Re: Saddle Mountain cairn
I will have to look for that book. The theory is simple but the reality was unbelievably complex. They had to compensate for the expansion and contraction...
mi_hiker 2013-07-01 06:22:52 #73464

Re: Saddle Mountain cairn
Everest was surveyed by GPS in 1999 to be 29,038 ft (to the top of the snow pack). In 1856, the GTS found it to be 29,002 ft. I read that the original...
mi_hiker 2013-06-30 20:42:03 #73462

Re: Saddle Mountain cairn
What book is that? I read about the survey of India many years ago but I don't recall where. It its a very cool story about one of the greatest...
mi_hiker 2013-06-30 16:42:58 #73451

Re: Hot, Hot, Hot!
I have a friend from Turkmenistan. She thinks it's kind of funny the way we get all excited when the temperature gets above 45 C. --- In...
mi_hiker 2013-06-26 15:22:49 #73422

Re: First Timer Advice
Thanks. I was at the NR a few years ago. Didn't camp but stayed at the lodge with the family. We had one of the big cabins (stone fireplace, porch with...
mi_hiker 2013-06-24 10:13:27 #73403

Re: First Timer Advice
We only get Wed-Sun off for Thanksgiving so that isn't really enough time. Besides, living with my family after missing a major holiday for a hiking trip...
mi_hiker 2013-06-23 20:18:09 #73397

Re: First Timer Advice
Thanks all. Replying to all the suggestions with some follow-up Q I will heed the hike early and rest mid day advice. Although it would be logistically...
mi_hiker 2013-06-23 20:09:27 #73396

First Timer Advice
Hi New to the forum and the GC. I visited the SR in 1970 on a family vacation (think Griswalds) and the NR in 2007 with my own kids. On neither trip did I...
mi_hiker 2013-06-22 08:47:08 #73378

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