Highest elevation you've been too?

[funkyflathead]

While still standing on the ground?

For me 6,684 feet at Mt Mitchell, NC.

[Gephard]

1. Key West, FL

After some Columbian Gold.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Mt Katahdin, 5200 feet in Maine

heck of a climb/hike....

[boilerbabe]

63. I am from Mt Katahdin, what a climb!!

That was 3 million cigarettes ago in 1980, now , I go back there and just look at it!!!!

[Cleita]

3. 13,000 feet. LaPaz, Bolivia.

[Dagaz]

4. Estes Park

over 14,000 feet. Climbed in ski boots to a peak at Arapahoe Basin to ski a chute at 10,000 and I was pretty well gassed. Hell of a ride down but the climb was a beotch.

[shamrock]

5. I've been

About 15,000 feet. Crossing the Andes mountains in Peru, S.A. Lots of people get sick at that altitude if they do anything physical.

[ronzo]

6. Jackson Hole, or the trip thereto.

Awesome. MMMMM...Tetons.

[Liberal Veteran]

16. The Tetons....just takes my breath away.

My lover and I decided to just drive through Yellowstone and the Tetons one week and it was glorius. The kind of memories that will last a lifetime. We even stopped and watched Old Faithful do it's thing and then drove south from there to the Tetons.

What a fantastic trip.

[kayleybeth]

7. Pike's Peak

in the Rockies in Colorado. The high altitude caused my car to experience vapor-lock. Had to get a tow back down the mountain.

[Gephard]

8. Highest? Lowest?

HIGHEST

7660' Brown's Peak-Maricopa County, Az. (35 miles NE of downtown Phoenix.)

LOWEST

-1,300' Somewhere beneath the Mediterranean Sea.

[whirlygigspin]

14. Nagarkot, Nepal

*The Restaurant at the end of the Universe*, 7,292 feet.

Nagarkot; Tel: 680122
Kathmandu Office,Tel: 438908; Fax: [phone]

Fine food, nice people.

[amlouden]

17. you too?!

great show at the end of the night there

[La_Serpiente]

9. Highest?

10,000 ft, Haleakala, island of Maui, Hawaii.

[ronzo]

11. Seriously, you're in HI? n/t

[La_Serpiente]

15. I am not joking

I am really

[ronzo]

26. Dammit.

I'm not joking.
I am really.


I wish I lived on a coast with no mosquitos. Which?

[La_Serpiente]

27. OH, sorry

I am not joking, seriously. I really am from Hawaii.

And there are mosquitos here.

[ronzo]

28. Yer kiddin'...

It may be a Louisiana urban myth, but it's said that Hawaii is mosquito free. Wishful thinking... seriously?

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. No, plenty mosquitos in hawaii, bra

though never as bad - as I experienced it - as any woodeed area in the midwest or northeast.

[Snow]

54. Hey, LS - my high point is Mauna Loa - 13,680 - climbed it in two days

back when I was in Peace Corps training, on King Kamehameha day (3 day weekend). We stayed overnight at the Red Rock cabin, 10,000 feet, then the cabin on top - what a view, especially from the outhouse! It's basically a chair on top of the mountain, with a little privacy wall between you and the cabin - but no other walls, no roof.

It took us only a day to walk down. It was muuucchhh easier going down. Watch the last 7/8 of a mile on the walk up - it'll kill you.

[RC]

22. I've been there also.

Some view till the clouds rolled in.

[hlthe2b]

57. Have you skied Haleakala? (or is it Mauna Loa you can ski?)

[lcordero]

10. Colorado Springs 6,035 feet

I take it that it doesn't include riding in an airplane:D

[funkyflathead]

12. On the ground

No airplanes, gliders, copters, ect.

[Mr. Brown of MD]

13. 3097m

It was somewhere in the Swiss Alps.

I can't remember the name of the mountain right now.

-CollegeDude
Had fun on that trip

[Az]

18. 14,000 feet Mt Sneffles CO

Used to do some climbing back in the day.

[jpgray]

31. I just climbed Sneffels last year! It's a fun climb. (nt)

[Robb]

41. Hey! And you didn't visit?

Heck, I could hit Sneffels with a snowball from here!

;)

[alfredo]

19. 13,000 on Estes peak.

got altitude sickness, but still loved it.

[shamrock]

21. I ate and didn't get altitude sickness

While in Peru we had to drive for about an hour at 15,000 feet. Everyone said not to eat anything or we would get sick. I was the only one that ate, and the only one that didn't get sick. We drove from S.W. Oregon to Peru S.A. (11,000 miles) We went through 10 countries and stayed in Peru about 3 months, then flew back.

[Room101]

20. 15,000 ft skydiving

:bounce:

[RebelOne]

35. 12,000 feet skydiving in Homestead, Florida

[pfitz59]

23. 14,000 - Mt Shasta CA

View was astounding. (From what I remeber. Was ill with altitude sickness.)

[argyl]

24. Mt.Whitney,Cal. 14,496 ft.

One serious day hike.23 miles round trip.

