[pct-l] Altitude gain/loss for the PCT, and Oregon really is flat!

[jerrygoller at backpackgeartest.org (Jerry Goller)]

Actually, you can set your Kestrel 4000 to automatically store sample
intervals of 2 sec, 5 sec, 10 sec, 20 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min, 10
min, 20 min, 30 min, 1 hr, 2 hr, 5 hr, and 12 hr. 

That will give you sampled time periods of 8 min, 20 sec, through 17 wk, 6
days, depending on the sampling interval. I set mine to sample every 5
minutes for winter over night tests and every 20 minutes for 3 season
weekend trips. You can set it to overwrite and continue sampling or stop
recording at the end of the memory capabilities.

You can download that info to an Excel spreadsheet, as well. 

I've been using one for 2 or 3 years now.

Jerry
  


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-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net
[mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Moorehead
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 7:16 PM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Altitude gain/loss for the PCT, and Oregon really is
flat!


Dave,
 I find all of this super interesting and will gladly attest to my geekiness
in order to obtian your data on the spreadsheet. Next year when I hike, I am
not only going to do the same daily mileage/elevation, but I am also going
to determine which ranges of mountains have the steepest
temperature/elevation lapse rate. I have one of those Kestrel 4000
weathermeters that logs data at the push of a button or automatically (but
only every 2 hours).
 Geeky enough for ya'?
 Thanks,
 Jeff 

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