[pct-l] elevation sickness

[calliger at infolane.com (rjc)]

Come on now...you can be a LITTLE more graphic now can't you?
Chundra on the Tundra!

At 06:32 PM 3/21/2005, Sharon & Chuck Chelin wrote:
>Good evening, Steve,
>
>I know how the "whimpering messes" feel, in another context.  In a
>blue-water fishing boat off the Oregon coast I was leaning over the rail
>talking to RALPH while a guy on the other side was happy as he could be
>smoking a cigarette, drinking beer, and eating stale pizza all while
>cranking in the fish.  Science can't seem to explain that either.  I think I
>barfed a baloney sandwich that I ate in the second grade, just before my
>shoelaces came up.
>
>Steel-Eye
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Courtway" <scourtway@bpa-arch.com>
>To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 3:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [pct-l] elevation sickness
>
>
> > It's interesting that science still does not have a definitive answer as
>to
> > why some folks are more suseptible to AMS and the effects of elevation in
> > general.  I routinely climb mt. san gorgonio (11,500 ft.) starting here in
> > San Diego (elev. 0) the same morning with no problem, I've never even got
>a
> > headache.  Other friends though, have been reduced to whimpering messes
>with
> > those types of gains in the past.
> >
> > I'm not sure the 1000 ft. per day rule applies here in California, heh
> > heh.......
> >
> > s.c.
> >
> >
>
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