Re: [Paddlewise] Mono Lake

From: Mark Zen <canoeist_at_netbox.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 17:40:29 +0000
At 15:25 9/2/99 -0700,  "M. Wagenbach" <wagen_at_u.washington.edu> wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mel Lammers wrote:
>> I am not going on memory any more but above 12,000 exercise gets
>> pretty hard I think.
>> 
>Around 12,000 feet I often get a tiny snippet of some awful,
>long-forgotten pop song stuck in my head repeating over and over and over.
>Maddening, and presumably a sign of a threshold in mental functioning.
>
>In civil aviation, you're allowed to fly 30 minutes without O2 between
>10K and 12.5K feet.
>
>Mike

barely enough time to get over many of our passes ;-) medical studies have
also said at about 10K ft, people develope additional capilarries [sp] in
their lungs. i know some anthropologists that work in peru frequently, so
they chose to live above 10.5K here in colo... brrrrr

mark

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