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Phil Rides Across America!
apskip:
Ken, thanks for giving us all easy access to the photos and videos of Phil's trip. From the standpoint of geography, I am amused by some of your probably intentional errors. For example:
--- Quote ---This is Day 36. Phil goes from Pittsburgh, PA into Frostburg, MD. Phil goes up some 11,500 feet. Wow. And Phil loses it a bit.
--- End quote ---
I think that is possible, but he would have to ride elevators in Pittsburgh for a long time to do that. The highest
point in Pennsylvania is Mt. Adams in the southwest part of the state at 3213 feet. Just a bit shy of 11,500 feet, which can't even be done in Colorado due to the base level of the 14,000 foot peaks being well above 5,000. It can be done in California but only at a place like Mt. Whitney with a low base below a high mountain or Alaska or Hawaii.
Now maybe you mean counting the same elevation gain multiple times with going down before going up again. The total uphill portion of multiple hills or mountains could exceed 11,500 feet even if no individual peak was more than 1/4 of that.
Pennsylvania does has many small hills. Anybody who has ever driven Interstate 80 from Delaware Water Gap all the way to the Shenango River at its western edge can attest to this. It would be the same crossing southwest Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to Cumberland MD.
georgiapeach:
I sorta remember Phil saying the ride thru PA had the most total climbing of any day...
The recap highlight show they aired at the CBS party right before the finale of TAR started. It is fun to see...
And it is NOT too late to contribute to Phil's ride, MS is an awful disease and most of us know someone touched by this. so contribute if yoiu can, every $$ helps!!
TARAsia Fan:
--- Quote from: apskip on May 13, 2009, 10:07:12 AM ---Ken, thanks for giving us all easy access to the photos and videos of Phil's trip. From the standpoint of geography, I am amused by some of your probably intentional errors. For example:
--- Quote ---This is Day 36. Phil goes from Pittsburgh, PA into Frostburg, MD. Phil goes up some 11,500 feet. Wow. And Phil loses it a bit.
--- End quote ---
I think that is possible, but he would have to ride elevators in Pittsburgh for a long time to do that. The highest
point in Pennsylvania is Mt. Adams in the southwest part of the state at 3213 feet. Just a bit shy of 11,500 feet, which can't even be done in Colorado due to the base level of the 14,000 foot peaks being well above 5,000. It can be done in California but only at a place like Mt. Whitney with a low base below a high mountain or Alaska or Hawaii.
Now maybe you mean counting the same elevation gain multiple times with going down before going up again. The total uphill portion of multiple hills or mountains could exceed 11,500 feet even if no individual peak was more than 1/4 of that.
Pennsylvania does has many small hills. Anybody who has ever driven Interstate 80 from Delaware Water Gap all the way to the Shenango River at its western edge can attest to this. It would be the same crossing southwest Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to Cumberland MD.
--- End quote ---
ap, I am going off the video where Phil looks at his gage and mentions that they climbed a total of 11,500 feet. Watch the video there. What you say is probably correct, they they go by the total amount they climbed that day.
puddin:
I never did figure out Phils route through Pa.? I know it wasn't RT 80 or the Turnpike for sure as bikes and pedestrians are not allowed.
Check out some of the highlights of Phil's ride across America
apskip:
puddin, I cannot say for sure which route Phil took, but it is clear that he ended up in Frostburg MD. That means Interstate 68/US 40 at exit 33 or Alternate US40 into Frostburg. There are two ways he could have gotten there:
1. PA 51 south from Pittsburgh to Uniontown, then US40 east to connect at exit 14 of US68 where those two highways merge or at exit 14 stay on what is there known as Alternate US40 or
2. east from Pittsburgh on Interstate 376 to Interstate 70/76 the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the Somerset exit, then PA 31 east for 2 miles to PA 160 for maybe 3 miles to Brotherton, then the connecting road to Garrett, where US219 is joined for 4 miles, then southeast through Meyerdale, Glade City and Pocohontas southeast on a county road to the Maryland border where it becomes MD546 for maybe 6 miles until it joins either Alternate US40 of I68/US40 maybe 5 miles west of Frostburg.
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