From: marty@wavemark.com
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 11:16:13 CST
In my experience, last summer, it's less of an issue than you might
think. I'm 43, 5'5", and 20 pounds overweight (but still inside the
Philmont limit), and that's how I went on the trek. I live at about
100' altitude, and the BS troop backpacks in New Hampshire, between
1000' and 6000' feet up. Our Philmont trek was a short trek, and our
highest spots were at Sawmill, the Tooth of Time, and Lamberts Mine,
9000' to 10000' feet up. There's no way to separate the huffing and
puffing I did because I had a 50 lb pack going uphill, and the huffing
and puffing I did because the air was thin. My guess is that the
altitude is a non-issue until you're on top of Phillips or Baldy, at
or over 11000'.
-- -Marty Galligan WaveMark Solutions, Motorola, Burlington, MA martin.galligan@motorola.com 1-781-852-2785 | Reply-To: philmont@troop47.com | From: "Allen Corzine"<a_sly_fox@msn.com> | Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:55:30 -0600 | | >He came off the trail on day three complaining of altitude sickness. | | I have wondered about this. I live in Topeka now - and the Midwest - | Illinois and Iowa - all my life - how does one living at 900 feet above sea | level prepare for altitude? You can do all the hiking and planning you want | but, as I have been told, there is a certain percentage of us who will | develop this problem despite whatever you do. | | I am aware of the advise of going out to altitude a day or two before to get | use to it. However, I can see that as working for most of us who go | sightseeing but does it work for those working hard on a trek? | | What suggestions do you folks have for us low landers? | | Allen Corzine | Cub Master, Pack 59 Topeka | PTC 2002 | | just a sly fox, and remember, my opinion and $ will buy coffee at the | trading post ------------------------------------------------------- Scouting E-mail Discussion Lists @ usscouts.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe at http://usscouts.org/lists/ Listserv Commands at http://usscouts.org/lists/lc.asp ------------------------------------------------------- Send listserv commands to: listserv@troop47.com Send postings to: philmont@troop47.com List FAQ found at: http://usscouts.org/lists/faq.asp List Administrator: philmont_owner@troop47.com ------------------------------------------------------- As you gather around this virtual campfire with fellow Scouts and Scouters, do your best to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. -------------------------------------------------------
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