Regarding the discussion on highly prominent but not locally striking peaks: It may be interesting to look at the following table of the Imp values of the Top...
David Metzler ... This is a good excuse to dig up a blast from the past, the NEAREST HIGHER list by Carl Mills and David Olson from 1996 (attached). Cherry...
Edward Earl writes> ... I'll see your humbles, and raise you tuppence. (And pardon me jumping-in here, first time from lurkerdom, introduced to here via RHB.)...
Dave Metzler writes>> ... Personally, in my early bagging days, I imagined altitude first, then reckoned on what you here call prominence, and then isolation....
... I figured that this might have already been looked at. Good to see the list, although I am not as interested in the distance from a state boundary. Dave M....
... I used to think so as well; I did not like idea of making the arbitrary choices necessary for a local-relief measurement. However Imp has fewer arbitrary...
(Alun - listing isolated peaks) ... Interesting discussion. There are several Mid-West outliers that would do well in an isolation list - Magazine Mountain AR...
(Andy Martin:) ... One could also look at the distance to a summit with higher prominence. This is like (3) but without an arbitrary summit criterion. This...
(Andy) Following article is describes use of the new Brunton Sherpa digital altimeter to determine a highest point between three possible canidates. Note that...
<Dave> Elbert's high Prom rating comes largely from its being so far from higher terrain; this doesn't make it amazing to look at, but that is why it is...
I just joined this group after a tip from Andy Martin. I have been collecting peak data, and I have done a very rough pass at the peaks furthest from a higher...
I should note that at one time, "mileage" was the usual term for the concept of the distance from a peak to the nearest higher object (be it a peak, or the ...
"Edward \"7.389056099\" Earl" writes> ... Thus using neraest speck of dirt is the least arbitrary and the best choice, yes? ... Seconded, great stuff. Edward,...
(Greg Slayden - excerpt from his lower 48 list of peaks with nothing higher within 250 miles) Draft - Lower 48 USA "Mileage" list - Draft Peak Mileage...
Greetings mountain mathematicians, I worked up an "Isolation List" for the lower 48 states. Keep in mind that the following is a very prelim list, and anyone...
At the bottom of this post is my first take on the most isolated peak in 45 states. The 5 states I omitted (CT, MD, DE, RI, NJ) have peaks with the lowest...
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Roy Schweiker
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Jul 10, 2002 2:51 am
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:48:48 -0700 "Greg Slayden" ... Amazing list! ... Moosilauke ... This one is wrong - I think there are points within 25 miles on the ...
I updated the Lower-48 list that I posted yesterday, incorporating some of the mountains that Greg added on his impressive list. The following could be called...
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Roy Schweiker
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Jul 10, 2002 8:57 pm
... Presumably this is in PA? ... Remember that it is claimed that "Grove Hill" in Osceola Co. is actually the Lower Peninsula HP. -rs ...
Great "isolation" list work by Greg and Adam ! Some statistics on the "100 mile" list. [points 100 miles from a higher point] 19 are state HPs. The remaining...
Many thanks to the compilers of these lists. (Andy) ... On a more quantitative level, what's the highest prominence/ isolation ratio (for a minimum prominence...
(David Metzler) ... For the high ratios we need to set minimal horizontal separation distances, or otherwise degenerate cases could set the worldwide records. ...
... Andy is right to note that you need some cutoffs. However I was assuming Peter's proposed (if arbitrary) cutoffs of ... This eliminates examples like Lost...
I think San Jacinto wins for the US. Other non-isolated prominences would be Mt Hood, and Mauna Loa. The WW record-holder would be interesting as a sort of ...
Ran into an interesting article in The Angry Corrie, Aug 2002 issue. [the tac web page bubl.ac.uk/org/tacit/tac is down at the moment]. Chris Pearson writes of...
Just a note regarding my arbitrary cut-off points: when I suggested 1000', I wrongly guessed that the winner would be way above 1000', which was confirmed by...
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Mark D Adrian
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Jul 15, 2002 8:22 pm
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:44:35 -0700 "Edward \"7.389056099\" Earl" ... Edward, since you're pretty good with these prominence calculations, I have a question or ...
(Mark - prominence based on center of the earth) ... (Andy) Prominence is calculated just as "shoulder drop" is calculated Peak elev in sea level - key saddle...
