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Carolina Lookout Tower Challenge

Carolina Mountain Club

Showing Frederick Johnson's first ascent dates for climbed peaks (2 out of 24, or 8.33%)

Rank	Peak	Elev-Ft	Range (Level 5)	Prom-Ft	Ascent Date
11.	Camp Creek Bald	4844	Bald Mountains	1737
21.	Rich Mountain	3670	Bald Mountains
1.	Mount Mitchell	6684	Black Mountains	6089	1967-04
2.	Clingmans Dome	6643	Central Great Smoky Mountains	4503	1967-05
20.	Mount Noble Lookout Tower	3840	Central Great Smoky Mountains	120
9.	Cowee Bald	4944	Cowee Mountains	1664
22.	Moores Knob	2579	Eastern Carolina Piedmont	1439
3.	Mount Sterling	5842	Eastern Great Smoky Mountains	663
10.	Mount Cammerer	4928	Eastern Great Smoky Mountains	8
14.	Barnett Knob	4665	Eastern Great Smoky Mountains
6.	Albert Mountain	5200	Georgia Blue Ridge	200
24.	Panther Top	2293	Georgia Blue Ridge
5.	Fryingpan Mountain	5320	Great Balsam Mountains	360
12.	Little Snowball Mountain-Northeast Peak	4720	Great Craggy Mountains	80
8.	Green Knob	5080	N NC Blue Ridge Crest	760
16.	Flat Top Mountain	4558	N NC Blue Ridge Crest
23.	Rendezvous Mountain	2440	N NC Blue Ridge Crest
4.	Wayah Bald	5342	Nantahala Mountains	142
15.	Wesser Bald	4627	Nantahala Mountains
17.	Chambers Mountain	4498	Newfound Mountain Region
7.	Yellow Mountain	5127	South NC Blue Ridge Crest	1527
18.	Bearwallow Mountain	4232	South NC Blue Ridge Crest
13.	Joanna Bald	4716	Unicoi Mountains
19.	Shuckstack	4020	Western Great Smoky Mountains	300

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List Description

This list shows major summits in western North Carolina that have lookout towers on their summits. Since many peaks in the Southern Appalachians are thickly forested to the very summit, the towers on these peaks offer fine views over the trees. Many of these towers are old fire lookouts, but others were build for the benefit of tourists (including towers on Mount Mitchell and Clingmans Dome).

Note that the Little Snowball fire lookout tower has been removed from the Northeast Peak of Little Snowball Mountain and reconstructed at a valley site, the Big Ivy Historical Campus. To get credit from the Carolina Mountain Club for completing this list, you must hike to the old mountain site, plus drive to the tower in its new location and climb it there.

Links

Carolina Lookout Tower Challenge

Selected Guidebook(s) for this List

Hiking North Carolina's Lookout Towers (Barr)

Caution: These books feature many of the peaks on this list, but may not have information on all of them.

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