"Sunlight Spire" LiDAR Elevation

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13995.997 ft? God is an American!
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When NAV22 becomes the reference next year they'll have to move the mile high marker up two steps (60 centimeters) on the State Capitol steps. I think its been repositioned three times in its history. Clever of them to account for survey revisions :-D
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greenonion wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:58 am What does this mean for Sunshine Peak (next to Redcloud)? And Huron?
That's a switch as it seemed from NGVD29 to NAVD88 things were moving up about 5 feet. Now we're saying things are moving down about 1 1/2 feet.

Looks like that would put Sunshine Peak as the highest 13'er. Huron the lowest 14'er.
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peter303 wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:42 pm When NAV22 becomes the reference next year they'll have to move the mile high marker up two steps (60 centimeters) on the State Capitol steps. I think its been repositioned three times in its history. Clever of them to account for survey revisions :-D
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What does it say for Mount Ouray?
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I'm interested if this affects some of the "close" 14ers like Sunshine and Grizzly peak.
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Any data on whether Sunlight Spire has 300’ prominence? Making it now the highest 13’er?
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FireOnTheMountain wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:44 am
Monster5 wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:27 amI couldn't care less about the ranked/ unranked crap, but this process is super cool. Thanks for sharing.
I just wanna know how this all plays into flat Earth :-k
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greenonion wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:58 am What does this mean for Sunshine Peak (next to Redcloud)? And Huron?
Looks like for the time being they should be fine. However, a couple decades from now might be a different story.
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Will_E wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:48 pm Any data on whether Sunlight Spire has 300’ prominence? Making it now the highest 13’er?
I took a quick look at the saddle, and found it to be between 4203.3 and 4203.5 m. 4203.35 is a pretty good estimate. This would put the prominence at ~62.63 meters, or ~205.5 ft (4265.98m - 4203.35m). This is actually relatively close to the interpolated prominence at 215 ft, though it definitely doesn't always work out that way.
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I'll take a look at some of the lower 14ers and higher 13ers soon. Possibly this weekend.
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Wish I had been privy to all this new LIDAR talk when writing this article, lol.
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