What is the elevation where you live?

[mvd]

By elevation, I mean feet above or below sea level. Looking up elevation is one of my unique hobbies and I don’t remember a poll like this.

If you don’t know, google and a find my elevation search should tell you.

I come up as 285 feet above sea level.

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[Drum]

1. Bookmarking!

[LeftInTX]

2. I'm at 900 feet, but if I go a few miles to the west I will be at 1,000 plus

Betcha didn't know South Texas was this hilly!

The highest elevation in the county is 2,000 ft. The lowest is 400 feet (not counting river bed etc) is at the SE end of the county.

https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/maps/976q/Bexar-County/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I'm in Santa Fe, NM.

About 7200 feet. I love it. I've long since made all the high altitude adjustments needed for cooking. Oh, and for those of you more recently to high altitude, trust me, the conventional wisdom is wrong. PM me if you need to.

I feel as if I can breathe more easily here, although that's probably entirely in my head.

The thing about living at high altitude is this: Your red blood cells take in less oxygen when at altitude, and so you need to manufacture more red blood cells for that purpose. Not sure how long it takes, but meanwhile you need to drink LOTS of water, rest, and let nature take its course.

I've lived here since 2008, so I am more than acclimated. In 2014 I was at a writers conference in Taos, at 10,000 feet. I could tell the difference between Santa Fe and Taos. Every other person attending lived essentially at sea level, and I kept on telling them they needed to drink lots of water and not expect to do the normal walking or whatever they were used to doing. It was a two week program, and during the weekend I went back one day to Santa Fe to pick up my mail and do laundry. Once I got below 9,000 feet, I suddenly felt a lot better and had more energy. Interesting.

I often tell people that living at high altitude is almost as good as working out. Some years ago, when I lived in Boulder, CO, at 6,000 feet, I went on a family trip to Ireland. One day my two year old son tried to escape me, so of course I chased after him. When I caught him, I was struck by the fact I was not winded, as I would have been in Boulder after a similar chase. Hmmm. More recently, I was in the Washington DC area, helping a relative clear out his house. My sister, who was also there, commented that I did so well, was never tired or anything like that. I'm 73 years old, and will admit to not exercising as much as I should. But living at altitude definitely has its advantages.

[LeftInTX]

6. I wanna go to Mexico City on a vacation..LOL 8,000 ft

I didn't notice anything when we went to Boulder. It was a bit too cold to exert ourselves heavily though.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. If you are already in good shape, and especially if you exercise

regularly, the altitude may not be at all a problem.

When we moved from Phoenix, AZ to Boulder, CO in 1987, I had no problem adjusting. But my husband, who had to keep on returning to Phoenix for his job for the first three months, had a terrible time. He just had a huge problem. I read, sometime later, that altitude adjustment was typically harder for men than for women, although I don't recall any reason being given. But no matter what, going back and forth was not at all fun.

Here's the thing about adjusting to high altitude: At altitude, your red blood cells do not carry as much oxygen as they do lower down. And so you need more red blood cells to get the same oxygen. Ok. Now your body needs to make more red blood cells. Which it can normally do quite well, although it takes a bit of time, typically several days. An important thing here is that you need to drink LOTS of water. In part to stay hydrated, because it's a lot drier at altitude, and also to facilitate manufacturing all those red blood cells.

So my husband's problem was that he'd spend two days at altitude, and would be half-way acclimatized, then go back to Phoenix and his body would go, "Oh, yes, I'm where I belong, I can relax now" and then he'd go back up to altitude. About five or six times. No wonder he was miserable. Once he no longer was going back to Phoenix he adjusted and had no problems living at 6,000 feet.

An aside about cooking. When we were in Boulder I made all the necessary altitude adjustments for cooking. Then we moved to Kansas and I went back to normal cooking. In 2008 I moved to Santa Fe, which is a good 1,000 feet higher than Boulder. I re-made the altitude adjustments and a bit more, because that additional thousand feet is noticeable in cooking. Interesting.

[mvd]

18. Interesting! I have always lived in lower areas

At times I have been higher, like with my many trips to State College, PA - their elevation is 1,100-1,200 feet above sea level. I lived in Germantown, MD and Frederick, MD - both a little higher than my current location but not by much. I’d have to really get used to high elevations.

[ItsjustMe]

4. 305 feet

https://elevation.maplogs.com/poi/fresno_ca_usa.10177.html

[PBC_Democrat]

5. WPB Fla

so, maybe 5 ft

[Deuxcents]

7. Me, too.

I was gonna say sea level but really..about 5-7’

[radical noodle]

11. I'm in Florida

Mine was 112 ft.

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. 800 ASL

Google Earth tells you elevation and map coordinates when you place the cursor at any point on the globe.

[secondwind]

9. 8 meters above sea level

[Ohio Joe]

10. 5200

I'm outside Boulder.

[Laffy Kat]

22. Me, too.

Lafayette is 5210' ASL. I think it's perfect.

