[pct-l] PCT Total Vertical Gain?

[reynolds@iLAN.com (Reynolds, WT)]

I could run an elevation gain/loss on my Topo! trace of the PCT through all
of California. That would be AN answer.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Brick Robbins [mailto:brick@fastpack.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 1:55 PM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] PCT Total Vertical Gain?


At 01:24 PM 3/13/01 , you wrote:
>  There is a right answer to this PCT total
>elevation gain question, but no "correct" answer.  Have you heard of
>fractals?  This is the perfect fractional dimension problem.

Damn Mathematicians...

 From an engineering point of view there is a practical answer. 
(Mathematicians never give practical answers, they just give engineers the 
tools they need to do the real work....<gdr>)

Determine the resolution of your measuring devices, and the reasonable 
spacing of your data points.

Go from there.

I'd still love to hear from Jim on this one.

-Brick



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