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...
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Adam Helman
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May 5, 2008 4:26 am
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...
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...
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Adam Helman
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May 7, 2008 5:59 am
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...
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...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
May 9, 2008 5:35 pm
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...
... 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...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
May 12, 2008 6:20 am
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+...
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...
Congratulations Ken !! 500 is a great milestone. Thanks also for the snow level report in NV. Dennis To: prominence@...:...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
May 12, 2008 8:43 pm
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...
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 ...
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Adam Helman
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May 15, 2008 6:57 pm
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 ...
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...
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Adam Helman
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May 19, 2008 6:39 pm
I am equally impressed - although I'll likely never get there myself. Adam H. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Adam Helman
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May 20, 2008 12:47 am
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...
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 ...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
May 26, 2008 6:21 pm
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" - ...
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 ...
