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montanajoe
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how high have you been?
630 feet. The Gateway Arch, St. Louis.
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12,000 feet. Fire lookout at Trinity Fire lookout.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
how high off the ground?? 40 foot tower at high elevation doesn't count.
I'm high on life!
14,439 ft. Summit of Mt Elbert.
Off the ground: 1815 ft. CN Tower in Toronto. Glass floor. Almost peed.
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
Shooting pds on the Texas High Plains at about 5000ft.
And in the old days......elk and mule deer hunting in the Uncompahgre National Forest. Had a tough time getting off a "hill" one evening. 🥵🥵
Edit: Also........altitude headaches are murder!!😖
I plead the 5th
when younger the songs higher and higher comes to mind along with go ask Alice
not proud of it just part of my early life
6684 ft above sea level , the top of Mt Mitchell.
some pretty tall skyscrapers that I have no idea the height. Mackinaw bridge, but that is only about 200 ft above the strait. Camping, I spent a week north of Tensleep in the bighorns at around 9500 ft. That hunting trip proved this flatlanders lungs hate mountains. Bob
Been up this…tad bit creepy when the wind is blowing.
The Burj Khalifa , known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration in 2010, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is known for being the world's tallest building. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, or just over half a mile) and a roof height (excluding antenna, but including a 242.6 m spire ) of 828 m (2,717 ft).
11,400 ft on elk hunt in Colorado. (Closest landmark Sargent's Mesa)
Well when you look over the side of the vertical cliff from the lookout it takes my breath away. Your mileage may very.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
2000 feet, maybe, in a Hughes 500. I really don't remember. About as high as I cared to go, but it was still pretty cool. Parked nearby was an AH-1 Cobra, but of course they weren't giving rides in that, try as I did. Just there for display. The 500 was neat enough, but every time I walked past the Cobra, my pants got shorter.
I worked construction when younger I was scared of heights to the point I would just freeze up like my feet were nailed down trust me not a good thing to have a fear of when working construction honest some days you could not have driven a toothpick in butt with a sledge hammer I would be so tense .
I managed to get thru it for 13 years some how , I still do not like heights but 20 feet or so I am ok with
the iron workers really gave me a hard time over it on high jobs buildings I would butt slide over the i beams ( red iron frames ) they did there best to help me over come the fear but no way no how
I told them I was short for a reason I was meant to be close to the ground 😁
Observation deck of the Sears Tower.
Google says it is 1,350 feet.
Brad Steele
Amen brother. If my feet are over six feet off the ground I am nervous. I can't approach railings that look down into a foyer, it gives me the creeps. A stair well ceiling makes me shiver, I have to look down at the stairs, not straight across. While seeing commercials where people are on rock cliffs I freak out. I have always had a fear of heights but since my neck surgery it has become real bad.
About 100' up a big ol' Douglas Fir way back when I worked for the Forest Circus. We were climbing the trees to collect cones from the best trees. We'd use spurs and a lanyard 'till we got up into the branches and then free climb to the cones and rappel back down.
9500 ft, Tetons
There's a popular hiking/camping trail in Utah's Uintah mountains where you park the car at 10,000 feet and the trail climbs from there. Five miles in, the series of lakes is at 12,000+. You had better be acclimated before you even think about it. I've done it several times, both solo and with my younger daughter. Never again at my age, of course.
In a plane, I've been to 50,000.
I've been skydiving, was a pilot, and I absolutely cannot stand on the edge of a cliff, building, or tall ladder. Weird, huh?
The top of the Sears Tower in Chicago. I don't know how high it is but it's up there.
Joe
I have been in a AH-1 Cobra. In fact is was one of the very first ones produced, and before It turned over to the military. However it was about 80 feet underwater in the Pacific Ocean at the time. It also had a dead pilot in the seat that my dive buddy and I were there to bring back to his family.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Beartooth Pass, Mount Mitchell, Grandfather Mtn.
I assume Miller High Life doesn't count so I say 8K feet in RMNP. Tent camped there a dozen times or so but as the years went by the elevation got to me. Tent campers need to walk up from the roads since trailer campers are parked there.
The top of a 125' water tank that is on a 1000' hill (mountain.) Took a few minutes before I could walk out to the railing.
It's said that soldiers of the Continental Army climbed trees there so they could count the masts of English ships in New York harbor 26 miles away.
I spent a summer in Ft Collins Colorada when I was in college. We headed out to Estes Park most weekends to hike and climb on some of the peaks in the area. We got to top of one near 14K..
This is the top of Flat Top Mountain 12,361 feet. That was a great summer. I spent the week working in a child care center getting credits child psychology and child development, while taking part in a summer project with Campus Crusade for Christ. Work and study all week, hike and climb on the weekends....
The carefree days of youth !!
No comments about the shorts, that was stylish in the 70's
William81, I camped at the park so often that I got to know local folks. After I couldn't easily camp anymore I stayed with a friend for years after. All in all, this was part of my annual Sturgis trip. I made it 24 times but doubt if I'm up to it anymore.
It certainly is a beautiful area. I always intended to get out there again. 44 years later, I still have not made it back !
My house is at 5200 feet. I try hard not to get more than 5 feet above that. I don't like hights or edges.
I rode my bicycle over Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. At 12,183 feet the oxygen is a little thin.
50k in a g5
13k on a snowmobile
Mt. Mitchell for me too.
I know that spot well. The locals refer to it as "The Short-shorts Memorial Overlook". 😁
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
Is that where bicycles get splatted by cars?
Had a couple of missions to La Paz, Bolivia. The airport is 12,000 + ft and the city is about 1.000 ft lower. We carried portable oxygen bottles to the hotel. I had to use it once.