Sometimes at Gunpoint, Twins Discover New Highpoints Around

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Sometimes at Gunpoint, Twins Discover New Highpoints Around

Postby Jeremy Hakes » Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:44 am

Sometimes at Gunpoint, Twins Discover New Highpoints Around The World:

https://explorersweb.com/mit-bros-discover-new-highpoints/

https://www.instagram.com/twinstothetops/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=b827a1a4-9fa0-4aa3-91d0-124b0c1d9402

Looks like they're doing a lot of work in Washington state.

"Working in Washington
As most climbers know, mountains often have more than one summit. But identifying which summit is the actual highpoint isn’t as easy as it sounds.

So recently, Eric Gilbertson has been applying his newfound surveying knowledge to peaks in Washington State. At Sherpa Peak, he determined that the western summit is .6 metres taller than the balanced rock summit. At Buck Mountain, he found that the central summit is actually the highest, not the northern summit, as previously thought. He made a similar discovery at Mount Berge.

Then there’s Mount Buckner, which “was a mystery for a long time,” Eric said. Most climbers go for the southwest summit on Buckner, but many climbers believed the northeast summit might be higher.

So Eric tapped fellow adventure seeker Talon Johnson to help him haul the climbing and surveying gear into the Cascade Mountains and find the answer. Once reaching the mountain, they worked together to take the measurement. Johnson soloed to the northeast summit while holding a metre stick as a reference point for Eric, who dialed in the theodolite, a tool for precise measurements."

Looking at their post, they say the SW Summit is 18.9" higher with one sigma error +/- 3.5".
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