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john hansen

climber
Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 2, 2008 - 07:03pm PT
Besides that Grateful Dead concert in the seventies,,,

What is your personal best. I know a few here have been on Everest, any make it to the top? Seen a lot of names from this place in the AAJ. Pumori, Rainier, Whitney, Kilimanjaro? Does not have to be a summit.

I would think that probably most folks here have never been over 14,000 ft. Please prove me wrong.

My personal best, 13,840,,,and I drove my truck up there.

Whimpy..
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
Mar 2, 2008 - 07:05pm PT
Iron Maidden concert, circa 1988, passed out cold...my brother caught me and threw me in my seat.

Somebody passed me some laced bud,
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
Idaho
Mar 2, 2008 - 07:08pm PT
Whitney is (supposed to be) 14,505.
marky

climber
Mar 2, 2008 - 07:09pm PT
14,500+

par for the course
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
Idaho
Mar 2, 2008 - 07:11pm PT
pretty high right now....
Dragon with Matches

climber
Bamboo Grove
Mar 2, 2008 - 07:31pm PT

Twenty-two eight... Roughly equivalent in effort to a mellow marathon after a 10-day backpacking trip. Far less daring than, say, Northwest Books with a cord.

Altitude for its own sake is a fitness challenge. There can be moments of beauty, but I'd not expect many on the Seven Summits nowadays.

Ouch!

climber
Mar 2, 2008 - 07:40pm PT
40,000 feet, according to the DC-10 pilot.
WBraun

climber
Mar 2, 2008 - 07:43pm PT
40,000 feet OUCH? You can't fly that high, there's no oxygen up there.

I read it on the internet .......
Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
Mar 2, 2008 - 07:44pm PT
15,771' once upon a time.

rockermike

Mountain climber
Berkeley
Mar 2, 2008 - 07:53pm PT
21,000 plus change (maps aren't consistent). Sujama, Bolivia, 1979. And I've been to 17,000 a couple of times hiking in Nepal.
JerryGarcia

Trad climber
South Lake Tahoe
Mar 2, 2008 - 08:26pm PT
Mt Conness(12,549ft) or that Pink Floyd concert at the Capitol Center outside D.C in 1987.
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Mar 2, 2008 - 08:36pm PT
14,494' 'cept I hear it's now 14,505! also Russell, Keeler, muir, Langley (ran it) a bunch of those other Sierra 14ers, White mtn (run), Shasta, Ranier, and maybe a dozen of the greenie 14-ers.


Mt Evans(?) With 12 yr old Natalie and Mtn Goats


Longs with Dad in '69


Note white goldline.
ron gomez

Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
Mar 2, 2008 - 08:44pm PT
Used to say at the top of all climbs....there's ALWAYS room to get a little higher, and the smoke would start rising!
Peace
Once thought I was on a higher plane, then realized....I was just like everyone else
john hansen

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2008 - 08:51pm PT
Dragon with Matches ,and ,,Fattrad..tied for first. Aconcagua at 22,853 ft.


Who'd a thunk..

Where's Jello?
Ouch!

climber
Mar 2, 2008 - 09:10pm PT
"40,000 feet OUCH? You can't fly that high, there's no oxygen up there.

I read it on the internet ....... "

I know Werner. Just held my breath till we got to New York.


Jaybro, That is the raunchiest looking goat I ever saw.
Bubba Ho-Tep

climber
Evergreen, CO
Mar 2, 2008 - 09:20pm PT
Denali at 20,320 and boy was it cold....
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
Idaho
Mar 2, 2008 - 09:23pm PT
hmmm
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
Idaho
Mar 2, 2008 - 09:44pm PT
only 12,000 or so, as yet...yeah, I know...so effing what..
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
Idaho
Mar 2, 2008 - 09:56pm PT
Tallest hike in the state...Leatherman Peak is a Real climb, though shorter...lower...whatever.
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Mar 2, 2008 - 10:36pm PT
1992 (?)
Popocatepetl 5426 m (17,802 ft)


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