Talk:Mount Mitchell

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_ _Someone should talk a bit more about the environmental problems faced by Mt. Mitchell, having backpacked from the town of Montreat to Mtfgerws. Mitchell is myself, I have seen the devastating effects that the acid rain caught in the mountains rain shadow has created. Most everything near the top is dead, large patches of ground are windswept (i forget the term, acid rain kills one tree, and that exposes area to wind which knocks over other trees creating more exposed area... you have a chain effect before long). At the ranger station near the top there is even a bulletin board trying to promote awareness of this problem. It should be addressed more here, I would write it up myself, but I'm afraid I'm not comfortable enough w/ the wikipedia syntax (and my spelling is awefull) to actually write an article.
Leif902 00:40, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

message: :I went on a tour with a ranger at nearby Clingman's Dome in 2005 and he said that it's an urban legend that acid rain caused most of the devastation. He said it was actually caused by a boorer beatle ( I think ) or some kind of insect that arrived in America from Europe that attacks fir trees above a certain elevation. The havoc is mostly among this one type of tree and some tree species seem to be unaffected. Let us figure out what really caused the damage with sources before we jump to conclusions. --Triadian (talk) 21:15, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Fraser firs were killed by the Balsam woolly adelgid (the ranger was probably referring to this).  Current research suggests acid rain harms red spruce trees by stunting their growth, but to what extent is uncertain.  Air pollutants are more harmful at the higher altitudes because these elevations are draped in clouds 25-30% of the time.  I've added a source to the article.  Bms4880 (talk) 13:30, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be it. Very well done Bms4880! --Triadian (talk) 00:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
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message: I have moved the disambiguation page to Mount Mitchell (disambiguation) and caused Mt. Mitchell and Mount Mitchell to link to this article. This was discussed by two others and it seemed the right thing to do since this is the most well known of the mountains. I also changed links wherever I found them. I really hope this helps, and please fix any broken links or double redirects you find. Leif902 01:30, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect 

message: To answer Jerzy, there are mountains in the islands in the Caribbean, which is geographically considered a part of North America, that are higher than Mitchell, notably Blue Mountain Peak in Jamaica and Pico Duarte in the Dominican Republic. I was using Google Earth to measure distances from Mount Mitchell to Harney Peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota, which the article states is the closest higher peak east of the Rockies and distances to higher points in New Mexico and Colorado which I found are higher than Harney Peak and closer to Mitchell than the Black Hills' summit.
Using the ruler in Google Earth, I found that the distance from Mount Mitchell to Harney Peak is 1,256 miles (2021 kilometers).  From measurements I made, I found that Fishers Peak, south of Trinidad, Colorado, at 9,580 feet (2920 meters), is 1,236 miles (1989 kilometers) from Mitchell, making it 20 miles closer than Harney Peak.  Fishers Peak is a butte at the northwest end of a plateau on the Colorado-New Mexico border and, since it is east of Raton Pass, some consider it to be east of the Rocky Mountains as well, and also the highest point east of the Rockies.  Laughlin Peak, in Colfax County, New Mexico at 8,799 feet (2,682 meters), is 1,222 miles (1967 kilometers) from Mitchell.  Even closer, at 1,205 miles (1939 kilometers), is Sierra Grande in Union County, New Mexico, whose elevation is 8,720 ft (2,658 m).  There are other peaks in the Raton-Clayton volcanic field of New Mexico that also exceed Harney Peak in height and are closer to Mount Mitchell as well.
Using the ruler, it appears that Lone Butte, in Las Animas County, Colorado, is the closest higher point to Mount Mitchell.
I'm sure there are sources to back up my findings.
S Martin (talk) 09:54, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distances to higher points 

message: What does it mean to say that Still, hundreds of tourists visit the peak each spring through autumn, for its incredible views and sunsets? Is that hundreds of visitors each day from spring through autumn? Or hundreds of visitors in the entire period from spring to autumn (this sounds way too low to me, but is how I would ordinarily interpret that syntax). 206.208.105.129 (talk) 18:07, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Statement removed.  Bms4880 (talk) 18:36, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  number of visitors 

message: The elevation now used in this article, cited in that 2012 National Geodetic Survey page, is for the new marker atop the new observation platform. The platform is a man-made structure. The mountain itself is still 6684 ft in elevation - the rocks marking the highest point were not altered in its construction. Do we want the elevation in this article to reflect the mountain, or structures constructed atop the mountain?
Not that it matters, but I myself have made multiple GPS measurements of the highest remaining natural rock atop the summit, over multiple years, all agreeing with the 6684 ft. measurement.
Wxtrails (talk) 16:11, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and reverted back to the old elevation.  Bms4880 (talk) 17:27, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated Elevation 

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