Archive for the 'Idaho' Category
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
KTVB has a history of Borah noting that it was originally called “Chilly Mountain” and then Beauty Peak before being renamed for Idaho Senator William Edgar Borah.
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
Peter Thompson at the University of New Hampshire has an elegant and comprehensive description website about the geology of the highpoints of each state.
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
Aaron Maizlish has an amazing peaklist.org site discussing prominence (the distance from the highest point to the next highest point). The most spectacular examples of these are the peaks where you have could have a at least 5,000 foot vertical climb (there’s even peaks in the East where you can do that!). The site also lists dramatic vertical climbs throughout the world and lesser climbs in many states.
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Friday, February 18th, 2005
Mountainclimb.com has great collection of pewter benchmarks of highpoints.
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Friday, February 18th, 2005
Here’s a 3D rotating movie of the Borah summit. You will see it in 3D if you have red-blue glasses. This was generated with 3DEM.WARNING: 1.4 meg mpg file. Read the rest of this entry »
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