How high have you walked/climbed?

[Superfly]

Poll question: How high have you walked/climbed?

Under your own power (no "This Car Has Climbed Pikes Peak" stickers here, thank you), what is the highest point you've attained.

All altitudes are MSL

(Yes, these polls are stupid, but I am bored to tears at work)

[GOPisEvil]

1. 12,441 ft.

Mt. Baldy, Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, NM. 1983.

[Superfly]

2. Been there myself

1987 during the Diamond Jubilee.

[JaySherman]

15. Tooth of Time, 9003 ft.

Philmont, 1994. :hi:

[greendog]

29. Me too

I climbed Baldy in '72 but the highest one I've climbed is "Longs Peak" in Colorado...it's a little over 14,000.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Chimborazo, Ecuador

20,700 ft. And the furthest point from the centre of the earth, due to the equatorial bulge.

[Superfly]

4. That's pretty cool...

NT

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. but I must admit

we were driven up to 15000 feet - still below the snow line on the equator.

[pocoloco]

5. Half a dozen Colo. 14'ers

[Superfly]

7. When the parking lot is at 12,000 feet....

it's not much of a climb, is it? Ha, ha, ha...

Just kidding, some of those peaks are beasts.

[amazona]

6. i'm an idiot and can't recall the numbers

When I was younger, I hiked several of the peaks on the Appalachian Trail -- Mount Mitchell, Mount Washington (I think it's called that? it's in the Northeast), Mount Katahdin, and some others. I don't actually know how high they were but I'm aware the Appalachians are not exactly the rockies or something. I'm thinking of getting into it again, today's equipment is so much better and so much lighter in weight for what it does...but it's also so much more expensive and I've gotten used to walking around in the swamplands so would need to do some serious working out.

I kind of cheated on a peak in the Chirihuacaus (spelling is questionable) in Arizona as we went up by car most of the way and then just hiked the most birdy areas and around the peak. So I wouldn't count that one even if I knew the elevation...the only reason I mention it is from the top we saw a Red-Tail Hawk hovering almost kite-like and then stoop down hard for 1,000 feet. Impressive.

I have hiked DOWN to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon and then hiked back up. Does that count for any extra bonus point?

[HERVEPA]

8. 12, 687 Feet - Tenngboche Monastery, Nepal

[Superfly]

9. How cool was that?

Story?

[HERVEPA]

20. Way Cool

Wait, someone my age shouldn't use that expression!
Went trekking in Nepal about three years ago. Goal was to reach Kala Patar (about 17,000 feet with great view of Everest) and possible Everest Base Camp (which is supposedly a dump (literally).
didn't quite make it, but surprisingly not because of my bad knees. Partially torn Achilles done did me in. Walked 3 days back to airport.
Trekked 19 days total, total climbing being in the area of 40,000 feet or so. Got turned into a Canadian by my guide when we traveled through a town being controlled by the Maoists. Things have gotten somewhat worse in that regard since then, but I would recommend this to anyone.

I'm a once-a-month or so hiker and have never backpacked, so if I can do it, many people could.

The Nepali people are wonderful, and the scenery beautiful.

Tengboche monastery:

[Lisa0825]

10. I don't know how high these are....

I climbed a monolith in the Mexican tow of Bernal, called La Pena
http://lisa_m2.tripod.com/May2003/queretaro5.html (my trip report)

And the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan
http://www.crystalinks.com/pyrsun_moon.html (not mine, but pics of the Pryamids)

[Radical__Moderate]

11. 6,288 ft to the top of Mt Washington

[BrotherBuzz]

28. Hope it wasn't a windy day!

Located in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, Mt. Washington has the dubious record of being the windiest place on earth. On April 12, 1934 a recorded wind speed of 231 miles per hour was measured at the Mt. Washington Observatory. To this day there has never been a greater wind speed measured anywhere on the planet. Well . . . okay, there are stronger winds in tornados and such, but we're talking winds blowing straight across the mountains.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Come on, am I the only lazy daisy here...?

Let's hear it for the non climbers. :7

[Bronco69]

17. LOL!!

I once stood on a chair to change a light bulb. :-)

[VOX]

21. Sounding off, MrsG. -- 17 flights of stairs is my limit...

After that, the air gets too thin! :hi:

[Robb]

14. I used to work at just over 10K

For some reason, after that year I never felt compelled to do a lot of climbing for fun. :shrug:

[Superfly]

16. I used to live at 5000

and I ran every single day. I was able to attain a 6.5 minute mile pace at that altitude. When I visited my friend in Seattle and went for a jog, I was on fire and dropped my run pace to about 5.5 minutes a mile.

Now that I live at sea level, I am fairly winded even walking at any altitude over 5000 feet.

[tom_paine]

18. Many hikes to the top of many fine peaks

:-)

[radwriter0555]

19. The GREAT WALL OF CHINA!!!!! How high up IS that sucker?

Was just there, hobbling, on my cane, over Thanksgiving.

[rbnyc]

22. I don't know!

I can't find out how tall Bell Rock is in Sedona. I free-climbed to the top in the early 90s. That's probably the heighest I've climbed.

[flama]

23. Probably

Before you were born, we climbed South Mountain in Phoenix. Of course, there were hand-rails and we drove at least a quarter of the way up. (That's why my obstetricians didn't have a stroke.)

Great view of the traffic at night! Too bad you couldn't see it.

Ma

:loveya:

[aQuArius]

24. Summit of Mt. Timpanogos & Bulgaria's 1,000 stairs

My next goal is to run a marathon!

[SOteric]

25. 14,410

Rainier.

[Ernesto]

26. I was pretty high on accid

when I walked into a Led Zepplin concert @ the "Rose Palace" in Pasadena Ca in 1969. The "Carlos Santana Blues Band" did the warm up. It cost me 3 bucks to get in.

[101 Proof]

27. About 7,242 ft above sea level...

the Harney Peak lookout in the Black Hills.

[wickerwoman]

30. I summitted Audibampa in the Peruvian Andes.

Sort of an in-joke. I was visiting with my 13-year old cousin and some friends and we were up in the Cordillera Blanca near the base camp for Huascaran (so about 14,000 feet but we took the bus up there.) My cousin kept bragging about how he'd "summitted" Audibampa the summer before and offered to show us the way. We ended up walking up a glorified hill for about an hour (which granted had a nice view of the valley and the real mountains all around us and we were out of breath from the altitude) and then he turned around and said "We've summitted!" I think it was probably 14,030 ft.