(Mark Nichols) With all this talk about Antarctica a couple questions occurred to me. #1. I am told much of the Antarctica is covered by 2 miles of ice. How...
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Howbert, Jeff (SEA)
peak.list@...
Sep 6, 2001 1:55 pm
A leading candidate for the most prominent unclimbed summit in Washington is described in the attached trip report. For the impatient, the peak is the ...
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John & Karen Roper
roperk@...
Sep 6, 2001 4:08 pm
For the two of you who may be interested, the following is the topozone site for the (not officially named) Picket Fence (possibly WA's greatest P peak yet...
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Howbert, Jeff (SEA)
peak.list@...
Sep 6, 2001 8:46 pm
On Sept. 3, 2001 I updated the online version of my Master List of peaks in Washington. It is accessible at http://howbert.netherweb.com/mountains. Most of...
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Bob Bolton
rfbolton@...
Sep 7, 2001 3:42 am
Jeff, how can I obtain the database? :-) ... From: Howbert, Jeff (SEA) To: 'PeakJunkie@...' ; 'Peakaddict@...' ; 'mblanton@...' ;...
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Andy Martin
martin@...
Sep 7, 2001 6:02 pm
Bob Martin trip report to a CO "50 finest" peak. (CO prominence list) 2 areas 15/22-14S-102W Fish Creek 14S102W 2,640+ 7,040- (40) Snyder Flats From: Bob...
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Andy Martin
martin@...
Sep 19, 2001 5:39 pm
To: prominence group, Alan Dawson, Grant Hutchinson John Roper has completed his quest for the 2,000' prominence peaks of WA. It is doubtful he will have much...
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John Vitz
johnvitz@...
Sep 25, 2001 9:25 pm
The following are some notes concerning a number of Utah's Fifty Finest prominent peaks that I did on a recent trip. American Fork Twin Peaks: I was able to...
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Andy Martin
martin@...
Sep 25, 2001 10:11 pm
(John Vitz) American Fork Twin Peaks: I was able to drive my Tacoma to about 10000 feet using the Mary Ellen Gulch road. From there, it is an easy climb (2 ...
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Andy Martin
martin@...
Sep 28, 2001 5:55 pm
(John Roper) ... (Earlier) ... Too bad. Any idea who got there first ? Hopefully it made an interesting adventure for you. We are starting awfully late in this...
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Edward "7.389056099" ...
esquared@...
Sep 29, 2001 6:55 pm
Quite some time ago, there was a poll suggesting that members should be able to upload files. Several people voted for it, and none were opposed. Accordingly,...
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Andy Martin
martin@...
Oct 1, 2001 4:58 pm
(Andy) ... (John Roper - completes list for first 10) ... Mount Rainier 1870 August 17. Hazard Stevens and PB Van Trump Mount Baker 1868 Edmund T....
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Bob Bolton
rfbolton@...
Oct 2, 2001 2:35 am
Edward, As you know I set up the poll, and I have no objection to closing it. Everyone please take note: We have 20MB of free file space and 30MB of free photo...
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Edward "7.389056099" ...
esquared@...
Oct 2, 2001 11:16 am
(John) Has EE finished his work on the Nevada list? That should up my total a bit. (Andy) Not sure, but his preliminary computer list is attached. Similar...
(Ken Jones) On my recent trip to southern Oregon (and northern California) I got two more Oregon top 50 prominence peaks (Eight Dollar Mtn and Mt Scott). This...
Those interested in computing their prominence "Century Club" tally of peaks with 2,000' or more of prominence will not want to overlook the county high points...
... Mount Grafton's prominence is 3257'. It just barley misses the 50 finest. Below is Winprom's determination. Note, however, that to claim it you must go ...
Prominence folks--a while back I posed the question of the most prominent unclimbed peak in the world. Well, the question intrigued me enough to make a study...
... My atlas shows a Mount Kirkpatrick (4528m) at exactly the same location as Mount Miller, to the accuracy to which I can read the map. Is it possibly the ...
Prominence folks--As mentioned in my previous post, here is a table of the most prominent peaks in Antarctica. The table should include all peaks that have a...
Prom folks--here are Eberhard Jurgalski's comments on the post I made yesterday. I present these comments mostly unedited, but since I actually disagree with...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 30, 2001 7:08 am
Dear prominence group, I have digested with rapt attention the various e-mail messages within this ongoing thread as regards identifying the greatest...
(Adam) ... The highest unclimbed peak is ill-defined and, as time goes on, will only become more and more ill-defined, because it depends on what you call a ...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Oct 30, 2001 3:54 pm
Dear Edward - We all know about how prominence is able to successfully evade the question of "what is a mountain". Nevertheless it is well that you reminded us...
The Antarctica vs China topic could be debated forever, but let me toss in my two cents anyway. (Adam) Then, given that money, free time, and climbing skill ...
It's interesting to look at the history of the high-prominence climbs. Before 1953 one can look at the progression of the highest prominence climbed to that...
Oops! Eberhard notes that I used an outdated value for Puncak Jaya (= Carstenz's Pyramid, HP of New Guinea) in my previous post. The more recent, accurate...
... Vinson Massif itself has "varied" in elevation by as much as 800 feet; I've seen figues as high as 16864 feet (5140m). However, all figures I've seen are ...
Edward correctly notes that the height of Vinson started out measured at over 5000 meters (from crude overflight data), then migrated down to the currently...
(Dan Robbins - peaks slighted by the ID prominence list) As far as prominence and county list go, they do tend to de-emphazize the Sawtooths to some degree,...
