Re: [pct-l] hiking to Mount Whitney

[Ty <ty@vr6.com>]

Thank you for that correction.  In my haste to get this web site up 
and running I didn't double check the information I was getting off 
of the Internet.

Ty

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At 11:20 PM -0700 1/28/00, Karen Elder wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ty <ty@vr6.com>
>  > Mount Whitney...is the highest mountain in the
>  > coterminous United States and has an altitude
>  > of 14,494 feet. Second highest peak in the
>  > United States after Mount McKinley, Alaska
>  > (20,320 feet).
>
>Nitpicky point: Whitney is not the second highest peak in
>the US. For example, St. Elias, in Alaska, is 18,008 feet.
>In fact, of the 20 highest mountains in the United States,
>17 are in Alaska.
>
>Karen
>
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