Now that you are actually able to travel around VT again, the Green Mtn NF has been closed to hiking pending assessment of conditions This would affect Mts...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 2, 2011 5:49 pm
If you provide a reference source I can check repeatedly for the re-opening until my October trip is imminent. As you know, Gillespie, Abraham and Ellen are...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 4, 2011 1:13 am
A SPOT-signal from Duane Gilliland at 2:29 p.m Pacific Daylight Time has the identical coordinates as the summit of Mount Spickard. ...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 4, 2011 4:32 am
Will somebody who is more versed in the internal working of wikipedia than myself please examine this web page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabox - and...
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rick shortt
crshortt
Sep 4, 2011 4:44 am
I believe I have corrected that unfortunate little blurb by creating an account. Would love to bag this one some day. I've been near here going to Gros Morne...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 4, 2011 5:11 am
That was extremely quick, Rick Shortt. Thank you. The peak looks really mellow; and as it's a rare treat to get a peak with P = E (i.e. an island or...
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rick shortt
crshortt
Sep 4, 2011 5:39 am
Perhaps deceptively mellow. The Long Range is very plateau-like but quite rocky and cut by steep sided gorges and lined with cliffs. The Cabox is fairly remote...
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Dean
drdlm
Sep 4, 2011 6:29 pm
Congrats to Bob & Duane. Kudos for an amazing accomplishment. Dean Molen...
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Trapper Robbins
trapperrob
Sep 5, 2011 6:07 pm
Bob & Duane -- Congratulations!! Excellent completion and really great news! hoot! trapper & roxanne [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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gregslayden
Sep 15, 2011 2:51 pm
Just a quick note for those of you who use Peakbagger.com and might have been wondering what happened to the site over the past few days. Let's just say for...
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Lee Newton
mountaingoat...
Sep 15, 2011 8:12 pm
In various lists of prominent peaks, I note that islands are not treated consistently. As an example, some websites (eg peaklist.org) consider Cyprus as part...
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Peter Ridges
ridgesuk
Sep 17, 2011 10:43 am
Lee- I agree. I have occasionally tried to draw up lists of parents of island high points and I've tried to use this principle. With hindsight, I could...
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Roy Schweiker
accidentlwan...
Sep 17, 2011 4:01 pm
... Horrors! There are mathematicians here! ... Using underwater contours is indisputably better as it allows you to calculate "true" prominence of islands...
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Petter Bjorstad
natlandsfjellet
Sep 17, 2011 7:35 pm
Lee and Pete, This topic has been discussed in depth previously. We also had a rather long discussion when establishing the prominence lists for Europe. After...
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E. Jurgalski
humby692002
Sep 17, 2011 8:00 pm
Lee, I agree with you completely! If prominence islands work on land it should also work below sea level, despite it would be quite difficult in some cases to...
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Edward "7.389056...
edwardurl
Sep 17, 2011 8:44 pm
I have studied the issue of water saddles and island prominence parents quite extensively. Fortunately, there is a simple and unambiguous theory for that, ...
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Peter Ridges
ridgesuk
Sep 19, 2011 3:13 pm
Edward- Thanks for this excellent summary. So the key question in joining, say, Hawaii, to a continent is "what is the longest bridge required?" rather than...
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Edward "7.389056...
edwardurl
Sep 19, 2011 4:08 pm
... No, the key question in minimum spanning trees is "what is the minimum total bridge length required", not "what is the longest bridge required"? ... I...
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Peter Ridges
ridgesuk
Sep 19, 2011 5:26 pm
I suspect that Edward has already done this exercise. But here is a list of prominence parents for those summits in the World's Top 100 that are the high...
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Edward "7.389056...
edwardurl
Sep 19, 2011 9:48 pm
... No, actually I haven't; though I'm contemplating a Winprom rewrite that could do it automatically. ... Here's a correction. The parent of Gunns would be...
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Lee Newton
mountaingoat...
Sep 20, 2011 10:50 pm
Dear All What an interesting set of responses! Edward, sorry that I missed that the topic had been discussed before but I only joined the group last year. As a...
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Lee Newton
mountaingoat...
Sep 20, 2011 11:15 pm
Actually I just checked what I read about the prominence of Brenta from Petter / Edward. Assuming we are all on interpolated prominence now, the height is...
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Petter Bjorstad
natlandsfjellet
Sep 21, 2011 9:30 pm
Hi Lee (and others!) I note that you would like to include Pico Ruivo and Newtontoppen, then exclude the highpoint of Cyprus. This is perfectly fine, a small...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 22, 2011 6:31 pm
I just returned from a P4000 foot peakbagging trip and was delighted to read the entire thread about a consistent determination of parents for island...
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R Webb
fasgadh2
Sep 23, 2011 7:08 pm
... Yes, I have. Certain inconveniences like having to do sentry duty and lugging a heavy WW2 German rifle up the hill with you. Quite fun climbing out of a...
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Trapper Robbins
trapperrob
Sep 23, 2011 7:33 pm
Greatly enjoying the island prom discussion. One minor tangent that feeds into Adam's discussion on theoretical purity vs. practicality. ... I actually think...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 23, 2011 10:49 pm
I'll interject yet another sub-tangent of related content as it too considers peaks with summits below 0 feet elevation. What is the prominence of the most...
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Roy Schweiker
accidentlwan...
Sep 23, 2011 11:20 pm
... For a diver, wouldn't it make more sense to bag the deepest holes? ____________________________________________________________ 60-Year-Old Mom Looks 25 ...
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Adam Helman
helman@...
Sep 23, 2011 11:44 pm
I agree with Roy S. This proposal creates a pleasing symmetry wherein "upwardly mobile" individuals seek the highest ground; while "dumpster divers" plumb the...
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Trapper Robbins
trapperrob
Sep 24, 2011 6:53 pm
... Agreed. Just like cavers, bagging the deepest hole would absolutely make more sense. But I'm not sure we should expect divers to do what makes the most...