[jpgray]

32. I did Pike's in a day hike, but I'm not sure it was 23 miles! (nt)

[proud patriot]

25. 9,000 ft elevation Backpacking in the Sierra's

:hi:

[JackSwift]

29. 13,796 ft. Mauna Kea in Hawaii

You can drive up all but the last couple hundred yards. It is on top of a mountain that counting below sea level and above is over 33,000 ft. making it the tallest mountain in the world by a long measure. It is a shield volcano, so the top is quite broad and it slopes far less steeply to the sea than the elevation imagines. The summit is covered with the world's most advanced astronomical observatories as the height and even temperatures of the surrounding seas make it one of the best, if not the best, observatory locations in the world. It is peaceful.

[Booberdawg]

30. All the way to ecstasy!

Oh .... you mean in feet?? :spank:

[Hubert Flottz]

33. Pike's Peak!

Nice to get drunk on two beers up there!

[BiggJawn]

50. My lips turned blue up there...

Guy I was with said the air was so thin that cigarettes wouldn't stay lit...I proved him wrong.
Tried to drive to the top of Mauna Kea, also, and my Jeep suffocated at about 11,000 feet...

[demconfive]

34. .about 16,000 ft

In 1999 me and several friends took a self supporting bicycle trip from the chilean coast up over the Andes into Bolivia. On the first week we crossed over a 16,000 ft pass. We also crossed several 15,000 ft passes. It's really hard to sleep at those altitudes.

[mrbill]

36. mount fuji - 12,365 feet.

sunrise is real impressive from the top. bring a sweater.

others - mount mitchell in north carolina , highest peak east of mississippi (6711 feet). mount manitou (13400 feet-est), next to pikes peak (14126 feet).

mount etna's cool.

[RebelOne]

37. Mountains above Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Also mountains above Loch Ness in Scotland.

[MaineDem]

38. Mount Pilatus - 6,995'

Mount Pilatus outside Luzerne, Switzerland.

We had Mirage jets flying below us. It was way cool!

[MaineDem]

39. I take that back

I didn't realize that when I was in Estes Park, CO that was 7522 feet. Higher than the Alps I visited.

[nuxvomica]

42. Mt. Mitchell was my high point too

Highest elevation east of the Mississippi River. I was there in '87 and saw the devastation of acid rain on the once-majestic trees near it's summit. Is it still such a scorched landscape?

edit: originally said "west" LOL

[grannylib]

43. Probably somewhere in Austria or Switzerland... or Norway??

Not really sure...spent a lot of time during the summer of 1973 in Europe in mountainous regions, so somewhere in there I am guessing.

[XNASA]

44. Mt. Evans, Colorado - 14,148 ft.

But there's a parking lot at 13,700. So it really wasn't much of an accomplishment.

[ProfessorGAC]

45. 1248 Parsecs Above Chicago

When i return to my home planet for a visits to my real family.

Seriously, though, Pikes Peak.
The Professor

[bif]

46. 13,000 ft.

Rocky Mt. National Park. I could barely breathe.

[Snow]

55. You're talking about the Tundra Trail?

Isn't that something? Been there a number of times while we lived in Omaha.....makes an excellent escape.

[bif]

67. Yep

Very cool scenery. Incredible views. But man, is that air thin up there.

[MissMillie]

47. MacDonald Pass

near Helena, MT (6,320 ft.)

[GumboYaYa]

48. 15,700 ft on the summit of Mt. Blanc.

I have also climbed Middle Teton and several 14,000 plus peaks in Colorado. The hardest climb for me so far was Devil's Courthouse outside of Asheville, NC. It is at a much lower altitude, but technically very difficult.

[greendog]

49. 14,256

Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. Twice!

[elifino]

51. Mt. Fuji 3,500m

Worked in Japan for two months, 1970.

[GOPisEvil]

52. 12,441 ft

Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, NM. The Who song, "Miles and Miles" kept going through my head. :-)

[Mysterio]

53. only about 6,000 - 7,000 feet above sea level...

in the Black hills of South Dakota and Devil's Tower in Wyoming.

[hlthe2b]

56. There are 54 peaks in Colorado 14000 feet or higher...

I've climbed two (including XNASA's climb of Mt. Evans from the parking lot --LOL), but I've seen them all on a map or from the car, does that count?
:evilgrin:

[Skinner]

58. 14,410 feet

Top of Mt. Rainier.

[4323Lopez]

59. Rocky Mountain National Park

I miss CO soooo much!

[northzax]

60. 20,320 feeet. Denali, baby

on other continents? probably 14737 in Europe (Matterhorn)

[SmileyBoy]

61. Alpine Visitors Center, Rocky Mtn. NP. 13,000-something feet.

At the end of the highest paved road in North America.

[Dogmudgeon]

62. 1500 micrograms

Except I wasn't standing, I was sort of laying down.

--bkl

[boilerbabe]

64. I went on the space ship in place of Lance Bass

He didn't pay his credit card off, so I went as Billy the Singing Bass. They threw me out after the 3rd rendition of "Take me to the river". So then I just landed in like New Jersey, and that was that.

[XNASA]

65. That's true. I was still in the NASA Office of Public Affairs at the time.

And I remember it quite well. Now where did I put that bottle of Oxy?

:crazy:

[BurtWorm]

66. It's probably Mexico City

7,349 feet. I remember drinking a lot of tequila, having a horrible case of hiccups, but not feeling a bit drunk. I don't know whether that was because of the altitude or because it wasn't really tequila.

It's a great city, by the way!