I'm gonna climb me a mountain
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:03 pm
[img3="The "summit" of Mount Sunflower
<<Mount Sunflower, although not a true mountain, is the highest point in the state of Kansas. At 1,231 m, it is 1,010 m feet above the state's topographic low point in Montgomery County in southeastern Kansas due to the gradual rise towards the Rocky Mountains to the west. Located in Wallace County, it is less than half a mile (0.8 km) from the Colorado state border and close to the lowest point in Colorado.
Mount Sunflower is located on private land owned by Mike and Rae Marie Jones, who encourage visitors to the site. Amenities include a picnic table, a sunflower sculpture made from railroad spikes, and a plaque that states "nothing happened here in 1897."
Access is via county dirt roads to the edge of the property, then across a cattle guard and onto a private dirt road through a cattle grazing pasture to the summit.
The state of Kansas gradually increases in elevation from the east to the west. As such, "Mount" Sunflower, while the highest point in the state in terms of elevation, is indistinguishable from the surrounding terrain.>>
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sunflower"]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... Summit.jpg[/img3]
[img3="The summit of "Mount Moonflower"<<Mount Sunflower, although not a true mountain, is the highest point in the state of Kansas. At 1,231 m, it is 1,010 m feet above the state's topographic low point in Montgomery County in southeastern Kansas due to the gradual rise towards the Rocky Mountains to the west. Located in Wallace County, it is less than half a mile (0.8 km) from the Colorado state border and close to the lowest point in Colorado.
Mount Sunflower is located on private land owned by Mike and Rae Marie Jones, who encourage visitors to the site. Amenities include a picnic table, a sunflower sculpture made from railroad spikes, and a plaque that states "nothing happened here in 1897."
Access is via county dirt roads to the edge of the property, then across a cattle guard and onto a private dirt road through a cattle grazing pasture to the summit.
The state of Kansas gradually increases in elevation from the east to the west. As such, "Mount" Sunflower, while the highest point in the state in terms of elevation, is indistinguishable from the surrounding terrain.>>
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sunflower"]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... Summit.jpg[/img3]
<<The red arrow points to the highest-elevation point on the Moon, which measured 10,786 meters above the mean lunar elevation. On Earth, Venus, and Mars' high points are all in mountains. Mount Everest at 8,848 meters and Venus's Maxwell Montes were built by tectonics. Mars lacked those kind of mountain-building compressional tectonics, but it compensates with the biggest volcanoes in the solar system; its Olympus Mons rises 21 kilometers above Mars' mean elevation.
This lunar high point is just kind of a nameless spot in the middle of a fairly typical-looking highland landscape with lots of craters. This high point wasn't built by tectonic or volcanic processes; it's just a spot where the ejecta from one of the solar system's greatest impact craters, the south polar-Aitken basin, happened to pile to its deepest level, and was not subsequently whittled down by other, smaller craters. It's possible that a couple of later impact craters (like Engel'gardt) piled more stuff on top of the spot.>>
- http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002792/"]http://www.planetary.org/image/hpoint_highsun_lg.png[/img3]
