Abajo Peak is the 10th most prominent peak in UT and, until I climbed it on 2004 Sep 4, the most prominent peak in the state I had not yet climbed. From...
... Time to become a believer in GPS ;-) I've made this mistake, more than once storming along a jeep track the wrong way in the rain. Of course the faster you...
(Scott Holzhauser, private email) The following paragraph is for you to disseminate as you see fit. It's great news. "Access to Culebra Peak, Colorado's...
andyadit@...
Sep 8, 2004 4:08 am
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Here are some notes on my latest Colorado/New Mexico trip. Donna O'Shaughnessy and Dick and Barb Sheets accompanied me on parts of this trip. C50 - Colorado...
This is indeed one instance where a GPS unit would have been quite handy. Edward Earl enjoys using map and compass skills - but when it comes to safety in a...
Adam Helman
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Sep 10, 2004 1:06 am
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... the night ... Notes like this bug me. Wouldn't it be more useful (and take fewer bytes) to say "The fee is $20 each (or whatever $$)..."? ...
Roy R Schweiker
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Sep 10, 2004 1:25 pm
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(This) bothered me as well. I do NOT want to spend $50 (?) to stay a night in some ranch-based bedroom, along with a superfluous (meat-based?) dinner and...
Adam Helman
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Sep 10, 2004 3:31 pm
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(Andy) Regret that I'm unable to get current Culebra fee info from Scott - details follow. Hopefully this info will be online prior to next summer. However,...
andyadit@...
Sep 12, 2004 11:46 pm
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Wow, Bob Bolton!! Eight ULTRA summits in Eight days!! This is Surely one for the record books.... we should introduce a new prominence FRL category in...
Adam Helman
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Sep 13, 2004 3:16 am
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(The term "Ultra" refers to a peak with at least 5000 feet of topographic prominence). Labor Day week had long been planned as a Colorado 14er week with my...
<Adam> This is Surely one for the record books.... Adam, I was just happy to join you for your Utah completion, and was fortunate that weather and other...
A prominence outing in northern New Mexico Andy Martin, Sept. 10, 2004. This write up summarizes a recent hiking expedition to several of the higher prominence...
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Sep 13, 2004 5:32 pm
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(Bob Bolton - private email) ... Welcome to the century club Bob ! Bob has climbed many county highpoints in WA and OR, where 2k+ peaks abound. He has recently...
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Sep 13, 2004 7:09 pm
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Yesterday went to wikipedia.org, intending to add a definition of Prominence to this online encyclopedia. Much to my surprise, Mouser Williams mouser @...
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Sep 14, 2004 9:57 pm
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(Bob Bolton, private email) ... 29 of ... Have updated the appropriate info, and added a "200 finest" category. Think I'll be able to come up with a count for...
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Sep 17, 2004 4:13 pm
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<Andy> **200 Finest of Lower 48 states. Cut point UT Twin Peaks 3,649' prominence. **96+ Bob Packard I just developed my own spreadsheet of the 200 Finest, and...
On pages 50 to 69 of the October 2004 National Geographic is an article titled "Indians of the Sierra Nevada". The area featured contains the #5 prominence...
andyadit@...
Sep 21, 2004 5:52 am
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I look forward to the October issue of the National Geographic, Andy. In fact, it arrived today in my snail-box ... and I merely have to remove the brown...
Adam Helman
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Sep 21, 2004 6:36 am
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... Adam and I (and I'm sure also Bob P) would love to bag Cristobal Colon. The only reason we've never planned a trip to do that is because Colombia is ...
... me too, if you go someday, I'd love to join in. (or other trips on the Earth's Finest 50 for that matter) ... < multiple horrors snipped > BUT not until...
(Edward - private email) ... The long dirt road should be no problem for passenger cars, except for the dust, and the slow speed needed on the washboard...
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Sep 21, 2004 4:24 pm
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It is a shame about the security situation. It has been noticed - by Basque prominence authority Xavier Eguskitza - that Cristobal Colon is, theoretically,...
Hi, I just climbed this peak last Sunday. Route description, trip report and a few pictures at: http://www.ii.uib.no/~petter/mountains.html A few more pictures...
Did anyone watch Nova last night? It was on theories of the earth's formation - how the moon formed, how the earth got water and how early life appeared (much...
Indeed, Aaron. As the moon slowly pulls away from Earth, tidal bulges diminish as the inverse third power of the distance because the derivative of the moon's...
Adam Helman
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Sep 30, 2004 12:28 am
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Hi Adam, Well said Gordon...
Gordon J. MacLeod
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Sep 30, 2004 1:16 am
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:38:15 -0700 Aaron Maizlish ... No, but I did read something recently in an obscure and often refuted book : The Beginning 1 In the...
markadrian@...
Sep 30, 2004 2:52 am
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Route descriptions, Trip reports (brief), as well as access information and GPS measurements of 6 Greek Ultras are now available: Olympos (Mytikas)...
I think that if the authors of Genesis had presented the creation as "nobody really knows...." (at the time of writing nobody really did know), their work...
Prominence folks---an update on what I have been doing with spire measure lately. Although limited somewhat by a move (back home to Albuquerque, New Mexico) I...
