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2015 Appalachian Trail Mileage
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Rasty wrote:
How wide is the trail this year?
As wide as a smile.Changes Daily→ ♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫ ♪♫♪♫♪♫ ← Don't blame me. It's That Lonesome Guitar. -
I have walked the width many times.Lost in the right direction.
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hikerboy wrote:
Quote from Tuckahoe: “Or 729.73 leagues :)”
thats hard to fathom
Naw that is just 1,926,496 fathomsOf course I talk to myself... sometimes I need expert advice. -
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milkman wrote:
The official mileage for the Appalachian Trail for 2015 is 2,189.2 miles.
milkman wrote:
Or 3523.18 kilometers. Just for you Oz.
Tuckahoe wrote:
Or 729.73 leagues
Rasty wrote:
179,116 chains
Thruhikers are still called "2000 milers".
If near enough is good enough for the ATC I can't argue.
By the way Rasty - Do you know what a chain is?Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait. -
OzJacko wrote:
milkman wrote:
The official mileage for the Appalachian Trail for 2015 is 2,189.2 miles.
milkman wrote:
Or 3523.18 kilometers. Just for you Oz.
Tuckahoe wrote:
Or 729.73 leagues
Rasty wrote:
179,116 chains
Thruhikers are still called "2000 milers".
If near enough is good enough for the ATC I can't argue.
By the way Rasty - Do you know what a chain is?
66' link of chain that surveyors used to measure most of the world. At the very least almost the entire United States was measured this way.Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Dr. Seuss -
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OzJacko wrote:
Very good. Also the length of a cricket pitch.
Oz, unfortunately I think I heard on the news this week about a guy getting killed playing cricket.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
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1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish...
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Astro wrote:
OzJacko wrote:
Very good. Also the length of a cricket pitch.
Oz, unfortunately I think I heard on the news this week about a guy getting killed playing cricket.
Yeah unfortunately Astro. Just shy of 26yo. Very popular young guy. Has played in national team. Whole country in shock. Attempting to hit a rising fast ball (about 80 -90 mph) got hit just behind ear below helmet. Ruptured an artery.
Sad.Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait. -
762,892,416 knitted stitches.Lost in the right direction.
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OzJacko wrote:
Astro wrote:
OzJacko wrote:
Very good. Also the length of a cricket pitch.
Oz, unfortunately I think I heard on the news this week about a guy getting killed playing cricket.
Yeah unfortunately Astro. Just shy of 26yo. Very popular young guy. Has played in national team. Whole country in shock. Attempting to hit a rising fast ball (about 80 -90 mph) got hit just behind ear below helmet. Ruptured an artery.
Sad.
Oz, happened here in the US in MLB about 100 years ago to Ray Chapman, but fortunately not again since. Of course helmets worn here in the US have improved a lot in my lifetime. Biggest concern we have today is with pitchers on balls hit directly back to them. Past spring they were trying out types of special hats for them.
I got nailed with a pick off while coaching 1B in our 13-14 year old league two years ago. The ball went off my head and down the right field line. Thrown so hard that when it bounced off my head the runner got up off the ground (I had him dive back into first) and went all the way from 1st to 3rd. Due to that, the past 2 years they have made coaches wear helmets now when coaching the bases.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
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Helmets only worn in cricket last 20-30 years. They're still playing with the design. Following this they will no doubt have new ones.
The oldtimers were brave men.
Mostly issues we have is with the face as they are more front on than baseball. Also ball coming up off ground so gets under and into chin causing broken jaws and teeth. This one was very unusual striking him just behind the ear high on the neck. More the area you would expect to hit a baseballer. The young guy who bowled it is really devastated. The dead guy had just started playing for a different state and the opposition were pretty close to him. Like I said very popular guy. All current games around the country cancelled (several interstate games) and up coming test against India will probably go ahead but they haven't confirmed. The guy was known and had friends in India, NZ, England, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Tens of thousands of homes across the country have a cricket bat at their front door as a tribute. My 1 hour news on TV last night started with over 15 minutes on the story and links. Dozens dying in Nigeria barely cracked a mention. It's sad but media does bugger up our values I think.Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait. -
TrafficJam wrote:
762,892,416 knitted stitches.
But what Iis your guage? Is that bulky weight, worsted or fingering weight yarn? What size needles?Of course I talk to myself... sometimes I need expert advice. -
Tuckahoe wrote:
TrafficJam wrote:
762,892,416 knitted stitches.
But what Iis your guage? Is that bulky weight, worsted or fingering weight yarn? What size needles?
worsted! 5.5 sts/in.
ETA... 4.5 mm's. Can you imagine fingering weight on 0's?Lost in the right direction.The post was edited 1 time, last by Traffic Jam ().
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For us chemists: 3.52317588 × 10^16 angstroms
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max.patch wrote:
its about 5 months long. and it just just got a couple hours longer.
Or... the better part of a lifetime, for some of us. I can't stay away for very long. Here it is again, where it crosses Palisades Parkway south of Bear Mountain. On the way to Thanksgiving dinner just the other day.
[IMG:http://terrapinphoto.com/misc/at_crossing_palisades_parkway.jpg]
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LIhikers wrote:
Hey, I know those 2 hikers. They are about the only ones I can hike faster and farther than.
I've seen them in Virginia and New York on the same day. That's fast.Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
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OzJacko wrote:
Very good. Also the length of a cricket pitch.
Good info. Thanks, Oz! Now I can get to work building my cricket pitch.Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less. - Robert E. Lee -
Rasty wrote:
LIhikers wrote:
Hey, I know those 2 hikers. They are about the only ones I can hike faster and farther than.
I've seen them in Virginia and New York on the same day. That's fast.
In that case I'm back to being the slowest thing on the trail -
this falls in the "dubious records" category, but warren doyle and one other individual hold the record for the quickest summits of springer and katahdin. they summitted springer, and then immediately drove non stop all night to katahdin which they then summitted 24-30 (don't remember) hours later.2,000 miler
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Rasty wrote:
How wide is the trail this year?
Wider than the Pinhoti.
Tuckahoe wrote:
Or 729.73 leagues
At least it is not under the sea.I am human and I need to be loved - just like everybody else does -
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Rasty wrote:
OzJacko wrote:
milkman wrote:
The official mileage for the Appalachian Trail for 2015 is 2,189.2 miles.
milkman wrote:
Or 3523.18 kilometers. Just for you Oz.
Tuckahoe wrote:
Or 729.73 leagues
Rasty wrote:
179,116 chains
If near enough is good enough for the ATC I can't argue.
By the way Rasty - Do you know what a chain is?
Well, yes and no.
I read a book about old Texas. The Spanish Land Grants were supposedly measured in chains; however, the Spanish surveyors did it a bit differently.
The chain would be tied to left stirrup on one saddle, and right stirrup on the other saddle. They would ride along. ( Remember, the Comanche and other tribes were still active during this.) The second rider was supposed to mark, by eye, where the other rider started, each location that stirrup passed something on the gorund, plus count them... they didn't measure cactus thickets, brush thickets, nor water courses/lakes.
That is one reason those old land grants werre so huge.--
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