Talk:Pryor Mountains

highest point?
Could someone please explain to me what is up with the highest point on this page and some of the other mountain range pages.The highest point in the Pryor mountains is listed under the image as 6,417 ft (1,956 m). yet the tallest peak in the Pryors is 8,822 on east Pryor mountain. There may be a perfectly logical explanation for this but from where I set I can’t see what is could be. If it says “highest point” wouldn’t that mean the highest point? And wouldn’t that be east Pryor Mountain? Or does highest point mean something like, oh just some point not necessarily the highest.

I noticed in the Beartooth range the highest point actually is the highest point.

Please explain!

Linda Rider (talk) 04:47, 24 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't do the geography/geology articles, so I'll let Mike explain what's up with that, though I noticed he corrected the info in the article. I think part of what's going on is a fairly massive effort on Wikipedia to have at least a brief article on virtually every significant mountain range in the USA (or at least Montana) and I think that there's a lot of wholesale data retrieval from various USGS sites without a ton of individual analysis going on.  (Go check out WikiProject Montana's list of newly created articles, you'll see the situation)  Apparently, there's some data that averages elevation in some fashion and seems to consistently be lower than the highest elevation in a range.  However, as I spend 99% of my time working in a different area of wikipedia (the horse articles), I'm not in a position to go and review all this stuff.   I seem to spend most of my time reverting vandalism out of a couple of the Montana community articles where the local middle school kids seem driven to insert their friends' names into the "notable residents" section, usually with a comment about their sexual proclivities...  :-P   .   Montanabw (talk) 19:15, 24 December 2010 (UTC)