Just found out Denali's actual height got remeasured in 2015 and it nearly wrecked my hiking plans

I was mapping a route for next summer and the USGS page said 20,310 feet now, not the 20,320 I'd been quoting for years, so has anyone else adjusted their gear lists because of that one lousy measurement update?

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harperwright19d ago

Did you hear they also recalibrated a bunch of other mountain heights with that new GPS tech? I saw a geologist post about it, saying the old numbers were based on older surveys that were off by a few feet. Honestly, I’d just plan for a tougher climb anyway, since weather and trail conditions always hit harder than the map says.