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Where's DougPaul? According to the label, 8 oz. (240 Ml) of Gatorade contains 14 grams of sugar, 110 mg of sodium and 30 mg of Potassium. One assumes the sodium and potassium are part of chloride salts. I couldn't find a chart for sugar but a couple of experiments I read indicate to me that the...

Truh Pello Rd. I'm not sure I can agree with NH_Mtn_Hiker's speculation that New Hampsherites in the mid-19th Century wouldn't be familiar with the proper pronunciation of Tripoli, because it was the location of America's first "voluntary" war, the attack on the Barbary Pirates. The hero of...

One hike suggests another Thanks, all. Especially RoySwkr for the link to the website I didn't know about and Dr. Wu for a link to your hike with Barbarossa and el_bagr. From the TR, there are views to the south and west but I was thinking there would be views of an arc from Mt. Nancy, the...

On my 1987 AMC Pemi map, there is an unnamed peak listed at 4,024 feet between N. Hancock and the Pemigewasset R. On Topozone, it looks like it's the end of a ridge running NNE from N. Hancock and that it might dip to below 4,000 feet between the peaks. Evidently, not enough to qualify as an...

Wilderness benefits Those of us who disagreed with the recent change in the status of the Wild River area might now see a benefit to protecting the area with Wilderness status, if it keeps towers from being built there. A reasonable trade off will be to accept these energy sources on less...

Oregonian post-mortem http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news/116823753415560.xml?oregonian?lctop&coll=7 Please read this before commenting as it has info most of us hadn't seen before. It's a review of the problems besetting the search. One of the biggest problems, and one...

Passenger service ended in 1994 The Canadian Pacific's Atlantic Limited ran from Montreal to St. John's, N.B., from 1955-1978, when Via Canada became the national railroad and took over the route. VIA Canada extended the route to Halifax in 1979. The line was eliminated amidst controversy in...

Don't push it Time is either on your side or against you and you have to figure out which it is. After three, they start predicting knee replacement someday. I'm about 15 years past my due date! It could be a period of sufficient rest is needed or you may be better off going into intensive...

Pure genius Thanks, Tom, nice addition to the site and it works as a handy (refresher) pop quiz. One would certainly think a commercial site like Google should have contacted David Metzky before appropriating his work. We hear about Google's piracy on a grand scale but here's a case of an...

Incomplete cost-benefit ratios People who are complaining about the rescue cost are breaking out only one side of the balance sheet. First, a poster on another forum noted that all types of rescue amount to 0.0013 percent of the National Park Service budgets, used here as an example of places...

One dead While I was typing the last post, officials announced they found one climber's body in a second snow cave.

Cascade Climbers site not working Cascadeclimbers.com has been the best source of information, along with KATU-TV's website and Oregonlive.com (second page has brief bulletins). But the cascadeclimbers.com site hasn't worked for about an hour now.

Thanks, Vegematic That site is very handy. You can click on the large celestial map and get a zoom-in map in the adjacent box, and then move it around. I love it. M15 is on the other side of Pegasus from where I'm thinking I'm seeing. I'm seeing the arm of Andromeda that hooks to Pegasus at...

I see what you mean There are red dots all over the face of the mountain, too.

Normally, I wouldn't think to look at the Mt. Washington Observatory webcams at night but the thread about auroras this weekend sent me to the site and I looked at the cams. In the West cam, at 11 p.m. ET, is that Almaak and Mirach on the arm of Andromeda, starting from the center bottom and...

My wife has serious problems with directions and none of our cars have on-board systems that give directions. I'm thinking of getting a system that would allow her to input starting point and destination and would give her verbal instructions on when to turn. Is there a system that operates on...

Closed by Mt. Riga Corp. It's been discussed before on the "Questions about Race, Alander, Etc." thread but a little-known group of homeowners formed the Mt. Riga Corp. which owns the road on the Connecticut side and they close it in winter. The barriers should be on the Ct. side of the state...

Chemistry/Math question Thanks for keeping the thread open, Dave. You're right, a lot of information has been imparted. To scientists TeeJay, Dr. Dasypodidae and DougPaul, I want to question whether a burned gallon of gas (stated at 6.1 pounds) converts to 25 pounds of CO2. By my math, two...

Wilderness fires I just thought about this. A wilderness area is supposed to be an area untouched forevermore by the hand of man. That means no shelters, no bridges, no new trails, no signage, etc. But do they put out forest fires in Wilderness areas? That would seem, if not hypocritical, at...

How I'd spend it I would take the $5,000 vacation money and my children and grandchildren to the New York Stock Exchange so they could see how it works and then I would invest for them the remaining balance in the Janus Orion Fund which has grown at better than 20 percent a year in the past...