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Skriven 2009-03-01 11:51:24 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 28283 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Question
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28 Feb 09 22:56, Ward Dossche wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Actually, Rogers Pass is between all three. Helena is southwest of
 RW>> Great Falls and Rogers Pass is between them. Missoula is to the
 RW>> west-south-west of Great Falls and west-north-west of Helena. Draw a
 RW>> line between all three places and you have a triangle, with Rogers
 RW>> Pass almost in line with the longest leg of an obtuse triangle.

 WD> That is geographical nonsense.

I knew you weren't smart enough to figure that out.

Straight lines drawn on maps equal 'as the crow flys'...however, man is
bound by gravity and roads, so he must go out of his way to get to the
same destination as the crow, or else fly like the crow does.

A line drawn on the map from Missoula to Great Falls, almost intersects
Rogers Pass. Shy perhaps by 10 miles. A line drawn on the map from Great
Falls to Helena creates another leg of the triangle I spoke of. The final
line drawn on that map from Helena to Missoula completes the triangle.

Again, in case you haven't figured it out yet: a straight line would be
the shortest distance from one point to another on any map.

US I-15 and I-90 intersect at Butte. Great Falls is NNE of Butte and you
have to travel through Helena to get there. Missoula is on I-90 and is 119
miles distant from Butte by road. Great Falls to Butte is 156 miles by
road.

Missoula to Great Falls, going through Butte, is 275 miles, 3hrs and
52min.

Missoula to Great Falls, going through Rogers Pass is only 169 miles, but
takes 4 min longer via MT-200 E because it's not a multi-laned interstate.

Just because you 'visit' Montana a few weeks out of a year, doesn't make
you an expert about anything in Montana.

                R\%/itt


"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man
 who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson


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