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- From: joe@robin.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Joe.Fernandez)
- Subject: Re: Hawaii
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.213247.779@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
- Sender: news@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM (News Owner)
- Reply-To: joe@robin.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Joe.Fernandez)
- Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo
- References: <BzMw50.3B2@ncube.com> <122930235@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <1992Dec23.163407.13955@osf.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:32:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.163407.13955@osf.org> ron@osf.org (Ron Birnbaum) writes:
- >In article <122930235@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, byrnes@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John Byrnes) writes:
- >|> >
- >|> > Has anyone skied in Hawaii? I am heading there for Xmass.
- >|> > Is it worth skiing? Or people just do it to have said:
- >|> >
- >|> > I skied in Hawaii...
- >|> >
- >|>
- >|> It's beyond me why anyone would travel to Hawaii to ski. It must be
- >|> those same people who I meet on the chair-lifts who always want it to be
- >|> warm and sunny when they're skiing.
- >
- > Well, their aren't any chair lifts in Hawaii, although some people do ski
- >down one of the big volcanic mountains on the big island of Hawaii - called
- >Hawaii! But don't look for skiing often, as it's only available for a short time
- It's Mauna Kea (13,784 ft.) which is an extinct volcano. That's where you
- can also find all those BIG telescopes at the top.
-
- There's also Mauna Loa (13,680 ft.) which is active!
-
- --Joe
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