I did not receive any messages from this forum for the entire 5 days that I was prominence-peakbagging in Arizona. This message tests whether something is...
Adam Helman
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Nov 3, 2008 5:04 am
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As Adam is concerned about lack of reports, I'll send one from Sept. that I've been too lazy to write up about my Andes trip. The N Plattekill/Pisgah pair...
Hello I like this for its audacity and the creative approach to acclimatization (the whole thing took 4 weeks or so). Regards Rob Woodall, UK A LIGHTWEIGHT...
Nice story, Robert - I enjoyed reading ALL of it. The American-British language mismatch suggests that you describe what is meant by "Gucci Trainers". I assume...
Adam Helman
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Nov 4, 2008 11:40 pm
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Adam wrote ... "fellrunner" is someone who runs up and down hills rather than hiking big mountains at a slower pace. Yes, that's us :-) ... doing Aconcagua...
Hello from Adam, I am corresponding with Jack Bennett, the only person to have completed the Canada province highpoint list. His son Tom plans to climb Barbeau...
Adam Helman
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Nov 5, 2008 5:43 pm
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This trip report describes my 5-day trip bagging Arizona prominences - http://www.cohp.org/personal/Arizona_Fall_2008.html The two highlights (apart from...
Adam Helman
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Nov 5, 2008 10:05 pm
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Hello Dave, A lot of people would like to nail Orizaba's summit elevation to within a window narrower than a few hundred vertical feet. This is especially true...
Adam Helman
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Nov 11, 2008 5:28 pm
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I will in two weeks. Please keep in mind that GPS elevation requires correction with Mexican vertical datum (I don't know if it has a name, but I downloaded a...
... I believe Orizaba _has_ already been measured by GPS. I can't provide a URL, but if you surf around on Jonathan de Ferranti's viewfinder site it says 18491...
Hi Rodulfo, Modern GPS units (example Garmin), do calculate elevations relative to a "model of the Mean Sea Level" called the Geoid. This concept is defined...
Petter---does a Garmin really let you use a nonspheroidal geoid, or does it just use the standard spheroids? Looking at the Garmin website suggests the latter....
David, This topic is somewhat involved, we may move it off-(group)line.. It looks to me that Garmin steadily improves its approximation of the WGS84 Geoid, ...
Hello Adam-- The debate regarding the elevation of Orizaba is interesting. A group of 3 of us (my wife Stacey who've you met and a friend from residency in...
I am very fascinated by Jerry's work on this topic. A natural extension of this concept would be determine the top few summits in each state as measured by...
Hello John Sype, The figure of 18,491 feet has recently surfaced independently of your most recent note - and sounds low enough as to NOT be an intentional ...
Adam Helman
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Nov 12, 2008 3:22 am
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The 18,491 elevation as cited on peaklist and JdF's website is from Stephen Brown's GPS survey and is not independently derived. I remember looking at about a...
The 18,491 foot figure also appears in The Finest Peaks. However in THAT case the elevation was taken from your website, Aaron, peaklist.org - and so is not an...
Adam Helman
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Nov 12, 2008 8:06 am
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... Isn't this true only if the readings are truly independent? Several readings taken close together timewise probably are not. -rs ...
(Forwarded to this E-group on behalf of Dave Covill). ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Adam Helman
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Nov 12, 2008 6:23 pm
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Dave Olson really flooded us with water dividers to split states into regions. Thank you, Dave, for all those suggestions. While I focused on simply choosing...
AR 75, listed to 500' 8 Jerry Brekhus ** 8 Betty Brekhus ** 5 Edward Earl ** AZ 15 Bob Packard, 1995 May 8, Greenlee Bob Martin, 1996 May 1, Navajo Andy...
... These totals for the SE USA are so low I wonder why you bother posting them. Anybody who has done Spruce Knob would have 1 in WV - why list it? In fact...
... Originally I published results only for states that were completely listed. But then a few people submitted totals for other states. Sometimes I asked them...
________________________________ From: Robert W Packard Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:28 AM To: esquared@... Cc: cohp@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
Bob Packard, Gerry Roach, Ken Jones and I have just spent an enjoyable week on Taiwan, climbing Yu Shan, P3952m, #27 on the World Fifty Finest list, and Syue...
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