[pct-l] PCT Elevation gain/loss Stats

[Sir Mixalot]

Using Halfmile's untrimmed track files, I came up with 649,181 feet of
elevation gain and 648,156 feet of elevation loss in Garmin Basecamp.  Part
of that data was verified in Excel.

As you may know, his data points are far closer together than a half mile,
but  vary between ~10 feet apart and hundreds of feet apart.  He could have
turned up the track point recording frequency on his gps, but his gps
device is probably consumer grade, so it isn't going to be very accurate or
precise anyway.  Unless someone gets out there with professional grade
hardware, we're not going to get much more reliable results.


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Paint Your Wagon <n801yz at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Porsche,
>
> Well- that didn't work out as well as I thought it would.
>
> The first page of each section has the gains and loses for that section,
> but nothing for the entire trail.
>
> Whiteblaze had a figure for the PCT of well over 600,000 feet, but I could
> not find a source for the data.
>
> Another AT site had the figure at a little over 300,000 feet. That's when
> I quit looking due to the discrepancies.
>
> Adding the figures of each section from Half Mile's maps will give you
> your answer with a modest effort.
>
> <>Paint<>
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