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Title: How's Glowbull Warming working in your area?
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Published: Apr 30, 2011
Author: abraxas
Post Date: 2011-04-30 17:48:00 by abraxas
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Comments: 31
How's Glowbull Warming working in your area? Around here it was snowing a couple of nights ago. Down right nippy today, although the sun is shining. It's been a long time since I've seen the amount of snow on the mountain peaks that we have right now. Looks like planting the garden will need to be pushed out several weeks as well. Usually, by the end of April, I'm getting ready to climb a few mountains. Looks like the climbing will have to wait unless I want to bring along my snow boots and parka.
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#22. To: abraxas (#0)
Come to Florida dear. We dont have mountains (actually we do, but it's such a gentle slope no one knows it), but we currently have dry upper 70's to 90 temps, oil free beaches, forest hiking trails, and a naked Armadillo running around.
The weather sounds lovely, but you don't have mountains Sweetie. You have hills and the highest one in FL is a whopping 344 feet above sea level. lol I was planning on climbing Mt. Rose again, which is 10,776 feet at the summit and Mt. Lassen, which is 10,462 at the top, and Freel Peak at 10,886. Towards the end of the summer, I want to take on one of the 14K foot summits in CA on a multiple day trip. That full body sunburn sounds painful. Poor Dillo!! Hope you have some Aloe Vera and a Vera to slather it on. : )
Well, they have "mountian" in their names. :) You must be in good shape to be climbing some real mountains. Climbing 10776 feet would kill me. I'm sure the climbing is fun. Too bad about the Gore-Effect snow eveywhere.
Climbing gets me in better shape. A tad soft after finishing up all my research projects and such. Sea level to 10K would require a bit of acclimation. : ) Mount Rose is a few hours to go up and down, there's a trail head at about 5 miles from the summit, leaving about 2000 feet in elevation to climb up. Here's a picture from Slide Mountain on one trail~ And from the summit you can see Lake Tahoe:
The only time in my life that I have ever experienced altitude sickness was doing a fast hike from the campground at Miller Lake to Maidu Lake to do a little morning fishing. This is in the Cascades near Crater Lake. I started at about 6,600 and it was up to about 8,000. Durn fool thing - I just never thought of it because I had never experienced it before at any altitude I had hiked at. It was no doubt mainly because I was pushing hard all the way up so I could get there early enough in the morning. Took me two days to get over the headache.
Yes, speed can be an enemy when moving upward by thousands of feet. For folks who are generally acclimated at around 5K it is less of a problem to move upward double that. But folks who are used to sea level, like Dillo, need additional time to get used to moving with less oxygen supply. When I take on about 14K, those are generally guided hikes with a well planned camp over at the higher altitude to acclimate. Still, folks who would never think to have an effects from it often encounter some. One friend who is in very good shape experienced this last summer, along with many others. : )
#29. To: abraxas, Armadillo (#28)
I think you hit the nail on the head. Too many years now living at sea level myself. Where I live now I'm only about 200 feet above sea level. When I was a kid in Anaconda we were already slightly over a mile above sea level and it never bothered me even when we went backpacking into the "high" mountains. My first backpacking trip was at age 7 up to Twin Lakes in North Central to Northeast Montana and we had to have been up around 9,000. The only thing I noticed was the damn mosquitoes. Good fishing though. ;-)
I think I'll stay down here where the air is nice and thick.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestLooks like the climbing will have to wait unless I want to bring along my snow boots and parka.
Bring sunscreen. I got a full-body sunburn. Ouch.
#23. To: Armadillo (#22)
(actually we do, but it's such a gentle slope no one knows it)
#24. To: abraxas (#23)
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Iron Mountain, Sugarloaf Mountain.
And Im loaded up on 100% Aloe Vera gel. That stuff is wonderful. I need a bathtub full to soak in.
A "Vera" would be nice, or even a "Donna". I'm not picky. ;).
#25. To: Armadillo (#24)
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You must be in good shape to be climbing some real mountains. Climbing 10776 feet would kill me. I'm sure the climbing is fun. Too bad about the Gore-Effect snow eveywhere.
#27. To: abraxas (#25)
#28. To: Original_Intent, Armadillo (#27)
It was no doubt mainly because I was pushing hard all the way up so I could get there early enough in the morning. Took me two days to get over the headache.
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#30. To: abraxas, Original_Intent (#28)
But folks who are used to sea level, like Dillo, need additional time to get used to moving with less oxygen supply.
I'm rather fond of air, and breathing. :)
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