by Nitpicker » Sun Jan 26, 2014 8:35 pm
I've never lived at an elevation quite as high as 9000 feet, but I've camped a few times, for a few days at a time, at 10-11 thousand feet (in the Rockies in Summer -- I lived in Colorado for a few years at the turn of the century). The air is very thin up there and without enough time to get used to it, you get exhausted very quickly. Even cars are noticeably less powerful at that altitude. Another factor I noticed was that at 9000 feet, say, water boils at about 90°C or 195°F. Impossible to get a nice hot cup of tea of coffee (egad).
I've never lived at an elevation quite as high as 9000 feet, but I've camped a few times, for a few days at a time, at 10-11 thousand feet (in the Rockies in Summer -- I lived in Colorado for a few years at the turn of the century). The air is very thin up there and without enough time to get used to it, you get exhausted very quickly. Even cars are noticeably less powerful at that altitude. Another factor I noticed was that at 9000 feet, say, water boils at about 90[char]deg[/char]C or 195[char]deg[/char]F. Impossible to get a nice hot cup of tea of coffee (egad).