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Michel
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Location: Norway
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 Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject: Norway WAS: Kitfox week-end |
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On Jun 19, 2006, at 8:44 PM, Rueb, Duane wrote:
| Quote: | so I would guess that you may be flying approximately at 10,000ft MSL.
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Good Lord, no, Duane. I was more at 4,500 feet AMSL. You see, Norway
and Sweden is a big chump of granite that was pressed down by the last
ice age. As the climate became warmer, the glaciers melted into many
streams that eroded the rock making deep valleys under the water. As
the ice vanished, the continental plate started rising and it still
does it today. In the Viking's time, the sea level was about two meters
higher than now.
South Norway is a central plateau, about 5,000 ft above sea level. But
the fjords are going down to sea level and, at some places, maybe
another 2,000 ft deep. But there are very few mountain tops. If you see
snow on them, that's because ... we are north of latitude 60, about the
same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska.
In south Norway, the "tree limit" i.e. the highest altitude pines and
birch trees can grow, is about 3,000 ft and that goes down, toward the
north, to be sea level, up north, where Torgeir lives.
The only reason Norway is inhabitable is thanks to the Gulfstream
current that warms up our shores. So, please, don't stop that water
from coming out of the Gulf of Mexico, thanks! 
Cheers,
Michel
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:19 am Post subject: Norway WAS: Kitfox week-end |
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<snip>
So, please, don't stop that water
from coming out of the Gulf of Mexico, thanks!
Cheers,
Michel
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<snip>
Michel,
If you fellas would take the occasional hurricane that comes with living
next to that nice warm Gulf of Mexico water we would call it even 
Jeremy "next door to Gulf of Mexico" Casey
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