Hi Petter Congratulations - a fine piece of pioneering and an impressive tale of persistence. Next time I am crawling though tangled wind-felled Sitka spruce...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 1, 2009 9:45 pm
Hello folks, Centerpiece of a recent 3 1/2 week climbing trip was an ascent of Mount Olympus in northwest Washington. Please enjoy this story - ...
Over 3 days, August 29, 30, 31, I climbed UN 13747, P = 487, which I call "East Barnard", in the High Sierra of California. This summit is between Mt Whitney...
Congrats. This is a super tough list. Just a note about Warren and Turret - They do not go class 4. Both Bonney and Kelsey guides have the wrong summit in...
Hi Bob, Did you by any chance see my name on East Barnard? I did it in the '80's when I was going for everything over 13,000' in the Sierra (back when...
... Anyway, congratulations on your summer exploints. Very impressive, as always. Bill Schuler I just got to this photo in my Damavand album ;-) (Sorry Bob! I...
Bill Schuler asks if I saw his name in a register on East Barnard. As I said in my report I did not see a register. Then again, I didn't look very hard for...
Thanks to all who have sent in end of August updates. This info is at http://oldadit.googlepages.com/FRL.txt (private email) ... cutoff is, and if I submit a...
Hi Andy, Thanks for great work. I may have a few small "corrections", Paal has certainly climbed more than 50 Ultras, however, I shall make a careful review...
Hi, I am posting this news here as there is a considerable overlap between county highpoints and prominent peaks. In mid August this year, my very good friend...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 5, 2009 6:16 pm
A very significant accomplishment!! Petter - I'll relay your note NOW to the county highpoint E-group (of which you are not a member). There the topic is...
Adam, There are several COHP peaks in Norway that require climbing with a rope and proper belay. It is possible that (at least one of) the most difficult peak...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 5, 2009 7:10 pm
Hello Petter B, ... That ratio is enormous. In the USA lower 48 states that ratio is about 22:1 - not 150:1. We do not know the Alaska ratio (which might be...
Hi all: My wife, daughter, and I just got back from a 4-day Labor Day weekend trip to Taconic State Park (with a side trip to Vermont). We stayed at the Bash...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 11, 2009 12:06 am
This story is not so exciting as climbing Mount Olympus - but it DOES tie-together the various peak ascents during my August journey to Idaho, Montana, and ...
This will be of interest to those using custom topographic maps for Google maps. There is a new WMS service fro NR Canada that provides a vector graphic...
These are two peaks near Lake Shasta with greater than 2K feet of prominence. Andy Martin did a bunch of peaks in Northern California recently, but didn't ...
Appreciate the good info on these two. ... Did not have time for these, but was tempted to scout the roads east of exit 518 for Tombstone Mtn. MyTopo shows a...
To: Prominence egroup, Tom Dunigan chesimus_nyc wrote: papabear.nyc@... ... I did a test comparison at Ishpatina Ridge, Ontario HP, 47:19N 80:45W For...
Here is the web page describing the service: http://www.geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/service/toporama.html And here is a page describing the specs for the data...
(John Hamann) Title: Mojave Desert Prom Peaks Message: I’m wondering if anyone out there wants to climb some Mojave prom peaks this winter. Candidates...
Hi John - ... When the hunters show up on WSMR, someone gives them a map of the hunting limits. There are a couple hunt areas. I need to find maps of those...
I have always been skeptical of the degree of certainty of state (not to mention county) lines on the USGS maps, particularly in lightly populated mountainous...
... My understanding is that for legal purposes, all political borders are ultimately defined according to how they are staked on the ground, not how they are...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 17, 2009 5:58 pm
Thanks, Richard. Although I don't know if I'll ever attempt these peaks, I saved your route information to the hard drive because I sometimes fear that...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 17, 2009 6:05 pm
This example is of considerable practical importance since there is discussion of returning to Ishpatina Ridge for a reattempt (Bob Packard and I failed in...
Hello, While it is true that there is no dedicated repository for prominence TRs, a great deal of information on CONUS P2000s can be foud by clicking through...
... Yes, Summitpost seems to be leading the way here, and several prominence folks have put up lots of nice Trip Reports (TR), maps, and pictures. The...
