high-peaks.csv

Hiking the 46 Adirondack High Peaks is recognized as one of the greatest challenges in the Adirondack Park. The data in high-peaks.csv includes information about the $N=46$ mountains in the Adirondack Park. It was made available by Adirondack.net (2024).

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The attributes included in the data are:

• peak: Name of the mountain
• elevation: Elevation of the mountain (in feet)
• difficulty: Rated difficulty level of the hike from 1 (easiest) to 7 (most difficiult)
• ascent: Ascent of the climb (in feet)
• length: Length of the hike, round trip (in miles)
• time: Typical hike time (in hours)

Preview

# Load library
library(tidyverse)

# Import data
high_peaks = read_csv(file = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zief0002/epsy-5261/main/data/high-peaks.csv")

# View data
high_peaks

# A tibble: 46 × 6
   peak           elevation difficulty ascent length  time
   <chr>              <dbl>      <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl> <dbl>
 1 Mt. Marcy           5344          5   3166   14.8  10  
 2 Algonquin Peak      5114          5   2936    9.6   9  
 3 Mt. Haystack        4960          7   3570   17.8  12  
 4 Mt. Skylight        4926          7   4265   17.9  15  
 5 Whiteface Mtn.      4867          4   2535   10.4   8.5
 6 Dix Mtn.            4857          5   2800   13.2  10  
 7 Gray Peak           4840          7   4178   16    14  
 8 Iroquois Peak       4840          6   3250   11.6   8.5
 9 Basin Mtn.          4827          6   3650   16.5  11  
10 Gothics             4736          5   4070   10     9  
# ℹ 36 more rows

References

Adirondack.net. (2024). The 46 Adirondack high peaks. https://www.adirondack.net/hiking/high-peaks/