New guy from Denmark, Europe.

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Originally Posted by snake

Occasionally, around the campfire, when uninhibited from consuming a little too much whiskey, I tell tales of my ascent up Denmark's higest peak.

"Highest peak", huh?
176 meters?
Himmelbjerget?
Which - WAS - the highest "peak" until they flattened out the top to build the tower - then it became either Yding Skovhøj, or Ejer Bavnehøj that is now "officially" the highest "peak".

I remember once when I was a kid, sitting on our living room floor in our home in Hasselager outside of Aarhus, planing a family vacation (Mom Danish, Dad American), discussing with Mom which was the highest of the 3 - when Dad suddenly bursts out with "Ha, ha! My sandbox is bigger than your sandbox!", comparing those 3 to the Rockies...

Those were the days.

Velkommen til Airstream Forum, Lars - selvom jeg er nyere medlem end du. Jeg bor i øjeblikket i Washington Stat, men har boet i Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Indiana Oregon, og Georgia siden jeg kom hertil i 1989 som 24-årig.

Perhaps we'll cross paths some day in our respective Airstreams!

Cheers!

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Originally Posted by Octane

Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur

Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur:
- Anything said in Latin sounds profound

In Denmark - in 1979 - Latin was an electoral in 9Th grade...

Illegitimi non carborundum!

Læstolæs kulitorum etihvertrum...
Alle vilover hvorgærdet erlavest.

OK - Lars will identify those last 2 as NOT Latin - but "Latinized Danish" through the lack of spaces between words.

Oh - and by the way - it appears I was wrong about the "highest peaks" in Denmark. The correct info:

Himmelbjerget: 147 meters

Yding Skovhøj is 172.54 meters when the height of one of the Bronze Age burial mounds built on the top of the hill is included. If these man-made structures are ignored the hill's high-point is at 170.77 m, which is 9 cm lower than Denmark's highest natural point, Møllehøj at 170.86 m.

Ejer Bavnehøj is Denmark's third highest natural point at 170.35 m.

Møllehøj is the highest natural point in Denmark at 170.86 meters (561 ft)

Source: Wikipedia.

Ejer Bavnehøj had been measured as the highest point in Denmark in the mid-nineteenth century but in 1941 new measurements established that the top of one of Yding Skovhøj's burial mounds was higher. This started a violent discussion about whether man-made structures could be counted as part of Denmark's highest point which finished with Professor N.E. Nørlund defining the highest point as being the highest natural point, without including the height of man-made piles of earth. As Ejer Bavnehøj was higher than the highest natural point of Yding Skovhøj it was then regarded as being Denmark's highest point until February 2005 when researchers discovered that in reality Møllehøj was slightly taller.

So - my Dad's comment "Ha, ha! Your sandbox is higher than my sandbox!" is pretty much on the mark. 9 cm difference? That's not even a full 4".

OK - sorry for the "off-topic" post - let's return to the business of having fun with our Airstreams - in which we might actually travel to some of these interesting places.