit. We feel that this HP can not be claimed without GPS confirmation of the location of the 120-foot. contour on the ground.