Feet and / or meters for land elevations ................. helps to
accommodate those few who have difficulty with a base 10 measuring system.
Does the US keep exclusively with miles, yards, feet and inches because
too many people have trouble grasping base 10 :-)
jh
On 8/29/2014 9:24 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
I thought you guys up there had given up on feet as a measure. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/29/2014 5:44 PM, John Hudson wrote:
This reminds me of a logging road in south eastern British Columbia we
drove up in mid summer 1995 and seen here:
*http://tinyurl.com/qack7vw
*The logging road was in active use ...... big 40 wheelers with upwards
of 150,000 pound loads ....... during our drive up the hill in our
diesel VW Jetta.
Total elevation gain from the highway to the parking lot's look out was
>5,600 feet.
jh
On 8/29/2014 5:44 PM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
This is where we went on Wed. +/-9mi/15km rt. Will be trying to get
out more this fall.
<http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/DamfinoLks/Damfino_0100.JPG>
more as I get to them.
<http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/DamfinoLks/>
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