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An arrangement of one or more pieces of fixed protection set up to support the weight of a belay, a top rope, or an abseil. [1] [3] See also deadman anchor. ape index A measure of the ratio of a climber's arm span relative to their height. arête 1. A small ridge-like feature or a sharp outward-facing corner on a steep rock face. 2.
Kern Point is a 12,763-foot-elevation (3,890 meter) mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Tulare County, California. [1] It is situated in Sequoia National Park, two miles northeast of Picket Guard Peak, and seven miles east of Mount Whitney.
Picket Guard Peak is a 12,302-foot-elevation (3,750 meter) mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Tulare County, California. [4] It is situated in Sequoia National Park, two miles southwest of Kern Point, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) north of Mount Kaweah, and three miles east of the junction of Kaweah Peaks Ridge with Great Western Divide.
Examples of reverse slope defense during the American Civil War included Stonewall Jackson's defense of Henry House Hill during the First Battle of Bull Run (also known as Manassas) (1861), where he ordered his soldiers to lie down below the crest of the hill in order to avoid Union artillery, and Winfield Scott Hancock's counter-attack against Jubal Early at the Battle of Williamsburg (1862).
Granite Peak Ski Area: Wausau: Wisconsin: 1,950 1,250 700 220 75 7 75 $49 December 9, 2019 [337] Kettlebowl Ski Area: Antigo: Wisconsin: 1,780 1,455 325 7 5 $5 December 9, 2019 [338] Kewaunee Winter Park: Kewaunee: Wisconsin: 740 580 160 5 1 $15 December 9, 2019 [339] Keyes Peak Ski Hill: Florence: Wisconsin: 1,480 1,250 230 5 2 60 $12 December ...
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The Mosquito Range (elevation approximately 14,000 ft) is a high mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.The peaks of the range form a ridge running north–south for roughly 40 mi (64 km) from southern Summit County on the north end, then along the boundary between Lake and Park Counties.
At its peak, more than 30,000 Red Guards arrived a day, causing terrible problems of food, housing, sanitation. Peak numbers continued for more than two months until the government began to discourage the young people. In 1981, an area of 16.6 km 2 (6.4 sq mi) was designated a Natural Protection Area. The next year the mountains was listed as a ...