This list is online at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/files/Arizona%20Prominence/ third item listed. (Mark D Adrian - AZ 1K prominence list in text...
In a message dated 5/4/2008 3:34:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Hi Andy, I can't access the Excel file via the URL, because I need to register with Yahoo and...
Good to hear from you, Gordon. I also cannot access the Yahoo! files system and have given up trying to whenever somebody posts stuff there assuming rather...
Adam Helman
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May 5, 2008 4:26 am
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I did the south summit today. Snow patches appeared at 2400 feet and soon covered the road. Never needed my snowshoes. Eric Noel's description on SummitPost...
I've been using the wrong home coordinates all-along for the past several years for multiple purposes related to county highpointing and prominence-related...
Adam Helman
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May 7, 2008 5:59 am
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In view of recent threads regarding the prominence parents of island HPs, and how to draw cell boundaries around islands in an archipelago, now is the time for...
Standard, Wet Earth Model assumed here. With a Dry Earth Model I suspect that one simply uses the submarine topography to ascertain long-range marine...
Adam Helman
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May 9, 2008 5:35 pm
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... Some of the Scottish examples raise eyebrows here. There is a big fault system crossing Scotland. This divides the Highlands into two with distinct ranges...
In determining the prominence cell parent of Ben Nevis (and preparing for more work on Europe), I found a major error in the Europe ultra cell map. The...
Hey all: I'll be in the Bay Area this week and am planning to visit some county hp's, but was also wondering about Loma Prieta. From looking at SP, it seems...
Hello Layne, My visit to Loma Prieta is featured in this report - http://www.cohp.org/personal/Loma_Prieta.html The relevant quote, Walk the final 100+...
Adam Helman
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May 12, 2008 6:20 am
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I'm happy to be able to report that I reached my 500th P2K summit on Kumiva Peak on Saturday. And my first was only in November of 1973! At this rate, I...
Excellent, Ken. Using P2K summits as the definition for a mountain worthy of inclusion in your long-term count is a valid concept. Do you know how many P300...
Adam Helman
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May 12, 2008 8:43 pm
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Congrat's Ken, happy 500th. I was thinking of Grant for Memorial day but you mentioned that there is still a lot above 9500 and dealing with snow on Grant...
Way to go Ken! I'll be hitting a smaller milestone, #300 fairly soon & I know how much work it takes to get that many, let alone 500. I was in the Reno area...
I have recently retrofitted the National Elevation Dataset (NED) into Winprom and performed a few test runs. From the quality of the results, I can say that ...
It would be interesting to learn the interpolation (fitting) algorithm NED employs to obtain data points based on the nearest map contours. Noise is absent ...
Adam Helman
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May 15, 2008 6:57 pm
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Hi, On May 3rd. I climbed Dufourspitze with my son Paal Jorgen. We skied to 4350 meter, then climbed the west ridge to the summit. This is a very nice alpine...
Petter, Congratulations on a fine ascent of a most impressive peak! Reading your report brought back memories of my climb of the Dufourspitze in 1993. To this...
I am equally impressed - although I'll likely never get there myself. Adam H. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Adam Helman
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May 19, 2008 6:39 pm
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Hello from Adam, Topozone.com enabled map views using NAD27 CONUS and WGS84/NAD83 datums. Both latitude/longitude and UTM grid coordinates were supported. With...
Adam Helman
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May 20, 2008 12:47 am
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I'd be interested in your answers to these questions: 1. How many years passed from your first peak with prominence above a certain threshold until your first...
I climbed the Brothers with a Mountaineers Club climb on 5/24/8. Rainy weather was forecast but we experienced excellent sunny skies. Lena Lake is about 5 to...
(Jaime Viñals - private email) I want to inform you that finally I could arrange my first part of expeditions for this year to try to climb as much as I can ...
Very well organized site - and in English as well as Spanish. I turned to a "random" web page - namely Baffin Island as one of the "Seven Islands" - ...
Adam Helman
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May 26, 2008 6:21 pm
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UT prominence trip, May 2008 Andy Martin, Mark Nichols, Richard Joseph and Dean Molen report by Andy UT Notch Peak 5-14-2008 A good map of the route is ...
I was recently in Sherman county OR, which theoretically has 3 candidates for the most prominent point: Wolf Mtn, prom = 312 to 352 Gordon Ridge, prom = 311 to...
I recently returned from a peak bagging trip to eastern WA and northern OR. Among the hills I climbed were the following county prom points for which I can ...
