I have some preliminary results of my work on prominence for eastern Canada (provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island,...
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andyadit@...
Oct 3, 2003 11:10 pm
(Greg Slayden, Eastern Canadian Prominence list, private email) ... Appreciate the info. With both maps giving Carleton 2000' of prominence we will go ahead...
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Roy Schweiker
roy.schweiker@...
Oct 4, 2003 5:07 am
I believe the one you list as Sommet Rond is where the Mont Sutton ski area is ... So can Aaron find the information to make another map :-) ... the ... Me...
(Roy) So can Aaron find the information to make another map :-) ... WELL, The seven points south of the Saint Laurence donąt really justify their own map. If...
Help me out with this one, prominencytes... Say Peak A is 500 ft. Peak B is 501 ft., 20 miles due north along a ridgeline from Peak A. The saddle between...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 4, 2003 6:28 am
Hello Aaron - The greatest diversity of applications to prominence theory accrues once the concept that prominence only describes geological features is...
... Careful! Peak A's prominence is 100': its own elevation, 500', minus the A-B saddle, 400'. ... This brings up a sensitive point about prominence which...
Great work, Greg. It looks like the parent (NPN) of Mount Caubvick is one of the Montana summits (Mount Cleveland?). That's weird- how many summits on the...
Great work, Greg. It looks like the parent (NPN) of Mount Caubvick is one of the Montana summits (Mount Cleveland?). That's weird- how many summits on the...
Adam gave a very nice response to Aaron's question about wider applications of prominence-type ideas. A few comments. [Adam] ... The generalization in fact is...
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andyadit@...
Oct 7, 2003 3:40 am
(Aaron) ... (Andy) Well, the peaks seem to be useful locations for all sorts of communication towers and observatories - these folks find it useful to be...
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andyadit@...
Oct 9, 2003 3:09 pm
Last night I had the chance to steal a couple hours at the map library. Took the opportunity to investigate some maps of Hungary and Greece. The Hungarian...
... even ... Suppose ... Andy, For information on Mt Olympus, see http://www.peakware.com/encyclopedia/peaks/photos/olympus3.htm. I would be surprised if the...
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andyadit@...
Oct 14, 2003 10:06 pm
Ryan Richardson wiricha2@... (email to Edward and Andy) I have attached a comma separated value file with VA's 50 finest, plus the near misses....
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Roy Schweiker
roy.schweiker@...
Oct 15, 2003 9:16 pm
Interesting that cutoff prominence for VA is nearly the same as for NH, a much smaller state ... Hancock, Mount |1240|4400+20|Mount...
Those of you who care about such things might be interested in my little research into the official height of Mt. Whitney (or you might be groaning, not this...
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Steven Gruhn
Steven.Gruhn@...
Oct 21, 2003 12:35 am
I am planning on climbing Whitney on Saturday. I'll take a look for the benchmarks on the top. Steve. ... From: Aaron Maizlish...
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andyadit@...
Oct 22, 2003 4:23 am
To: prominence egroup prominence@yahoogroups.com Michael Kelsey Subject: Michael Kelsey and the FRL Recently I ran across the 4th edition of Michael Kelsey's ...
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Steven Gruhn
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Oct 22, 2003 7:45 pm
I have been doing some work on parentage recently. Does anyone know whether Mentasta Pass or Broad Pass is the key saddle for Mount Hayes, Alaska? Steve Gruhn...
Steve--the two saddles are tied to within the precision of the 1:63K USGS maps. Mt. Logan gets the lower saddle, Mt. Hayes the higher one, whichever is which....
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Adam Helman
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Oct 22, 2003 9:55 pm
Aaron - I will be happy to host your beautiful Alaska prominence map. Please check tomorrow sometime to verify it is sitting at cohp.org . So happens that I in...
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andyadit@...
Oct 23, 2003 1:15 am
(Petter - private email) ... Believe Eberhard Jurgalski posted following draft in December 2001. This will be new info for folks that joined the prominence...
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andyadit@...
Oct 23, 2003 1:15 am
(Steve) ... (Andy) It is is tie on the quads (Healy B-5 & Nabesna D-6): Mount Hayes 106 Mount Hayes C-6 11,482+ 2,350- (50) Healy B-5 & Nabesna D-6 With 50...
I think I saw an elevation for Mt. Everest of 29,035 when I was there 3 yrs ago - It has grown! It seems that there is, however, some reluctance to admit to...
... The northern reaches of the Continental Divide are a morass of equal-elevation saddles in which it's very ambiguous as to which saddle goes with which...
Subject: Re: [prominence] Mount Hayes, Alaska Map Online Thanks for the corrections, I have updated the map accordingly. Adam, if you are contemplating doing...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 23, 2003 7:18 am
Aaron, I have been using the Alaska DeLorme atlas all along!! In conjunction with the on-line maps at topozone.com, this combination proves sufficient to ...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 23, 2003 7:42 am
Hello Aaron - In my last message I quoted you as saying "I would not be surprised if there were one or two P5000s that I missed." Unfortunately the italics I...
