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Old 10-16-2007, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Beautiful East TN!!
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There are 22 populated places in TN named "Midway" and the highest one's in Washington County.
Oh, then it is "Our" Midway then hahahhaha.
Thanks for clearing that up for us all.
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Old 10-16-2007, 02:32 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Holy cow, the WSMV tower is 1200 feet tall??
I was thinking it was 1300. I looked it up; it's 1368 feet tall on a hill 680 feet above sea level. So the top is actually 2048 feet about sea level.
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Old 10-16-2007, 02:38 PM
 
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I was thinking it was 1300. I looked it up; it's 1368 feet tall on a hill 680 feet above sea level. So the top is actually 2048 feet about sea level.
Holy cow that's tall. I bet it's nice and windy up there. I wonder how much they pay the guy who gets to climb up it and change the light bulbs.
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Old 10-16-2007, 02:45 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Holy cow that's tall. I bet it's nice and windy up there. I wonder how much they pay the guy who gets to climb up it and change the light bulbs.
I just know who is not going to climb up there and change the bulbs. It was bad enough being up in the tippy-top of the BellSouth building spire when it was first finished. Especially since one of the steel tubes up there had cracked when it was under construction. Uh, oh. That's not good, is it? ;-(
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Old 10-16-2007, 02:58 PM
 
Location: Beautiful East TN!!
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Holy cow that's tall. I bet it's nice and windy up there. I wonder how much they pay the guy who gets to climb up it and change the light bulbs.
Not enough!
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Old 10-16-2007, 03:18 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Not enough!
Oh, those guys don't care. We have some photos in my office of Rockefeller Center being built in 1932. In one of the photos a bunch of guys are taking a nap on a beam 60 stories or so up in the air. The beam is maybe two feet wide.

In another photo a group is having lunch. One guy has a whiskey bottle.
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Old 10-16-2007, 03:24 PM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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Oh, those guys don't care. We have some photos in my office of Rockefeller Center being built in 1932. In one of the photos a bunch of guys are taking a nap on a beam 60 stories or so up in the air. The beam is maybe two feet wide.

In another photo a group is having lunch. One guy has a whiskey bottle.
Wow. Being on the second floor makes me nervous.
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Old 10-16-2007, 07:40 PM
 
Location: Atlanta suburb
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Default Lots of mighty high areas. Thanks, kamoshika!

I know that when we get to the top of Brasstown Bald in N. GA we are at 4784 ft. As we look off to the north at TN, it looks like there are some peaks that are as high or higher than that!

Do folks who live up there use oxygen masks or are they all acclimated like the Sherpas?
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Old 10-17-2007, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Seattle
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Ooh, Butler made the list. Very pretty area up in Johnson County.
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Old 10-17-2007, 11:28 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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I know that when we get to the top of Brasstown Bald in N. GA we are at 4784 ft. As we look off to the north at TN, it looks like there are some peaks that are as high or higher than that!

Do folks who live up there use oxygen masks or are they all acclimated like the Sherpas?
Clingman's Dome in the Smokey's is the highest point in Tennessee at 6643 feet. I've been to the top of it . . . it's a little chilly up there in the morning, even in summer.
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