Climbing Eagle Mountain


… the summit of Eagle Mountain, which we reached at 2:25 pm on Friday, 12 November 2004. It had taken us just under two hours to hike from the trailhead to the top of Eagle Mountain. This plaque at the top of the mountain records the fact that in the 1890s it was thought that a peak in the Misquah Hills was the highest point in Minnesota, but that in 1961 a United States Department of the Interior survey team “using aerial photographs and controlled bench marks” determined that Eagle Mountain – at 2,301 feet / 701 metres above sea-level – was the true highpoint of Minnesota. The plaque also notes that “the igneous rock composing Eagle Mountain is … over a billion years in age.”