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carlb328
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My newest video is about Washington's Biggest Mountain Lakes. You can see it here:
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HitTheTrail
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Lake Chelan?
15.8 million acre/feet volume
33K acres
1486 ft deep
55 miles long
From the tip of Pyramid Mt. to the bottom of Lucerne basin in lake chelan just below it the biggest vertical drop in north America.
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carlb328
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Waptus lake is in Eastern Washington, but below 3500 ft elevation, but you included it. So it seems your criteria is a bit flexible.
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Malachai Constant
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| HitTheTrail wrote: | | Lake Chelan
From the tip of Pyramid Mt. to the bottom of Lucerne basin in lake chelan just below it the biggest vertical drop in north America. |
And the most scenic outhouse in the state
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Riverside Laker
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| HitTheTrail wrote: | | From the tip of Pyramid Mt. to the bottom of Lucerne basin in lake chelan just below it the biggest vertical drop in north America. |
That may depend of the definition. Pyramid is 8243, the bottom of the lake at -388, for a total of 8631'.
Telescope Peak in Death Valley NP is 11,048, with the valley -282, for a total of 11,330'.
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HitTheTrail
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| Riverside Laker wrote: | | That may depend of the definition. |
OK, fair enough. But the offset at Lake Chelan is just over three miles between min and max. In Death Valley it is around 11 miles. You could probably find lots of points with a bigger drop if you ease the restriction of the horizontal offset. I was just trying to make a point that the Pyramid-Lake Chelan basin drop ranks right up there with Hells Canyon and the Grand Canyon.
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Worthington
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| Riverside Laker wrote: | | HitTheTrail wrote: | | From the tip of Pyramid Mt. to the bottom of Lucerne basin in lake chelan just below it the biggest vertical drop in north America. |
That may depend of the definition. Pyramid is 8243, the bottom of the lake at -388, for a total of 8631'.
Telescope Peak in Death Valley NP is 11,048, with the valley -282, for a total of 11,330'. |
And neither is a vertical drop, as quoted.
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HitTheTrail
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| Worthington wrote: | | And neither is a vertical drop, as quoted. |
True dat! But very few places are. The Grand Canyon is 18 miles wide and Hells is 10 miles wide, so measuring to the lowest point could be an offset of 9 or 5 miles respectively. And most big peaks have a wide horizontal offset to get the maximum drop.
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Malachai Constant
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Supposedly the biggest vertical drop in the world is on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic at over 4000’ and is actually overhung at 105 degrees. El Cap is 3000’. In WA I do not know for sure but Baring and Bear have some pretty serious sheer drops.
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Eric Hansen
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Notch Peak, in Utah's West Desert, has an epic sheer drop.
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