Last weekend I made a whirlwind tour to eastern AZ and western NM to bag the Greenlee county prom points Guthrie Peak (on Friday 5/27) and Maple Peak (on Sat ...
I have recently returned from a trip to the Arizona strip where I did the following peaks. I ran into Andy Bates near the summit of Dellenbaugh and we had a...
Hi guys. Just a quickie that I can go into more detail over later, but before I leave my puttering about for the day I figure I'd better toss this out there...
I can't give an "official" source of classification of USA ranges. But in general I would consider the Bitterroots to be part of the Rockies. In fact I would...
(Mike C asks) ... (Jerry replies) The Bitterroot Range is usually considered part of the Rockies. All the ranges mentioned above are in the province shown as...
Hi, Mike, I have long been interested in the classification of mountain ranges, and I devised a world-wide system of range taxonomy. It is by no means...
... Not so much errors in some cases, as omissions. In the Interior Plateau you don't have the Clear and Marble Ranges (in the angle of the Fraser and...
... <discussion of Canadian classification> ... If you consider the Bitterroots (NW Montana) to be part of the Columbia Mtns. then they can't be in the...
From a New Mexican--- (Re: southern boundaries) If there's any oundary between the Rockies and the Sierra Madre Oriental, it must be the national border i.e....
... Do they have a "grouping", ie. a name by which they're collectively known, a range of ranges - even if only colloquially/locally? To the west of the upper...
... Yeah, I've managed to figure out that the Selkirk Mountains, and therefore the Columbia Mountains, come down as far as the Purcell Trench (the short...
It was with sadness that earlier today I learned that fellow Scotland resident Rob Milne, a regular contributor to this group, died on Everest. For more...
... I don't know of any grouping which includes all of the non-Rockies ranges in New Mexico. The mountains N of I-10, south of US60, and west of I-25 are...
This summit claim is still a bit unclear: take a look at http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/everestcopter06032005.htm if you are interested in the details....
... Is there any general name for those east of the river, which is a continuation of the Rockies? ... Right, I-10 goes just south of the end of the Colorado...
Duane Gilliland and I flew into El Paso on Friday May 20 to begin a southwest HP and Ultra prominence bagging sweep. Our return tickets were from Reno on June...
... This sort of dense geographical exposition is hard to follow even with a map. Maybe it's just being unacquainted with Canadain terminology. Also, your...
It was just pointed out to me in the thread 'Classification system for American mountain ranges?' that it is standard to have the Rockies ending on the south...
[Andrew Usher] It was just pointed out to me in the thread 'Classification system for American mountain ranges?' that it is standard to have the Rockies ending...
... [Usher] Is there any general name for those east of the river, which is a continuation of the Rockies? I guess I wasn't clear on that: there is no general...
... Just to comment that geographical naming and geological typonomy don't often have much to do with each other, or don't necessarily anyway. There's some ...
... Except the Americans who worked on the Alcan Highway, of course.... ;-) BTW in followup to previous reply on the northern limit of the Rockies, I should...
... sorry...incomplete sentence/brainfart = "east of those are the Salish Mountains"..... ... Purcell Trench, a term I'd never seen before, is the short...
... My understanding of the word 'thalweg': I think that this "valley way" refers to the line at the lowest point of the valley. When I was researching my...
[Cleven] Could there have been some journalistic confusion with the rescue off Mt Logan this last week? Logan's nowhere near as high, of course, and it was...
I noticed that the FAI site does list the take-offs at both the South Col and the Summit as under review. I think once they finish their investigation, we'll...
... Choppers can fly THAT high? I thought there was a limit well below that, even with Llamas... MC __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find...
Since I am not familiar with the western mountains I can't add anything to this debate. I am showing my ignorance but what is the official definition of a...