estimate power output

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

01-29-17 | 10:52 AM

#26

Seattle Forrest

Senior Member

Joined: Mar 2010

Posts: 23,208

Likes: 10,653

From: Seattle, WA

Quote:

Originally Posted by noglider

It certainly does. My route has shifty winds, since the sides of the river have steep cliffs and the river is over a mile wide. It usually does change overall direction between morning and evening.

Holy crap! The biggest lake in my state is about a mile wide on average.

01-29-17 | 04:55 PM

#27

noglider

Thread Starter

aka Tom Reingold

Joined: Jan 2009

Posts: 44,306

Likes: 6,566

From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA

Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seattle Forrest

Holy crap! The biggest lake in my state is about a mile wide on average.

Yeah, it's huge, and it's unlike other rivers. It is actually a fjord, not a river. If I'm not mistaken, a river is formed by water coming down from the mountains whereas a fjord is formed by receding glaciers. The flow is slow, and the river is very deep, and, as I said, we have really tall and steep cliffs on the sides, though not as tall as the fjords of Norway. Check out the images of it you can see on google images.

Another thing I like about the Hudson River is that the views are spectacular everywhere I've seen it. I'm not sure, but I think I've been as far north as the city of Hudson, and maybe farther north. The mouth of the river is the Upper New York Bay in the New York Harbor. There it is very urban scenery, but the bay is quite wide in every direction.

__________________
Tom Reingold, tom@noglider.com
New York City and High Falls, NY
Blogs: The Experienced Cyclist; noglider's ride blog

“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.” — Elizabeth West, US author

Please email me rather than PM'ing me. Thanks.

01-29-17 | 05:09 PM

#28

noglider

Thread Starter

aka Tom Reingold

Joined: Jan 2009

Posts: 44,306

Likes: 6,566

From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA

Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem

I see Lake Chelan in Washington is 52 square miles, so you don't have any lakes that compare with the Great Lakes. Some places have big lakes, some have small lakes.