50 For Tibet's homestretch is coming up during the first half of the 2008 calendar year. With Arkansas, Wyoming and then Alaska on tap, the journey to visit the top of all 50 states will be coming to a close by the end of June when, if all goes as planned, Team HighPoint stands not only on highest point in the United States, but all of North America; Mount McKinley/Denali (20,320 feet).

First up of the final three is Arkansas and it's highpoint, Magazine Mountain (also known as Signal Hill) at 2,753 feet. In 1819, botanist Thomas Nuttall wrote of his observations as he traveled up the river. Near Dardanelle Rock a prominent landmark was called Magazin for its shape resembling a storehouse. That mountain is now called Mount Nebo. All of the mountains between the Arkansas and Petit Jean Rivers were called the Magazines. As Nuttall continued up river, he wrote that "a lofty ridge appears to the south called by the French the Cassetete, or Tomahawk Mountain." Later surveyors and mapmakers called it Reveille or Revolee Mountain. Eventually, each Magazine mountain had an official name with the largest of them representing the whole range.

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