[pct-l] Elevation Change

[StoneDancer1 at aol.com (StoneDancer1@aol.com)]

In a message dated 1/26/2005 4:17:49 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
weathercarrot@hotmail.com writes:

<< I  think San Jacinto is the most abrupt elevation change in the world  
???>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  And someone  said that Mt. Whitney is the same, but check 
elevation and distance.   It's more than you think.
 
Across the broad, flat sweep of San  Gorgonio Pass, the north face of  Mt. 
San Jacinto rises more than 9500 feet, from Snow Creek to the summit,  in just 
4.5 miles.  Its eastern  slope, rising above Palm Springs, is even steeper, 
rising 8000 vertical feet in  only three linear miles.  It is said  that 
traveling a thousand feet upward is roughly the same as traveling 600 miles  north, in 
terms of biotic communities.  Within this three miles one passes through 
every life zone - ecologically, the same thing as making a nearly  5000-mile 
journey to the north.
 
 
And....Hey Weather Carrot.  I saw your note at Park Creek Summit the  day 
after you left it.  Ah well.... next time.
 

 

"No Way" Ray  Echols