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The Mount Washington Observatory (MWObs) is a private, non-profit scientific and educational institution organized under the laws of the state of New Hampshire. The weather observation station is located on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire .
This is the page most often used, since it is referenced directly by links from each of the SOTAWatch Summit pages. [3] In addition to being able to view various SOTA Associations, Regions and individual summits, the page offers the exporting or downloading of such data in GPX (for import into a GPS device) or KML (for importing into Google Earth) formats.
An ultra-prominent summit is a summit with at least 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. The first table below ranks the 20 highest summits of Missouri by ...
Taum Sauk Mountain / ˈ t ɔː m ˈ s ɔː k / [3] in the Saint Francois Mountains is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Missouri at 1,772 feet (540 m). [4] The topography of Taum Sauk is that of an elongated ridge with a NNW-SSE orientation rather than a peak.
At the summit is a center with a museum, gift shop, observation area, cafeteria, and the Mount Washington Observatory. Other routes up the eastern slopes of the mountain include the Lion Head, Boott Spur, Huntington Ravine and Nelson Crag trails, as well as the Great Gulf Trail ascending from the northeast.
The video shows a car pass multiple stopped vehicles on an ice-covered road before sliding entirely off. More freezing rain was in the forecast Monday night for the Kansas City area.
In 1642, Darby Field was the first to climb to the summit of Mount Washington. He supposedly had guidance by local Native Americans. Construction of the auto road started in 1854. After funds ran out in 1856, the current Mount Washington Summit Road Company completed building it in 1859. It was at that time that summit buildings were erected.
Lead Hill is a peak in southwestern Wright County in the Ozarks of southern Missouri. [1] The peak has an elevation of 1,744 feet (532 m). [2] Lead Hill lies just to the east of the community of Cedar Gap and about 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Mansfield. Lead Hill is an erosional remnant marking the boundary between the Springfield Plateau to the ...