[USMA:29133] Re: REI brochure

[Helen Bushnell]

Harry Wyeth wrote: I know many people involved in mountaineering and backpacking, and it is very difficult to get them to relate to metric heights.  We must admit that there is a certain ease to thinking of common backpacking elevations in units of even five hundred or a thousand feet.  Thus, it is easy to think "7000 feet, 7500 feet, 8000 feet" and so on.  On the other hand, the interval between, say, 2000 and 2500 m is rather large.   I wonder if anyone has a suggestion on how to deal with this problem.     HARRY WYETH HARRY WYETH If there are people from other countries who climb in some of the same areas that you do, you could ask them how they think of differences in elevation.  You could also look at books published in other countries. Helen