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 #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index of Paddling websites I manage] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 02 1999 - 16:38:07 PDT
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