[frogmarch]

13. Denver, the mile-high city

[electric_blue68]

29. Visited there decades ago. Got to see 💖 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, too!

[PJMcK]

14. Catskills for us

About 1100 feet depending where we are on the side of our mountain next to the Delaware River.

I’ve been curious since first coming here because the weather can be dramatically different than that just a half hour’s drive away.

[livetohike]

15. 1640 feet. North Central PA. n/t

[Harker]

16. 2260 ft. in Worcester, N Y.

I spent fifty years over 5000 ft.

[panader0]

17. 4650 ft. here in SE Az.

Nearby Miller Peak is the highest and southernmost peak in the US at 9470 ft.

[mike_c]

28. the highest peak in the continental US is Mt. Whitney at 14,505 ft

The highest peak in the US is Mt. Denali in Alaska, 20,310 ft.

I believe the southernmost mountain in the US is Emory Peak in the Chisos range, in southern Texas.

[panader0]

34. Highest and southernmost is Miller Peak.

Emory Peak is 7825.

[RFCalifornia]

19. No one here from Death Valley I guess

[electric_blue68]

30. 😄

[hunter]

20. About 250,000 miles.

When we're not running around naked we wear silver suits and purple wigs.

Protecting earth from hostile aliens is 99% goofing around and 1% terror.

These days robots do most of the actual work, cleaning the crud out of the life support systems, digging tunnels, etc..

Sometimes I see the robots watching me like cats do, and I wonder if they are plotting against us...

[csziggy]

21. The highest point of the ridge on our farm is at 209 feet above sea level

About the same as the elevation of the hill the Florida State Capitol Building is on (not counting the building itself).

Our house is just over the crest of the ridge, about 200 feet above sea level. If the seas rise as much as predicted in a century or so, this ridge will be an offshore island!

[Marthe48]

23. I live inland, in the Mid-Ohio River Valley

I am a little concerned about what climate change is going to do to inland river volume and depth. People say my house is located far enough and high enough from the river, but who knows for sure? I have seen the river from my house when is it flooding.

[Elessar Zappa]

24. 6,000 feet.

Southwest New Mexico.

[electric_blue68]

25. I live in a "higher" section of the Bronx...

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I tried getting a topographical map on line but got none with actual elevation numbers. Sheesh!

One listing around 49 ft. Maaaaybe. I thought it was closer to 100+ ft but it may be an illusion looking at the edges of Manhattan, and The Bronx's waters edge.

I just thought of a way to possibly figure it out! 🤔
Decades back they built some tall apts at The Bronx's water's edge near where I live. I can look at them and see where the apt height is level near the section where I'm.

When I lived in Manhattan - we were about 1 1/2 blocks away, and about 10-15 ft lower or so from the highest natural elevation at a "whopping" 265.05 feet! 😁

[electric_blue68]

26. Adjusting to higher altitudes. On 2 across the USA trips..

by mostly bus, a few car, van tours, I went from about 245ish ft from my higher Manhattan nabe to Flagstaff, AZ in about ? 2 1/2+ days by bus at 6,909 ft, Grand Canyon Southern Rim at 7,000 ft. I was 26, then 27 for trip #2.
(up until then the highest I'd ever been were short
visits to The Catskills 3,000+ to the Adirondacks 4300+ )

I lugged my bags, walked all around with out any trouble. Maybe the slow increase in altitude helped. 👍

The next summer got to Alburquerque, NM 5,313 ft. then went north to Rapid City, Sourh Dakota 3,203 ft.
Touring the Black Hills at 7,242 ft.

Then when I came down from from SD to Denver 5,280 ft my cousin who was at Uni there took me up (by motorcycle! (!!!!)! to
Echo Lake in The Rockies(!) (north east of Mt Evans) at 10,600 ft!

Decades later at 64 I went to Baulmes, Switzerland for 3 wks (and a 4 day trip to Paris around end of the 2nd third) at 2,103 ft.
It's part way up at the Eastern edge of the Jura mountain range in Western Switzerland, French speaking section. On clear days we could see the Alps not super easily bc they were bathed atmospheric blue. My aunt took a fabulously clear photo of them with a telephoto lens in the winter in the earlier part of the day, the sun lighting them dramatically!

We went further up part way the mountains behind the village to get to some other places lower down.
Also into the valley below to another town about 3 miles east.

Again, blessed to be free of any altitude problems. 💖👍
🤔 Perhaps the fact that I live in a fairly hilly neighborhood, and often (way less in the pandemic to the highest point) am walking up & down may have kept my exercise level up enough to not have problems in Switzerland. 👍

While a few concerns, upsets happened during these three trips (plus one to San Juan, Puerto Rico) I mostly had fascinating, glorious, fun, funny, wonderful, and *wonderous* times! 💖💖💖💖

Some of my best experiences! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[mike_c]

27. 131 ft n/t

[beaglelover]

31. North Hollywood CA - 692 feet above sea level - I had no idea it was that high!

[Angleae]

32. Just shy of 800 ft, but if I go about 2 miles west I'll be in Puget Sound.

[BluesRunTheGame]

33. I've lived as high as 9,449. These days, I'm down to 632.