I always thought Heliacal volcano on Maui should have a sundial at the Visitor Center on top since there's a whole legend about the Hawaiian sun god Maui and the volcano of the sun. There's only one registered sundial in Hawaii and it's in someone's front yard in Honolulu. And Hawaii doesn't have Daylight Saving Time!
John L. Carmichael Jr. 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson Arizona, 85718 USA Tel: 520-696-1709 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sundial Sculptures Website: http://www.sundialsculptures.com Stained Glass Sundials Website: http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Stained_Glass ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Woodbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Sundial Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 11:03 PM Subject: Sightings....In Estes Park > Hello Steve, > > I was pleased to read your articles in the March edition of the NASS > Compendium. Your "Sighting... In Estes Park" may be the highest altitude > sundial in North America. In the early days of the sundial mailing list, > Karl Schwarzinger asked what were the highest altitude sundials. I believe > the winner was a dial in the Canary Islands. I nominated two dials as the > highest in Canada and the highest in the USA. My "Battle Abbey Iceaxe > sundial" at a remote mountain hut in the Selkirk Mountains seemed to be the > North American and Canadian winner at 7400 ft. The dial presented to > Percival Lowell by the Lowell Observatory staff in ~1915 seemed to be the US > winner. I am pleased to hear that the Lowell dial is seeing the sun again at > the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff AZ at ~7200 ft. This is higher than the > Mayall dial at Kitt Peak at ~ 6875 ft. We saw this dial on the Tucson > Sundial tour. See www.sundials.org/conference/2002/2002tour.htm > > Your sighting of the dial in Estes Park at over 8000 ft seems to establish a > new North American altitude record. Can anyone name a dial at a higher > elevation in North America? > > Roger Bailey > Walking Shadow Designs > N 48.6 W 123.4 > at an elevation of ~20 ft! > > - > -
