Yet again, many thanks to all involved for an excellent set of lists and maps. One of my favourite books of lists is "World Tops and Bottoms" by Grant...
The South America prominence work is good. I especially enjoyed reading Peter Ridge's list of country most prominent points as distinct from country...
Adam Helman
helman@...
Dec 1, 2004 6:38 pm
1921
Adam, Thank you for your constructive comments about the South America maps. Your positive suggestions on the public site are preferable to negative comments...
Some thoughts while hiking today: What is a good measure of the magnitude of a pass (gap, saddle) as a destination? I considered key saddle of major peaks, but...
Dear Jonathan, I am pleased that somebody appreciates my forthrightness - a personality trait that has often gotten me in trouble, at times, at previous...
Adam Helman
helman@...
Dec 2, 2004 6:13 am
1924
Jerry suggests the following formula: minimum (height of pass, drop from the matching peak). Applying this to British data gives leaders that have a pass...
(Peter) ... (Andy) Preparing the full listing here will be an extremely arduous undertaking - the countries with low relief may turn into real nightmares. Plus...
andyadit@...
Dec 2, 2004 10:47 pm
1926
Greetings: It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood out here in San Francisco - clear, cold and deep blue sky - I should be out hiking, but instead... I have a...
Hi. I'm a lurker, but i've posted before when i'm feeling out-of-the- know and need help. Here goes another. I have downloaded Winprom. My interest with it...
(Peter Ridges) ... (Jerry) I, too, like the results of the adjusted formula. I used it to make a draft of passes in the United States. The top ten states and...
Hello allemande6, Winprom has a help menu available from the upper right of the top level menu. Furthermore, there are examples of how to perform your desired...
Adam Helman
helman@...
Dec 5, 2004 1:11 am
1930
I have done enough map study of NY to say that the P2K peaks on Aaron's map are the correct and only ones, there are a couple of ridge locations that Aaron has...
Roy Schweiker
roy.schweiker@...
Dec 5, 2004 5:57 am
1931
Edward has done well with Winprom within the resource constraints available. But unfortunately, for those of us who are less familiar with Winprom than Adam,...
Someone mentioned the Book "World Tops and Bottoms" by Grant Hutchison. I would like to purchase this, but haven't been able to find it after some web...
Richard Carey writes> ... Details as per http://bubl.ac.uk/org/tacit/tables/ regards Alun -- ale /ayl/ *n. beer brewed from malted barley and hops by top...
Hello Mark, Winelev works with digitized elevation data ONLY. An entirely different TECHNOLOGY would be required to read data directly from topographic charts...
Adam Helman
helman@...
Dec 5, 2004 8:04 pm
1935
The AAJ was nice enough to run a paragraph on my brother Tom's climb of Clay Tank Castle in the 2004 edition. It might be on page 147 ? - or just look for "Tom...
andyadit@...
Dec 6, 2004 4:00 am
1936
(Jerry) ... Another way to rank passes is by the number of humans using them (traffic volume). We might also ask they be key saddles of a certain magnitude -...
andyadit@...
Dec 6, 2004 4:00 am
1937
I must post an IMMEDIATE response to the suggestion below that my prominence lists, and hence many listings on Aaron's site, are error prone because they are...
I apologize, Jonathan, for my having misconstrued how you derive elevation data. I worked in the pattern recognition arena several years ago - and would not...
Adam Helman
helman@...
Dec 6, 2004 7:01 am
1939
Just one more point I need to clarify. I do not deny that, in areas not covered or poorly covered by SRTM, optical scanning of topos played a part in the...
... Do you know of anyone who has climbed the following? Adah Hiiilini Boot Mesa Tse Binjoobaahi Honishoosh Adeiyi Taah Hooti Adah Hiilini North All the above...
Mark, I have most of the Hawaii prominences worked out to the P=500' cutoff; and I will be glad to share that data with you. In my opinion, small areas such as...
... It depends on what you call "analyze". I know a guy who has listed most of the 200' prom peaks in Hawaii from paper maps, but has not listed their...
Roy Schweiker
roy.schweiker@...
Dec 6, 2004 10:44 pm
1943
... (Bob Packard) Do you know of anyone who has climbed the following? Adah Hiiilini Boot Mesa Tse Binjoobaahi Honishoosh Adeiyi Taah Hooti Adah Hiilini North ...
andyadit@...
Dec 7, 2004 12:36 am
1944
Would you be able to put me in touch with him? I could work by fax, or just compare notes (as in "how about this one?") with him. markv ... most ... list...
I have just uploaded two computer generated panoramas from Mount Whitney to www.sol.co.uk/v/viewfinder/stock.htm. Some photographs of some of the longest views...
Hello Jonathan, I am quite impressed by this work - a combination of art and computational science. Having been to the summit of Mount Whitney, twice, I can...
Adam Helman
helman@...
Dec 10, 2004 6:36 am
1947
Hello from Adam, I have completed the composition of my prominence manuscript. Thereby I have recruited a pair of volunteers who are willing to sit down and...
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