Book Review - You Started WHAT After 60? Highpointing Across America
"There are other books about people reaching all 50 high points, but Jane is special because she didn’t start until she was…60! I" Margo Dill
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5 Star Review - You Started WHAT after 60? Highpointing across America
"What I love about You Started WHAT After 60? is the way it is organized (I love to study organization of books–especially memoirs)."
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Book Review by Madeline Sharples
You Started What after 60? Highpointing across America is a book about persistence, perseverance, strength, athleticism, guts, obsession and in the author’s own word – addiction.
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5 Star Review "You Started WHAT After 60? "
Jane T. Bertrand’s book about her high pointing gets high marks for using her own experience to provide insights on navigating mountains and, more important, the seasons of life. - John R. Thelin
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Michelle DelPonte Reviews "You Started WHAT after 60?" by Jane T. Bertrand
This well thought out and executed book needs to come with the same warning label that I heard so many times as a child watching “America’s Funniest Videos. “Don’t try this at home"
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Over the course of this decade-long pursuit, Bertrand recruited over 50 family members, colleagues, and childhood friends to accompany her on this journey.
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Bertrand began her highpointing quest without a master plan. She had no idea how long it would take, who would go with her, how much it would cost...
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Pinpoint Map
Sixty-three people - from aged 4 months to 71 years - joined Jane Bertrand on her highpointing quest. Here they are by state.
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5 star Review
"A perfect companion book for anyone who wants to take on a new challenge." - Elizabeth Wild
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The three Trowbridge sisters had a tradition of doing something noteworthy on the important birthdays, and she was searching for what that would be.
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Bertrand initially ruled out any mountain that would involve technical climbing requiring a harness, rope, ice axe, or helmet.
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Jane Bertrand traces her love of hiking back to Girl Scout Camp Natarswi, located at the foot of Katahdin in Maine, the Northern terminus for the Appalachian trail.
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Cousin Deborah Trowbridge had agreed to climb Mt March (NY) with me but had recruited her husband and daughter as back-up. The weather caused a one-day delay in the climb, and Deborah lost her back-up team.
The difficulty of reaching Mt Arvon (Michigan) is not the challenge of the ascent but the remoteness of the location. We failed to get tourist bureau instructions that would have led us directly to the parking lot...