<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">A message from Leslie Quinn <A href="mailto:ruthleslie@ispwest.com">ruthleslie@ispwest.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">So what would be the length of the Mississippi-Missouri-Yellowstone-Atlantic Creek-Two Ocean Pass-Pacific Creek-Snake River-Columbia River? If memory serves, at "The Parting of the Waters" (just north of Two Ocean Pass and intimately connected with it) it gives the distances as around 1300+ miles to the Pacific and 3700+ to the Atlantic, which would make around 5000 miles, although I might not be remembering correctly. On the other hand, the old saw that a fish could use it to swim from one ocean to the other isn't really true, as the Lower Falls would be a tough one to jump, and if you wanted to travel east the Snake has a few of its own as well. But probably someone having fun with some fractals could throw all the figures on their heads anyway...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Weren't we supposed to talk about geysers here?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Just one of the rabble,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Leslie</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>