The disk showing the boundaries of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

We walk around in a world full of geographic points of interests.  For many of us, we do not realize this until they are pointed out to us.  That is how I was about highpoints and tripoints, but once I learned of them, I became very interested in them.

I had heard about tripoints since I started chasing down highpoints, but even then, I had not really thought about them. In fact, in doing highpoints, I am pretty sure that I have come close to several tripoints without thinking to stop.

I nearly did the same thing this summer when heading home from Spruce Knob, West Virginia.

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