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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 08:58 PM
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Your highest/lowest land altitudes?
Highest: Beartooth Scenic Highway in Wyoming: 10,974 feet.

Lowest: Sea level. (I have yet to visit Death Valley, CA, which is below sea level)
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 08:59 PM
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1. More geography
Highest - Pike's Peak, 14110'
Lowest - I've been through Death Valley
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 08:59 PM
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2. Highest: Pike's Peak - 14,110 feet
Edited on Tue Apr-24-07 08:59 PM by rockymountaindem
Lowest: I went in a real submarine one time in Hawaii that took me to 150 feet below sea level.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:00 PM
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3. Highest: A glacier in Rocky Moutain National Park, 11K plus, I think.
Lowest: I've been to Badwater.

Redstone
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:03 PM
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4. Highest: Pikes Peak, 14,110 feet (although I'm not sure how high up you can get by car)
Lowest: A few feet below sea level, in New Orleans.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 12:22 AM
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15. Did you take the cog railway to the peak?
Have taken it a couple of times...loved it!
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 10:14 AM
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39. Highest...halfway up Pikes Peak
I think. Lowest...Death Valley.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:06 PM
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5. only know the tallest due to other posters
Edited on Tue Apr-24-07 09:07 PM by salin
I was at Pikes Peak years ago.

I also lived/work in DC, which i believe is below Sea level (which is why the humidity is so awful in the later summer ... the hot weather would gather and then stop (as the altitude climbed to sea level further east) and wouldn't move on until a storm with strong enough winds could push the hot / humid air through. Or so the local lore went in the eighties.)
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:08 PM
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7. I've been to D.C. several times
Didn't know about the altitude. But I am not editing my reply, lol. :hi:
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:12 PM
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10. No problem!
Heck - as I typed it I realized that I had never verified that little "factoid" - so it might just be local urban legend :D :hi:
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:08 PM
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6. Longs Peak 14,259 ft
lowest: sea level
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necso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:11 PM
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8. Badwater, -282ft; Mt Whitney, 14,505ft /nt
Edited on Tue Apr-24-07 10:05 PM by necso
I may be wrong about that.

I may have been higher on Nevado de Toluca (with the ex-step-fatherinlaw, with whom I shared basically no language; the ex had her reasons for not teaching me).

This is part, however, of a collection of memories that generally I'm, um... deemphasizing.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 10:20 PM
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50. Both in Inyo County, California
/nerd
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-27-07 01:00 AM
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51. Mine, too... (nt)
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:11 PM
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9. high - somewhere in Rocky Mountain National Park
and I also discovered I am sensitive to high altitudes...

Lowest...New Orleans... I was below sea level there ...
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:15 PM
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11. Both in or near cities, believe it or not
Edited on Tue Apr-24-07 09:16 PM by KamaAina
Highest: the old Denver airport, approx. 5,280 ft.

Lowest: somewhere in New Orleans, -5 to -10 ft. (exact elevations are difficult to measure there).

edit: note that all of New Orleans is NOT below sea level. The lowest would probably have been the UU church in the Lakeview neighborhood.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:18 PM
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12. Highest: 14,410 feet


Lowest: Death Valley
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:22 PM
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13. Highest: The bottom of the Mt. Charleston Ski Resort, I think....
Lowest, Death Valley, CA.
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 12:15 AM
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14. Highest, maybe Daggett Pass 7334'
Lowest, maybe by the Salton Sea, below sea level.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 04:14 AM
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16. Highest: Pikes Peak 14110, Lowest: Sea level many times
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 04:23 AM
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17. That I can confirm: Mount Washington, 6,288 feet
In a very small Subaru

Lowest: Sea level

However, I've done the driving tour of Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and I might have gone above that without remembering it. The Black Hills go as high as 7,200 feet or so, so the possibility cannot be excluded.
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 04:26 AM
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18. High: Around 11k Rocky Mtn Pk. Low: New Orleans
New Orleans must be below sea level, right?

:wtf:
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 06:16 AM
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19. here goes
Highest: Canadian Rockies at the AB/BC border-13,650 ft

Lowest: Sea Level (I don't know how far New Orleans is below sea level so I couldn't tell you)
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 06:34 AM
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20. Lowest - New Orleans - 6 feet below Sea Level
Highest - Summit of Mount Evans, Colorado - 14,264 feet
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 06:51 AM
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21. Mt Rainier 14,410 Badwater Death Valley -282
Edited on Wed Apr-25-07 06:54 AM by seemunkee
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 07:54 AM
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32. Fellow Rainier climber!
What route did you climb?

