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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: Mt. Baldy 1/19
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 01:17:37 GMT
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- >Base: Adequate (The snow cat on top of Thunder Mt. is buried up to
- > mid windshield)
- >New stuff: 6" of semi dry "powder"
-
- A minor point here.
- While one appreciates the description of 'adequate' and 'new,' a number of us
- do this because we record the storm and snow history for watching avalanches,
- which while "adequate" might be cute, it tells us a little more about the
- snow pack. We aren't trying to boast or defect, we are just trying to stay
- alive.
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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