RE: [pct-l] altimeter watch- is it worth taking?

["Reynolds, WT" <reynolds@ilan.com>]

I rarely recalibrated my altimeter. You cross a pass that is 12,080 feet and
your altimeter reads 12,020. You know that your device reads 60 feet low.
You go to bed and your altimeter reads 10, 520 but when you wake uo it us
10,000. The atmospheric pressure changed. You are really at 10, 580 [10,520
plus the 60 foot offset you found at the pass] so you know that the offset
is now 80'. This may sound difficult but is, in reality, trivial. If you
can't do it you're eating too much corn pasta and not enough snickers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Olson [mailto:jjolson@uwyo.edu]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 5:33 PM
Cc: pct-l@edina.hack.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] altimeter watch- is it worth taking?


On my section hikes I really enjoyed the routine of calibrating the watch to
known points every couple miles as given in the guidebook.  But, as the
trips
entered their second or third week, I tended to forgoe this pleasure for
bathing, washing clothes, eating, foot care, eating, marvelling, etc.

Jeffrey Olson
Laramie WY

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