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Subject: [pct-l] Mt. Whitney and the white mountains
From: kdpo at pacbell.net (Ken Powers)
Date: Wed Feb 18 15:04:57 2004
References: <001601c3f5bb$03c83dd0$055ef142@pounder><001301c3f5bf$15c38680$6501a8c0@pacbell.net> <19b101c3f64f$426e9ae0$6500a8c0@station101>

As I remember the top of White Mtn is a rock pile. Seems to me that the
Corps of Engineers may have been piling rocks up to make White Mtn taller
than Mt Whitney. If so they gave up 250 feet short.

Ken
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From: "Steve Courtway" <scourtway@bpa-arch.com>
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> I heard a story about the army corps of engineers shelling the peak of
white
> mtn so that whitney would be the highest peak in the lower 48.  Can't
> remember which owens valley old timer told me that one though.  Smells
kinda
> sagey.
>
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References:
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- [pct-l] Mt. Whitney
  - From: kdpo at pacbell.net (Ken Powers)
- [pct-l] Mt. Whitney and the white mountains
  - From: scourtway at bpa-arch.com (Steve Courtway)

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