Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:43 am
radson wrote:I always thought Mt Kenya to Kili was the furtherest visible distance between two pints?
I'd be curious about the distance of the sight line between Mt Kenya and Kili also. When I was in Kenya a few years ago, I spotted the peaks of Mt Kenya shining in the sun waaaay in the distance and pointed it out to my Kenyan host. He didn't think it was it and had never noticed it before. We checked on a map and there was no doubt, it had to be Mt Kenya. Very distinct shape to the peaks.
Later when we were in Eldoret, I spotted Mt Eglon (a 14er) in Uganda dozens of miles away in the distance. And again, my Kenyan host was surprised and had never noticed it way away on the horizon.
The rest of the week, I had fun joking with him. Every now and then, I'd point and say, "Hey, look... there's Kilimanjaro..." (which wasn't visible where we were... and he had hiked it years ago)
This past summer, when I was driving westward across Washington state, I spotted Mt Rainier in the morning sun ~140 miles away on the interstate and pointed it out to the family. It just slowly rose on the horizon. Climbed it a few days later.
I also spotted Mt Shasta way in the distance from Mt Scott (high point at Crater Lake). It was probably ~100 miles away or so.