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498 Jeff Howbert
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May 5, 2002
6:42 am
After a ridiculously long wait to clear up a miniscule pile of nagging details, I've finally finalized (that's re-duh-dundant, isn't it?) the list of all peaks...
499 Jeff Howbert
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May 5, 2002
9:23 pm
The message display at yahoogroups decided to modify the URL in my previous message by appending the immediately following period, rendering it an invalid...
500 martin@...
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May 6, 2002
5:05 pm
(Ken Jones - private email) With Jeff Howbert's complete Washington list, and a few trips since my last update in November, here's my current 2000' prominence...
501 martin@...
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May 10, 2002
8:36 pm
When drafting mountain lists a side benefit is learning of previously unknown peaks, and I ran into a nice one in Baja, Volcan Las Tres Virgenes, roughly...
502 martin@...
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May 16, 2002
5:55 pm
Gordon MacLeod did a lot of work to figure out stats for him and Barb Lilley that apply to the Prominent Frontrunners list. Thanks Gordon ! Mark Nichols also...
503 martin@...
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May 16, 2002
11:16 pm
Appreciate Mark sending in some corrections to "50 finest" lists. AZ/CA hikers may want to note their lists. (Mark Adrian) ... (list) Nopah Peak Nopah Peak...
504 Edward "7.389056099" ...
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May 20, 2002
5:43 am
This morning, Sunday, 2002 May 19, at about 11:00 AM, Gordon McLeod and Barb Lilley reached the summit of Cone Peak and thereby became the first people to ...
505 Mark D Adrian
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May 20, 2002
3:55 pm
Sounds like you had a good trip. How was Hines? What peaks were they headed to next? M On Sun, 19 May 2002 22:43:05 -0700 "Edward \"7.389056099\" Earl" ... ...
506 martin@...
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May 20, 2002
4:29 pm
To: Prominence email group and others. A list of notable mountains in Baja California follows. The peaks are ordered by prominence, and is hopefully complete ...
507 Trapper & Roxanne
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May 20, 2002
4:42 pm
... Barb ... to ... Congrats to Gordon and Barb for this great accomplishment!! trapper...
508 Richard Webb
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May 20, 2002
6:02 pm
Hello I am currently closing in on my 1000th Britain and Ireland Marilyn. (929 GB and 35 on the island of Ireland. Including a round of Scottish 3000' hills...
509 Phil Cooper
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May 21, 2002
8:45 am
Can anyone tell me if they have knowledge of any kind of hill/mountain list with or without any kind of prominence criteria, for Australia and/or New Zealand? ...
510 martin@...
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May 21, 2002
4:03 pm
Phil Cooper ... (Andy) Years ago Cliff Holtz of Canada identified and reached (?) the Australian state HP. I don't have his list handy ... I did some "google...
511 Roy Schweiker
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May 22, 2002
3:32 am
... Somebody in the cohp group posted the URL of a guy from near Brisbane who visited the Australian state HP in a continuous trip, there are several photos of...
512 Edward "7.389056099" ...
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Jun 6, 2002
5:33 am
David Metzler, who has been having e-mail trouble with Yahoo, has asked me to post this on his behalf....
513 Bob Bolton
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Jun 6, 2002
6:41 am
Oh yeahhh, you guys are definitely on the right track!! :-)) I love it (big surprise)!!! I recall in our earlier conversations trying to make the case that...
514 metzlerdavid Offline Send Email Jun 6, 2002
6:30 pm
... to the ... I started out doing them by hand but recently both Edward and I have put it on the computer. One can use the digital data freely available from...
515 bigdan_boise Offline Send Email Jun 6, 2002
10:41 pm
Can you check on Castle Peak in Idaho? It is officially listed as a pillar in the USGS database. It is named on the quad. -Dan ... asked me to ... terrain. ......
516 Ivan Ash
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Jun 7, 2002
12:51 pm
Be aware that the data from USGS GNIS may be seriously in error. In the list of 4,000 footers for NC, yet to be posted, I found over 70%, maybe over 80%, of...
517 martin@...
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Jun 11, 2002
2:16 am
(David Metzler) ... Good start, but you need to put in some filter that rewards actual summits, elsewise the top 50 "Imp" in AZ might end up all clustered at...
518 David Metzler
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Jun 11, 2002
1:27 pm
Andy Martin notes: Good start, but you need to put in some filter that rewards actual summits, elsewise the top 50 "Imp" in AZ might end up all clustered at...
519 martin@...
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Jun 11, 2002
4:54 pm
(Andy) Congratulations go to John Vitz for a club rules completion of the NV top 50 prominence list. Given the infamous status of Bald Mountain NV, club rules ...
520 Peter Ridges
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Jun 11, 2002
6:44 pm
(David Metzler) ... (Andy Martin) ... Is that a bad thing? We've got at least two systems (height and prominence) that reward summits, so why not one that...
521 David Metzler
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Jun 11, 2002
7:50 pm
(David Metzler) ... (Andy Martin) ... (Peter Ridges) ... I should have been clearer in my response to Andy's posting. The procedure is, basically: (1)...
522 Bob Bolton
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Jun 12, 2002
2:20 am
<Dave M.> So not only does Imp give you a new list of "finest" peaks to climb, it tells you to climb some of them in slightly different ways, and I think ...
523 martin@...
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Jun 12, 2002
2:48 am
(David Metzler) ... (Andy) Careful there - you are drifting towards Mountaineering heresy ;) The tip top has always been the ultimate goal of the peakbagger. ...
524 Edward "7.389056099" ...
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Jun 12, 2002
5:58 am
Just a few short months ago I had no idea that the first place outside the United States that I'd be attacking with full-scale production prominence runs by...
525 martin@...
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Jun 12, 2002
3:51 pm
(Edward) ... Cut off for top 50 might be over 4,000 feet. Imagine this is the least "popular" top 50 prominence list to date. Lots of folks can claim one peak...
526 David Metzler
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Jun 12, 2002
6:23 pm
... awaited with great anticipation!! :-) ... mathematically calculate the all-around impressiveness of a mountain, not to try to quantify the view. My idea...
527 David Metzler
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Jun 12, 2002
6:25 pm
... There is in fact a growing number of mountaineers who de-emphasize summits in favor of doing hard routes, wherever they lead to. This is an effect of (1)...
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