Re: Re: Mountains in Dragon Pass

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:18:17 -0700 (PDT)


> Defining a mountain by absolute height has always stricken me as somewhat
> silly. It is elevation above the surrounding land which makes a mountain,

Which is precisely what we were looking at earlier. Subtracting the "base" altitude from the max altitude was part of every comparison, and we never did manage to find anything where that difference was more than about 4000 feet in a "range" only 10 miles wide.       

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