What is the Highest you have ever been?

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12-20-2006, 06:36 PM
hop

I skied from the top of Mt. Apharwat in Kashmir at night under a full moon in Feb 04. That's probably the highest I've ever been ever at slightly over 14,000 feet. Runner-up was probably some barely sub 14er in CO in 1995.

Otherwise, it was December 3rd 2003 in Sayulita Mexico after downing about half a bottle of Radness then making a bong out of the bottle and "testing" it, then once the munchies set in, eating about 1/4 of a batch of brownies made with 1/2 a breadbag worth of pot.

I was pretty much non-functional for 18 hours and haven't touched the yerbage since.

Runner-up was 4/20/94 Pink Floyd Oakland Coliseum.
12-20-2006, 06:47 PM
The Kids Are Alright

tucker mt. listed at 12,3
12-20-2006, 06:51 PM
Bullet

Skiing = 14,497'
Hiking = 14,497'
12-20-2006, 06:54 PM
huckasoreass

19,540' skiing a ridge across from Kangchenjunga in Nepal.
12-20-2006, 07:00 PM
Camel Toad

around 22,000'
12-20-2006, 07:02 PM
leroy jenkins

On foot, top of Elbert, whatever that is, 14something.

On skis, I'd say probably about 13, at least 12,500

Don't know if this counts, but I've been in a small plane at 18,000. It wasn't presurized, and I wasn't using O2, so I was breathing 18,000 foot air, just was inside a plane.

My dad has a 50 year old plane that is capable of flying at 50,000, I really want to take it that high someday. I just think it'd be cool to tell the 737s to watch out for you as you climb past them in a single engine prop plane.
12-20-2006, 07:06 PM
tele.savalas

the highest

i have summited pico de orizaba 18,570. i have skied from 13,900 on wilson peak near telluride. tried to ski from pico's summit, but was shut down by huge penitentes.
12-20-2006, 07:09 PM
iceman

Quote:

Originally Posted by leroy jenkins

My dad has a 50 year old plane that is capable of flying at 50,000, I really want to take it that high someday. I just think it'd be cool to tell the 737s to watch out for you as you climb past them in a single engine prop plane.

50,000 feet in a prop plane? Sounds pretty dubious, sorry. Got any links?
12-20-2006, 07:24 PM
Free Range Lobster

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

50,000 feet in a prop plane? Sounds pretty dubious, sorry. Got any links?

A Supermarine Spitfire did it once, then promptly fell out of the sky. (Pilot recovered it at 3,000 feet. Lucky sumbitch.)
12-20-2006, 07:59 PM
ICEHOCEY77

Mt. Evans 14K
12-20-2006, 08:23 PM
Dug

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Originally Posted by mattitude

On Foot 17,769 ft (Thorung La pass - Annapurna Circuit, Nepal)

Hey, I've been there too! That's my highest.
On skis? I dunno.
12-20-2006, 09:51 PM
leroy jenkins

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

50,000 feet in a prop plane? Sounds pretty dubious, sorry. Got any links?

Likwid got the plane right. A Mk IX to be exact. Its real service ceiliing is actually like 48,000, which can be done safely, and has been done more than a few times I think. I figured I'd round up. Same difference right?.
12-20-2006, 09:56 PM
Alpine Dreams

Cerro El Plomo 18 and some change.
12-20-2006, 10:25 PM
Free Range Lobster

Quote:

Originally Posted by leroy jenkins

Likwid got the plane right. A Mk IX to be exact. Its real service ceiliing is actually like 48,000, which can be done safely, and has been done more than a few times I think. I figured I'd round up. Same difference right?.

43,400 to be exact.

And that 7000 foot difference is a difference between life and death.
12-20-2006, 10:29 PM
grskier

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Originally Posted by mattitude

I was wondering that. I thought my high would be A-Basin and looked at the map. The peak is over 13k but the lift service is alot lower. I am sure others will chime in.

Found these lists but they are not complete and they don't represent lift service.

http://www.slopequest.com/slopes/central/
1. A-Basin 13,050
2. Loveland 13,010

http://www.slopequest.com/slopes/northwest/
1. Big Sky 11,166
2. Mammoth 11,053

http://www.slopequest.com/slopes/southwest/
1. Ski Santa Fee 12,053
2. Taos 11,819

Top of Katchina at Taos is 12,481 or so.....
12-20-2006, 10:35 PM
spook

19,388 cotopaxi, ecuador on foot.

dead at shoreline on 10 hits of liquid a close second.
12-20-2006, 10:36 PM
JTrue

Ate a 3.5 gram mushroom at a Phish Show in Oswego, New York, everyone's heads looked like big balloons on top of a normal body, it was not right.
12-20-2006, 10:41 PM
AsheanMT

10 hits of blotter and John Lennon's "Shaved Fish".
12-21-2006, 12:34 AM
atomicboy

19,388 cotopaxi, ecuador

Skiing probably someplace in CO
12-21-2006, 12:40 AM
rideit

Mt. Biking, 16,500 feet, Punto olympico Peru (huascaran) Snowboarding, I dunno. Pretty high.

Edit: 30 accidental hits of (real) liquid, dead show, Saratoga Springs, 1985. I was convinced that during the break between drums/space, the band sacrificed a human every show, and at this show, i was the one. freaky.
12-21-2006, 12:43 AM
fluffballs

11,500, or whatever the taller of the American Fork Twins comes in at. Right before skiing pipeline, my avatar.
12-21-2006, 01:51 AM
backpack

Quote:

Originally Posted by spook

19,388 cotopaxi, ecuador on foot.

dead at shoreline on 10 hits of liquid a close second.

Quote:

Originally Posted by atomicboy

19,388 cotopaxi, ecuador

Skiing probably someplace in CO

Heh, me too, but I thought it was 19,347... whatever.

I've had my eye on Chimborazo for a while now. Maybe next year.
12-21-2006, 01:59 AM
workinforturns

i was so i high one time that i tripped, fell, got up, and thought i had traveled through time.
12-21-2006, 02:05 AM
ak_powder_monkey

the top of the palisades so 9000ish?

page top bitches
12-21-2006, 02:10 AM
Spats

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bullet

Hiking = 14,497'

Same here. (That's the top of Mt. Whitney, btw.)

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