... What a shame. Earlier this year, on a near perfect Saturday in May, I headed west through the Scottish Highlands. The car parks in Glen Coe were packed....
(Andy) Easier is coming up with the hi-low spread for the top 50 prominence in these states: State High Elev Low Elev Delta CA Whitney, 14491...
John Roper
jka.roper@...
Aug 1, 2005 7:07 pm
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... I have done some research into the highest peaks in the various states, and the following shows the highest peak, the peak that ranks #50 in elevation...
... Colorado does have a very large mountainous area (larger than any wastern state) which would bias it this way - but so does Idaho, for example. Equally...
(Greg) ... Nice work Greg. Your list points out yet another reason why Rainier is the "License Plate" peak. ... It would be fairer for CO to also cluster the...
andyadit@...
Aug 2, 2005 4:07 am
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I disagree that Colorado has a larger mountainous area than any other western state. Remember that Alaska is a western state. The peakedness of Alaska does...
Steven Gruhn
Steven.Gruhn@...
Aug 2, 2005 4:34 pm
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If the entire Northeast is one state, then it looks like this: #1 Washington 6288 - #50 Slide Mtn 4180 - Diff 2108 This still makes the Northeast's spread...
... Typo! I meant 'larger than any eastern state'. ... By 'peakedness' I meant the opposite of what we're discussing for Colorado - that Alaska has only a few...
Great analysis Greg, I continue to be amazed that different regions vary so much in terms of their prominence distribution. When I started working on this, I ...
I was looking at google maps recently, and noticed that Mount Lemmon AZ (cohp and big prominence) now has high quality satellite coverage: Mount Lemmon AZ,...
andyadit@...
Aug 4, 2005 4:13 am
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The Google Maps is nice, but since I helped make the map for a competing Microsoft web site called "Virtual Earth" I need to put in a plug for its satellite...
This is pretty/very similar to maps.google, however, sampling around a bit, I notice the pictures here are definitely older than google's offerings. And, what...
Mark Adrian
markadrian@...
Aug 4, 2005 6:43 pm
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IMHO by far the best virtual earth product is this: http://earth.google.com I found excellent 3D effects. With a more accurate underlying DEM it would be even...
Just back from trip to NW. July 19, 20, 21: Climbed Mt Prophet (7660, P = 4000) in the North Cascades of Washington. Jim Richards and Al Osborne accompanied...
... far ... West Point E=5865ft at N 64:57:15 W 144:40:43 S=2989ft at N 64:54:22 W 144:03:37 P=2876ft/877m unnamed 6000ft+ summits to SE of saddle Jonathan...
(Greg) ... its ... Thanks - looks better than google in some respects, worse in others, I hope to do a better comparison in a bit. (Bob) ... Nice trip report....
(Ken Jones - private email) ... Congratulations to the Jones gang on their African ascent. Karen joins the rest of the family in the century club - in fact,...
... I do not know who is the moderator of this group, but surely it is not very clever to allow someone with an E-mail address <babyyea20@...> to join ? ...
(Gordon) ... Edward Earl is the moderator. I have some moderator powers, but no responsibilities ;) The group is set up so anyone can join. Babyyeah joined,...
We've been busy putting up data for the past few days! New to peaklist.org are six tables of the P1500m summits for Asia: Arabia and the Middle East (14...
Those interested in taking a tour of the AZ cohps via the Google Earth program should check out the file I recently uploaded to the files section of the...
Hi all: On Saturday 8/13 I investigated 3 VA P1Ks. Two are on VA's 50 Finest List, and the 3rd would be one of the 'alternate' peaks. Morris Knob (E=4440',...
(Ryan) ... Ryan is really blazing a trail in the SE with VA. No other state in the region has even half of the top 50 visited. (Ryan) ... Sorry you went out of...
... http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/70232/an/0/pag e/0#70232 Google Earth shows these Mexican summits well, Andy, but to show up ...
My apologies for continuing this thread, knowing it is of little interest to the non computer geeks. Let me know if it is time to take it off line (Aaron -...
Got back from Poland last Sunday. Due to poor weather (heavy rain for days, which left a thick layer of snow on the Tatras above 1700m), I didn't bag all my...
Piotr Mielus informs me that he (in 2003) and Wladyslaw Cywinski (in 1990) have completed the top 50 by prominence list for the Tatra Mountains. The cut point...
... Has the access worsened? In the 1990s the Slovak side was strictly controlled, but a distinction was made between "tourists" and mountaineers. Most of...
(Bob) DE For Iron Hill I drove into Iron Hill County Park and hiked on paths in the woods N and E of parking lot and N of a housing development with tall...