I climbed it three times. Once via Camp Muir and once via Camp Hazard below the Kautz ice cliff. And once where we turned back due to weather.
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 09:49 AM
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37. Emmons Glacier route
I have a friend that used to be pretty active with The Mountaineers. He had attempted Rainier several times and got turned back from weather, other peoples altitude problems, and once got sick himself. It was pretty nice that we did it together, we've been hiking and climbing together for 35 years.
Some photos from our trip
http://www.freewebs.com/seemunkee/Ranier/index.html
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 08:04 PM
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49. Very nice
I was involved with the Mountaineers about twenty years ago so that's when I did most of my climbing. These days I mostly like to canoe camp.
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Rhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 08:36 AM
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22. Highest: Passing through Denver CO... Lowest: Sea Level, both costs
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Beausoleil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 08:51 AM
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23. Somewhere in Yellowstone NP - 9000+, New Orleans - -5
n/t
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 08:55 AM
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24. deleted - dupe
Edited on Wed Apr-25-07 09:06 AM by new_beawr
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 02:02 PM
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25. highest Bogota Colombia 8,661.4 FT
Edited on Wed Apr-25-07 02:05 PM by maddezmom
lowest Lima Peru 0 - 5,079 FT

:D
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 02:35 PM
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26. New Orleans (below sea level) and Denver (or is Boulder higher? I was there too)
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-27-07 06:26 AM
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53. is Boulder higher? Depends on what you're smokin'
:evilgrin: :smoke: No Boulder is a bit higher than Denver. Boulder is about 5400 feet Denver 5280
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MikeH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 04:06 PM
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27. My lowest/highest land altitudes
Edited on Wed Apr-25-07 04:07 PM by MikeH
Lowest: Badwater, Death Valley, California, 282 feet below sea level

Highest: I am not absolutely certain; one possibility is Monarch Crest in Colorado, 11312 feet
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Mendocino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 04:27 PM
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28. Highest-about 13550 Hague Peak Rocky Mountain NP 1974
Lowest- sea level most recently 2005
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 05:20 PM
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29. Highest: Mt. Evans - 14,264. Lowest: Sea level, both coasts. eom
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mwdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 07:30 PM
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30. Me, too.
Been to all.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 07:32 PM
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31. From just under 40,000 feet down to maybe a few feet below sea level.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 07:59 AM
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34. Your highest land altitude is just under 40K?
I tip my hat to you, sir.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 08:57 AM
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36. Only with the help of LSD.
:P

I missed the word "Land" in the OP.

:blush:
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 07:58 AM
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33. Flagstaff, AZ at 10K ft.; sea level
except for flying
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 08:25 AM
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35. Mt. Princeton in CO-14000+ feet
I don't know what the lowest point I've been in has been-my guess is somewhere in coastal Florida.

But I did climb Mt. Princeton when I was 16 and at Young Life camp. It took me all day and I got sun poisoning doing it, but I did it.
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Jokerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 09:56 AM
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38. Pike's Peak & Death Valley. n/t
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 01:20 PM
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40. Highest: Mt. Whitney at 14,505. Lowest: San Joaquin River Delta, 15 ft. below sea level.
There are several islands in the delta that have sunk well below sea level, but which are still dry because of the massive levies surrounding them.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 01:24 PM
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41. Highest: Pikes Peak. Lowest: Death Valley n/t
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windlight Donating Member (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 03:13 PM
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42. all over
but the highest: Mount Lincoln, CO 14,286 (also Mount Cameron (14,238), Mount Bross (14,172) same day and Mount Democrat (14,148) the day before) on a fun weekend.

Lowest: I believe we drove though death valley.... years and years ago...
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LeftPeopleFinishFirst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 03:15 PM
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43. Highest: The store, Lowest: ZombyWoof insulting a small child
:evilgrin:
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 04:41 PM
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46. BWHAHAHAHA!!!!
You really know how to make an occasional appearance worthwhile! :loveya:
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LeftPeopleFinishFirst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 04:44 PM
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47. I try!
:D
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 03:16 PM
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44. Alaska...
Edited on Thu Apr-26-07 03:18 PM by Blue_In_AK
Lowest - sea level; highest - 20,320 feet, Denali (otherwise known as Mt. McKinley).

We win.

P.S. I haven't been to the top of Denali, though. I guess the highest I've actually been is Pike's Peak like everyone else here. :)
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 03:24 PM
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45. My reaches
Highest: Thorung Pass, Nepal - 4500 meters (around 18,000 feet; I'm not sure which figure is closest to correct)
Lowest: Dead Sea, Israel - 300 meters below sea level.
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cwydro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 04:55 PM
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48. Highest would be the Zugspitze in Germany
which is about 3000 meters I think. Don't know what that is in feet.

The lowest is where I live. At sea level in the Florida Keys.B-)
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-27-07 06:23 AM
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52. mine?
Mt Evans CO - 14,264 feet

New Orleans - 6' 5"
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