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Great idea, which I have done for
years now (I used to run track events). It is a little more difficult to
get folks to get with the program when dealing with vertical dimensions,
however.
HARRY
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Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 06:23
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First, think in metric.
To relate metric with English units, think in
terms of track where the 440 yards (quarter mile) is now 400
meters, 880 yds is 800 m, 220 yds is 200 m, and 110 yds
is 100 m. etc. An American football field length plus
one end zone is 100 m.
Stan Doore .
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Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 8:30
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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
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