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Elevation

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 01:25:31 No.1295997 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1295999 >>1296001 >>1296041 >>1296170 >>1296467

Let's talk elevation.

I used to think a hike with an elevation of 1000ft was tough cookies. After some training I can do up to 2000ft, but it's still rough going. At what elevation do your 'fit' hikers consider a hard day? 3000ft? 4000ft? Right now 2000ft is pretty brutal to me, I'm wiped out afterwards.

Is there some kind of baseline elevation people use to determine difficulty?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 01:30:24 No.1295999 Report

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>>1295997
Do you mean elevation GAIN?

Because just walking around at a certain elevation doesn't mean shit. I'm definitely not in good hiking shape and I could walk around Yosemite Valley (4000' elevation) for hours without feeling strained.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 01:31:05 No.1296001 Report

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>>1295997
Worked a job at 8k feet for awhile. Took a few days to really be up to normal pace, and the whole time a swift jog uphill would wind me a little. Just outside Jackson Hole, wy

We had to take the horses up over several days in stages, cuz they can die from altitude sickness

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 02:28:20 No.1296032 Report

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I have found that it really depends on the "delivery" of the elevation. I did a 4 mile hike with an elevation of 1200 ft that absolutely kicked my ass (all of the elevation was within the first 1.5 miles) but a few weeks later did an 8 mile hike with an elevation of 3000 ft that wasn't that bad.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 02:43:25 No.1296041 Report

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>>1295997
I live at an elevation of 10,500 feet.
I hurt every time I come back from vacation, it takes me about a week to adjust after a week on the beach.

My elevation regularly kills a small number of locals and visitors every year. As far as exercising at this elevation goes, it's not really a great idea until you've acclimatized, which takes most people a couple weeks. It hurts coming here. It will make you feel pretty sick. If you're in great shape you should be able to power through it, but if you're in anything less than perfect health, rigorous exercise here can kill you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 02:52:56 No.1296048 Report

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>>1296041
lol. i live at sea level and go straight to mountain climbing and backpacking at 9-13k with no acclimation several times every year. stop talking about highly variable traits like elevation tolerance like everyone's the same as you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 02:58:17 No.1296053 Report

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>>1296048

You're acclimatized 24/7 because your head is so far up your ass it's like living at 20k feet constantly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:01:26 No.1296057 Report

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>>1296053
first of all, 10k isnt shit. second of all, this thread isn't even about hiking at elevation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:02:09 No.1296060 Report

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>>1296053
Kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:02:49 No.1296062 Report

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>>1296057

>hike with an elevation of...

Euthanasia is always an option. Consider it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:04:05 No.1296063 Report

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>>1296053
>colorado fatty drive his big ol' pickup everywhere then gets his feelings hurt when called on getting winded walking into starbucks

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:08:40 No.1296066 Report

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>>1296063
that response wasn't the coloradofag

I don't get offended by anything on 4chan.
the anon is right, tolerance varies. More importantly it's completely random. He may be fine the first 100 times he comes up here and then drop dead on the 101st for no obvious reason, because that's how it works.

even locals that have lived here all their lives occassionally die from altitude problems.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:10:41 No.1296071 Report

Quoted By: >>1296075 >>1296082

For elevation gain the most I've done on foot was 7k feet in a day (in a 50k ultra).
For bicycle I've done over 10k feet many times including the Leadville 100 (12.6k gain) which also starts at an elevation of 10k feet and gets near 13k feet.

Seems like there's a lot of people that don't understand OP was very clearly talking about gain and not going for a walk in Denver.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:11:47 No.1296072 Report

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it depends on the rate of gain, as other posters have noted 4 miles with 1400 ft is a bit of a bummer but 6 or 7 miles it isn't too bad. Past a certain point difficult hikes become more about navigation and trail conditions rather than elevation gain. I run 3 miles every day and lift weights and it's pretty rare for a trail to absolutely destroy me unless the conditions are complete shit.

that said, again, it all has to do with how elevation manifests itself. If you're doing up/down/up/down, it's gonna be more difficult than a simple up or down.

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:15:17 No.1296075 Report

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>>1296071
And this is the fastest/steepest I've done, 6800ft of gain in 5.5mi of travel in 3:30. I'm pretty big so definitely not a great climber, wish I could be more of a mountain goat like Krupicka or Jornet but I'm never going to be built like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:18:46 No.1296077 Report

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>>1296075
yeah, that amount of gain over 5.5 miles sounds fucking nuts. how tough was it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:20:30 No.1296079 Report

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>>1296075
>that pace

dude what the fuck are you? a 22 minute mile while hiking 800 ft?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:26:20 No.1296082 Report

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>>1296071
>OP was very clearly talking about gain and not going for a walk in Denver.
Leadvilleanon here. I figured the actual elevation matters also. You know that as well as I do. We have 1/3 less oxygen here, and that figures some in the difficulty of the exercise.

I regularly hike/run parts of the trail 100 course, I doubt most people from sea level could keep up with me even if they run marathons on a regular basis. I'll beat them and smoke a pack of cigarettes while doing it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 03:30:14 No.1296086 Report

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>>1296077
It was fun, you can see the steepest part was 1800ft over 1mi which I think is over a 40% grade, that was rough because it was all scree, so I would take a huge step and just sink and slide a lot of the way back, can't really go that efficiently. It would have been much easier on ice or snow I think (this was Mt Shasta Clear Creek 4 years ago when it was completely clear of snow). The biggest issue I had was I drove up from sea level the night before and gaining elevation that fast caused my hands and feet to swell like crazy, my fingers were more than 2x as big as normal.

>>1296079
I'm not very fast compared to a lot of people that do ultra/mountain stuff, Ricky Gates and a few others climbed Shasta in under 2 hours. Anyone could probably get to the shape I was in then by training for a year.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 05:14:17 No.1296126 Report

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>>1296041
>truck on top of an alpine zone
absolutely disgusting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 05:16:13 No.1296128 Report

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>>1296062
OP meant to say elevation gain you fat fucking retard

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 07:27:16 No.1296170 Report

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>>1295997
most I did was 2400m / 7874 ft in one day up and 1500m back down. quite hard and I assume I could not do it for more than 2 days in a row. this was with a maybe 10kg pack, in the summer alps between 700m and 3000m on the summit. with 600m on the glacier and climbing.

with camping gear, I can do at best half of that.

acclimatisation was so far not a problem. but I was only bicycling in Nepal and Ecuador. at that was maybe around 4500m max and 3000 or less on average.

id say every 500m are 30% harder than the 500m before

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 10:46:29 No.1296206 Report

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>>1296126
That's the road up Mt. Antero. It sees hundreds of trucks a day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 19:22:18 No.1296444 Report

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>>1296170
Where was this pic taken

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jun 2018 19:49:07 No.1296467 Report

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>>1295997
Any more than 3000 is pretty hard for me

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