March 22: House Mt (5127, P = 927). This is the HP of the land S and E of Oak Creek, W of Oak Creek Village and N of McGuireville. No register. 3.5h, 5m,...
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nick scouras
jokermannn
Apr 5, 2007 8:19 pm
hi all, i was down in Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Mon. last week and was quite dismayed to find the bulk of the monument was closed. virtually the whole backcountry...
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Petter Bjorstad
natlandsfjellet
Apr 5, 2007 10:26 pm
Hi, Just read the impressive report of all the AZ peaks climbed by Bob... Congratulations.. Enjoyed the description of the top with boulders.. I am in Colorado...
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Andy Martin
oldadit
Apr 6, 2007 3:25 am
Hi folks - Am pleased to announce the final version of the Sonora Mexico mountain list. This list includes 64 peaks of proven 2K prominence, and 47 additional...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Apr 6, 2007 8:49 am
Andy's lists are correct to a fault. As such I've created a link to his Arizona and Sonora work - http://oldadit.googlepages.com/ from the prominence index...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Apr 6, 2007 10:50 pm
Artificial elevations were programmed to generate a topographic map with beautiful geometric patterns reminiscent of Islamic art. The resulting map, known as...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Apr 6, 2007 10:56 pm
In my very last message the link to one of five maps fails. Here's the fix: A "pastel" variant (white contour lines): ...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Apr 6, 2007 10:59 pm
One more time - http://www.cohp.org/temp/tiled_terrain_color_scheme_A'_scale_0.gif I am persistent if nothing else. - Adam Helman...
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Andy Martin
oldadit
Apr 7, 2007 1:25 am
... Thanks - right you are - I had the correct spelling in the footnote. The place names almost always come directly from the 1:50,000 maps, which can make...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Apr 7, 2007 3:21 am
The prime symbol in the filename was causing the hyperlink to malfunction, so explaining why I require three messages to correct one error. This file has since...
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Andy Martin
oldadit
Apr 8, 2007 3:16 am
Blundered across the website of Ronald Naar today, at http://www.ronaldnaar.nl/eng.htm. Ronald clears the World 50 threshold with room to spare: ** 17...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Apr 8, 2007 6:39 am
I thought this was completely illegal - to guide on Denali apart from the five guide services sactioned to do such by the Park Service: * Mount McKinley,...
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Roy Schweiker
accidentlwan...
Apr 8, 2007 5:03 pm
... Perhaps he was employed by one of them, or got a special permit ... There's a lot of reports of illegal activity on cohp.org also R...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Apr 9, 2007 1:47 am
Ah yes, Roy - absolutely correct --- ... .... But that's what the disclaimers are for at the bottom of every trip report page. ;-) ...
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Edward "7.389056...
edwardurl
Apr 9, 2007 3:01 am
Nielson benchmark is near a little-known summit which has about 1150' of prominence. Though in Riverside county, its proximity to I-15 near the county line...
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Andy Martin
oldadit
Apr 9, 2007 4:39 am
Forgive me if this has been already posted, but Scott Surgent's AZ top 100 prominence page on summitpost is a real handy overview to these peaks. ...
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Richard Carey
gearhead92107
Apr 19, 2007 12:21 am
Has anyone upgraded to Windows Vista and had problems with mapping software? I use Maptech quite a lot to look at US 7.5 min. topos. My net connection is not...
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Jerry Brekhus
eaglesyndrome
Apr 28, 2007 5:19 pm
Thanks to Richard Carey for alerting us to issues with Windows Vista, I was able to change the order for my new computer to Windows XP. I have learned that...
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Andy Martin
oldadit
Apr 28, 2007 6:11 pm
Noticed something interesting in the breakdown by prominence in the lower 48: Prominence: 6K 5K 4K 3K 2K 1K Count 10...
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k_over_hbarc
Apr 29, 2007 7:35 pm
... If you are supposing an approximate logaritmic distribution, as I think you are, the answer is that the ratio of the prominence cutoffs exceeds any of the...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Apr 30, 2007 3:09 am
Hello Andy - I have performed a large amount of research on this topic, carefully studying the distribution of areal prominence density (number of peaks in...
4209
k_over_hbarc
Apr 30, 2007 9:10 pm
... This is essentially what I said in my reply. ... Is there some reason you're keeping this secret for now? ... It makes sense that vulcanism would produce a...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
May 1, 2007 3:21 am
Hello Andrew, The reason why the additional parameter was not mentioned it that it would complicate and thus detract from the general arugments. Here is the...
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k_over_hbarc
May 1, 2007 4:41 pm
Comments on the mathematics: Your rho(p) is the areal density function of prominences at p. I will call this function lowercase r, and uppercase R will refer...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
May 1, 2007 8:29 pm
Hello Andrew - Numerical differentiation (by first differences) yields the same first derivative as the analytical formula I employ. Thus I stand by all of my...
4214
k_over_hbarc
May 2, 2007 12:50 am
... I just did the differentiation in Maple. Funny, it gives a result different from either of ours! It gives (using my notation): 1/r dr/dp = 1/p (a0 + 2 a1...
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k_over_hbarc
May 2, 2007 3:08 am
... Did the differentiation again by hand and got the same result as Maple, so I'm pretty confident of it. My comments on self-similarity still apply. Andrew...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
May 2, 2007 7:38 am
Hello Andrew - I returned to my original derivation and learned that I too obtained this result : (1 / rho(p)) (d (rho (p) / dp) = - (a0 + 2 a1 log p) / p...
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k_over_hbarc
May 2, 2007 2:27 pm
... OK, we agree on the derivative. ... No, I'm quite sure it's a = 3 in your equation that gives self-similarity. Look, the number of prominencess >= p in an...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
May 2, 2007 8:59 pm
Andrew - It depends on one's interpretation of self-similar. Imagine a sea of 1,000 foot prominence peaks in a square region. Imagine the same region is...
