[pct-l] Temperature Ranges Temp Buttons

[Andrew McDavid]

Do you know how many nights total each hiker accrued?

On 2/13/07, Bill Batchelor <billbatch at cox.net> wrote:
>
>
> I did some analysis of the temperature experiences of the five hikers that
> carried those little temp log devices in 2006.  I found it very
> interesting.
> These devices took a reading every hour.  These hikers were not together,
> so
> the readings are from very different experiences and places.  This
> variation
> makes the data all the more useful.
>
> Some of the data is obviously anomalous (the anomalies seemed to be
> related
> to one hiker in particular).  The anomalies are easy to spot where the
> temperature fluctuates too wildly in an hour like this 89, 92, 12, 93, 89,
> 86.   So, I removed the anomalies.
>
> I was curious to see the number of nights around or below freezing.  Here
> is
> what I found.
>
> A couple hikers had nights around 20, though no more than two nights each.
> These were very rare and were probably avoidable if they wanted to "hike
> high, camp low".
>
> Here are the numbers that I chose to look at:
>
> A = # of nights at or below 35
> B = # of nights at or below 32
> C = # of nights at or below 30
> D = # of nights at or below 26
>
> The numbers are collective and include all the nights in the lower temp
> groups.  So, item A at "below 35" is a total including the nights below
> 32,
> below 30, below 26.  Hence, item A includes all of A,B,C&D.  B includes
> all
> of B,C&D.  C includes C&D.
>
> AVERAGE HIKER IN GROUP
> A 7
> B 3.5
> C 2.5
> D 1.5
>
> ADAM
> A 8
> B 4
> C 2
> D 2
>
> MATT C
> A 1
> B 0
> C 0
> D 0
>
> ROBERT
> A 5
> B 2
> C 2
> D 1
>
> MICHAEL
> A 15
> B 10
> C 5
> D 3
>
> MATT M
> A 5
> B 0
> C 0
> D 0
>
> JEFF
> A 8
> B 6
> C 5
> D 4
>
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