http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/ Topographic prominence discussion Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:58:47 GMT dillmore http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5805 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5805 I was able to fit some prominence peaks into some recent family trips. October 17, 2009 Little Pisgah Mountain (4,412', P1752) NC and Southeast 50 finest The Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:10:38 GMT Robert W Packard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5804 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5804 It's November, so I thought I'd head south for a few AZ summits. I had 4 on my to do list. Nov 1: Climbed Pinyon Mt (5268, P=868), south of Roosevelt Lake. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:46:52 GMT wererichertoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5803 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5803 ... I am surprised that nobody in this group has yet mentioned the Nike Oregon Project, which started out as a high profile project to train American runners Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:59:52 GMT gabriel.couet@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5802 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5802 IF this technique of using hypoxic tents etc.... were truly of benefit ... It might be for this reason that the technique isn't widely used in mountaineering, Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:36:41 GMT Adam Helman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5801 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5801 [Roy S wrote]: Personally if I was interested in high-altitude climbing and wasn't limited by a job, instead of living at sea level I would live someplace like Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:44:03 GMT Roy Schweiker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5800 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5800 ... Hopefully they only accept competent mountaineers because you don't use your acclimation days to practice technique and get to know party members And you Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:27:01 GMT gabriel.couet@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5799 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5799 It probably combines aerobic training in gyms with hypoxic equipement as well as sleep in hypoxic tents. Both are mechanical ways (by providing air with lower Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:16:03 GMT Adam Helman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5798 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5798 This website offers climbs and treks in the Peruvian Andes with roughly one-half the standard amount of time required merely to acclimatize - Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:20:08 GMT Adam Helman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5797 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5797 Bob Packard and I had a great time bagging seven desert peaks - with one of them as "dessert" 8-). Here's my trip report - Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:08:51 GMT redsplashman23 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5796 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5796 I have put together a page for California P2K peaks on SummitPost: http://www.summitpost.org/list/567643/California-2-000-ft-Prominence-Peaks.html I also have Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:39:39 GMT Adam Helman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5795 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5795 We've seen this before - a full-scale P2000 foot cell map for the entire western USA is simply too large for displaying on a standard monitor. However Eric Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:38:16 GMT Eric Noel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5794 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5794 Actually, just for the sake of precision I will point out that the highest contour on 5822 is a 20 foot increment 5820+ contour rather than a 5800+40 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:16:15 GMT Bob Bolton http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5793 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5793 Roy, good point about measuring the height of Indian Rock. When we first got there Don ran a 100-foot tape measure over the side toward the 5819 BM. He didn't Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:16:40 GMT Roy Schweiker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5792 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5792 I congratulate Bob & Don (& Ardis) for their work here, the scan with the level from the top of the pinnacle is a good indication there are no higher objects Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:56:19 GMT drdlm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5791 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prominence/message/5791 Good effort Bob and Adam. Another prominence peak addict missed you by one day on Wah Wah HP. That was Greg Jagielski who now has 91 of the top 100 Utah