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Jun 11, 2021
3:55:46pm

chrisrenrut Starter

Your definition of prominence is not correct. It has nothing to do with base to

summit. It is about how much elevation change is required when traveling from the next tallest peak.

For instance, Mount Olympus in Utah can be hiked from the base with over 4,000 feet of elevation. But it's prominence is only 387 feet, because the next closest higher peak is to it's east, and doesn't require much elevation gain to go from it to Mount Olympus' peak.

Topographic prominence

In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_prominence

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Most Utah mountains aren't that much taller than much of the Appalachians.

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 3:02pm

RE: Most Utah mountains aren't that much taller than much of the Appalachians.

Zedhead

6/11/21 3:04pm

I charge $2

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 3:04pm

Also, this should be common knowledge to anyone who read Centennial by Michner

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 3:09pm

Also, if you're a cross-country cyclist.

squidmark

6/11/21 3:13pm

What was that? I couldn't hear you standing on your little hill while I am up

RH84025

6/11/21 3:08pm

Rocky Mountains are much more steep than the Appalachians. You talk about prominence but not

CSoul

6/11/21 3:11pm

Go deer hunting at the top of the Wellsvilles and you will feel it.

CSoul

6/11/21 3:13pm

Valid point. The eastern mountains are older and more weathered

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 3:13pm

They think the Appalachians are 4 times older than the Rocky Mountains.

CSoul

6/11/21 3:13pm

They think?

Hotlanta

6/11/21 3:15pm

"Geologists believe." That better? Being pedantic on message boards is fun!

CSoul

6/11/21 3:17pm

You know you can just state it as fact, right?

Hotlanta

6/11/21 3:17pm

Well, sure, but if he said "you are pedantic", that would be a personal attack.

jdub

6/11/21 3:20pm

Touche, lol

Hotlanta

6/11/21 3:22pm

Well my mountain can beat up your mountain.

Superman21

6/11/21 3:22pm

Is there any photo like this in the Appalachians?

777

6/11/21 3:14pm

No, because the eastern mountains are not in a desert and are lower elevations

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 3:21pm

Why does the skiing suck back East (generally speaking)?

Carnac

6/11/21 3:24pm

So their smaller mountains?

Superman21

6/11/21 3:24pm

I used to drive a shuttle from the airport and anyone that had never been to SLC

777

6/11/21 3:26pm

What does vegetation have to do with your argument of size?

stoils

6/11/21 3:49pm

RE: What does vegetation have to do with your argument of size?

Breaded Hamster

6/11/21 3:59pm

Cutting back the vegetation can give the illusion of more prominence

Mike Honcho

6/11/21 6:22pm

OTOH, much of the lack of vegetation has to do with height

6/11/21 11:17pm

Fair point but 1) I don’t want humidity 2) I want skiing 3) app state > Michigan

runitup590

6/11/21 3:15pm

There are not as much but still ski slopes in the Appalachains.

FieroCoug

6/11/21 3:53pm

The height of nearby mountains often meddles with other large mountains having higher prominence. For example,

6/11/21 3:15pm

High elevation is part of the draw to me when I think of mountains. I like

SUAVO

6/11/21 3:16pm

You don't like palm trees at the peak either?

Carnac

6/11/21 3:27pm

Only in my drink

SUAVO

6/11/21 8:18pm

Find me a mountain as dramatic as Timp in all of Appalachia. I'll wait

Hotlanta

6/11/21 3:17pm

Dramatic? That's a new metric for mountains I've never heard of...

whirl

6/11/21 3:21pm

Piton des nieges. It sits at the center of reunion island. 0 ft to over 10,000ft

MrClark

6/12/21 12:00pm

Not in Appalachia...

Hotlanta

6/12/21 12:22pm

Okay Boomer

I'mYourHuckleberry

6/11/21 3:23pm

Spent some summer p-days hiking in the Presidential Range of northern NH. Some great mountains to climb.

SierraCoug

6/11/21 3:25pm

I am not sure how prominence is measured but I basically live at the base of

6/11/21 3:27pm

It is because Timp is surrounded by other very tall mountains.

Carnac

6/11/21 3:28pm

If you really want to talk about prominence of US ranges, California probably has the biggest ones

SingleStrapBackpack

6/11/21 3:32pm

The Cougarboarder Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain

zonacougar

6/11/21 3:48pm

Your definition of prominence is not correct. It has nothing to do with base to

chrisrenrut

6/11/21 3:55pm

I didn't realize that. I learned something new on CB today. Thanks Mizzou!

Hoosier77

6/11/21 3:55pm

Yeah, to the near meat 10 miles both round to zero

TomPetty

6/11/21 3:56pm

I went to the great Smokey's last month. Utahs mountains are significantly

LiveCoug

6/11/21 4:37pm

That said, the Smokey's are beautiful for sure

LiveCoug

6/11/21 4:40pm

Utah is very much a desert. Other parts of the country are more green for sure.

TomPetty

6/11/21 4:43pm

No clue what that has to do with my post, but obviously the east is more green

LiveCoug

6/11/21 4:59pm

I think the impressive part of the smokeys is the extent of forest

TomPetty

6/11/21 5:03pm

Yes, but the amount of vegetation also makes them more hill like.

LiveCoug

6/11/21 5:04pm

Canadian Rockies are even more impressive. Majestic like Utah w/ lots more green

WDaddy

6/11/21 8:52pm

Even the Tetons are like that

SingleStrapBackpack

6/11/21 10:48pm

You Utah guys need to spend some time in Colorado. Let's talk fourteeners!

Hoosier77

6/11/21 4:41pm

Appalachians. Mounds of dirt covered with gross deciduous trees

Backcountry

6/11/21 4:50pm

Board name ain't "Backeastcountry"

TomPetty

6/11/21 4:54pm

RE: Board name ain't "Backeastcountry"

Backcountry

6/11/21 4:55pm

Yahtzee!

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 10:39pm

Utah has 12 Mts. with 4500+' of "Prominence", the Eastern U.S. has only 4

slatecoug

6/11/21 11:25pm

What you miss is that one of those two is in NH, the other in NC

6/11/21 11:08pm

Utah has 12 Mts. with 4500+' of "Prominence", the Eastern U.S. has only 4

slatecoug

6/11/21 11:23pm

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