This weekend Dan Baxter, John Hamann and I climbed these three peaks on the California 2,000+ foot prominence list. This trip report should allow peakbaggers...
Adam Helman
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Mar 4, 2008 11:16 pm
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On Sunday March 2nd, Edward Earl and I successfully visited both the north and south summits on Lookout Mountain, WA. Jesse Duchow and Ken Small joined us on...
12 summits (9 in AZ, 2 in Mexico, 1 in CA) Feb 25: UN 4388 (P=868) and UN 4352 (P=482) in Bradshaw Mts, Copperopolis Quad. No cairn or register on either...
(Curious) ... for a week & I'm planning on doing Graham, Chiricahua, & Miller. I've checked Summitpost for routes but wondering about snow or any other...
A recent private discussion about "prominence distance ladders" encouraged me to create a web page with links to individual prominence-peak hierarchies based...
Adam Helman
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Mar 9, 2008 12:22 am
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Trip report follows, map is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/files/Mexico/elmayor.gif - Andy Trip report for high point of Sierra El Mayor, Baja...
In one of the most daring (some would say foolhardy) winter ascents in recent memory, my wife and I, plus my 6-week old daughter Lydia, bagged Mt Davis, the PA...
According to Greg's site my prominence hierarchy includes several foreign/island peaks such as Baffin Island and Cuba, I have chosen to revise it to include...
The map is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/files/Mexico/elMayor.gif I forgot to capitalize the M in elMayor.gif Note also that this map is rotated...
Hello Roy, If you provide exact home coordinates and not expunge foreign peaks I'll be happy to include this data as a new web page along mine. The most...
Adam Helman
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Mar 10, 2008 2:25 am
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<Adam> I can think of one man who is very close to, or may have already completed his entire hierarchy in the prominence-parent variant. Can anybody guess who?...
BINGO!! Yes, Bob, Gerry is a great candidate as he has climbed the Seven Summits and the ten highest peaks in North America. That gives him title to ALL of ...
Adam Helman
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Mar 10, 2008 7:48 am
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... As 2 nearby peaks are roughly orthogonal you can easily compute this if you desire, then run Greg's program to see the list of island peaks ... As someone...
... I too guessed Gerry Roach. He has in mind the following project, which is VERY conducive to completing one's home-based ladder: Climb every summit in your...
There are roughly 200 Seven Summit graduates. Those who live in cities near a world-class mountain might have "accidentally" completed their prominence parent...
Adam Helman
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Mar 10, 2008 5:44 pm
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I did some map work on this, and prepared the data file at bottom to try and fill in all the peaks between Pikes peak and Denver that will be on the "Denver 1"...
The Denver ring list is quite interesting, Andy. I see there's TWO peaks called "Green Mountain" on it. Remarkably there are TWO peaks called "Mount Whitney" ...
Adam Helman
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Mar 11, 2008 8:37 am
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... I have climbed 7 peaks on it myself ... Depending on where he lives in Boulder, Gerry's actual list may include yet another Green Mountain which is at the...
Layne Bracy and I did this a while back for ascending elevation proximity hierarchies (with minimum prominence threshold @ 300'). One thing to bear in mind is...
Layne Bracy and I did this a while back for ascending elevation proximity hierarchies (with minimum prominence threshold @ 300'). [[[[endquote]]]] The NHN300...
Adam Helman
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Mar 11, 2008 5:59 pm
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Down at the light-weight end, 10.0 miles 120' P? Federal Heights? Z13 497249E 4414384N 8.5 miles 90' P Lorreto Center? Z13 492922E 4387960N 8.16 miles 80' P...
(Gerry Roach, private email, on Denver ring 1 list) Yes, I have climbed all the peaks on that list. My finish date was May 7, 1983 when I summited Everest. Way...
Andy, others - Way to go Gerry! [endquote] Agreed. I have asked Gerry to collaborate in determining his distance-based prominence ladder from south Boulder; ...
Adam Helman
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Mar 12, 2008 5:51 am
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... I've done the first one! For some reason USGS calls this "Sentinal", any reason why? This must be from downtown, from Andy's would be more likely to...
Dear Gerry R. Are these your exact home coordinates in the URL string below? If not, please advise so John K. can amend his calculation ... and so I can...
Adam Helman
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Mar 12, 2008 5:44 pm
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It would be nice if John Kirk and I exchange links for these newly developing prominence distance web pages - referring (as I shall) to Greg Slayden's radius...
Adam Helman
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Mar 12, 2008 5:59 pm
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I like the term hierarchy - I have used the term "chain" because that's what it was called when I built it last year. The page to link to (same as the form in...
Hello John K, I'll link to your web address below, noting that the resulting list applies ONLY to residents of the six mountainous states cited. For instance,...
