USAFHummer From United States of America, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 54 Posted (12 years 3 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1574 times:
Self-explanatory...flying in planes doesn't count...highest open air elevation...
For me it is a confirmed 11,811 ft. above sea level in southwestern Conejos County, Colorado (confirmed with topo maps), and unconfirmed 12,100 ft. above sea level about two miles from the confirmed location, determined with an altimeter whose accuracy could have been off by at least 400 feet...
What about you...If you dont know, and the place is in the US, I can find out for you...
Greg
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777YYC From Canada, joined May 2000, 744 posts, RR: 8 Reply 2, posted (12 years 3 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1494 times:
About 9500 feet on a pass in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming. Then again I was only 8 at the time. The top of the tramway in Jasper, Alberta might also be about that high.
Prebennorholm From Denmark, joined Mar 2000, 6039 posts, RR: 55 Reply 5, posted (12 years 3 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1485 times:
"Kleines Matterhorn" (Lower Rocky Peak, directly translated), a 3,899m (12,825 ft.) peak right on the border between Switzerland and Italy close to the "real" Matterhorn, the most spectacular peak in the Alps.
It cost a minor fortune to be paid in Swiss Franks to go up there on several very impressive cable cars.
The real Matterhorn I only enjoyed from window seats in Swissair A320s, and it will stay that way for sure!!!
best regards, Preben Norholm
Always keep your number of landings equal to your number of take-offs, Preben Norholm
USAFHummer From United States of America, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 54 Reply 8, posted (12 years 3 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1476 times:
An-225,
You are referring to Mt. Evans I presume...I am guessing you drove up there since it is one of only two Colorado fourteeners to have a road to the top (the other is Pikes Peak)...the height I believe is around 14,050 ft.
Greg
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DesertJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7677 posts, RR: 18 Reply 9, posted (12 years 3 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1468 times:
Lemmon Rock, on Mt. Lemmon... about 9,000' msl. The summit is slighty more than 9,100'.
Stop drop and roll will not save you in hell. --- seen on a church marque in rural Virginia
USAFHummer From United States of America, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 54 Reply 11, posted (12 years 3 months 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 1462 times:
Highest point in Mich is about 2400 ft. (Mt. Arvon) if I recall right...
Greg
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Aa737 From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 849 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (12 years 3 months 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 1455 times:
Which ever is higher, the top of the mountain Vail or Beaver Creek is on. I have been to both, but I don't know which is higher. I think they are about 11,000ft.
CPDC10-30 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2000, 4759 posts, RR: 26 Reply 13, posted (12 years 3 months 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 1450 times:
10,039 ft...at the overlook point Mt. Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii. But that was cheating, the car did the climbing. The highest I have climbed by foot is Mt. Isobel in the South Island of New Zealand, elevation was ~7,000 ft.
Technically the highest is 41,000 ft in a 767-200, but I don't think that counts
XFSUgimpLB41X From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 3996 posts, RR: 36 Reply 15, posted (12 years 3 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 1443 times:
Arapahoe Basin, Colorado.... I went to the top which I stink is a little over 13,000... then hopped off and skiied down (they call it the North Pole... then that feeds into the East Wall... man i love skiing..i hate we didnt get to go this year). The next highest would be the top of the Outback Bowls at Keystone Resort which is a little over 12, then Haleakala in Hawaii (where my mom locked us out of the car...argh).
Easy_fella From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (12 years 3 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1435 times:
I've been to the top of la Meije at Les Deux Alpes in the French Alpes. Thats at about 3,600m. Not too high, but its at the top of one of the greatest off piste runs in the world. 2,300 vertical meters of unpisted glacier down to La Grave. Unreal!!
Turbulence From Spain, joined Nov 1999, 963 posts, RR: 24 Reply 21, posted (12 years 3 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1426 times:
The Jungfraujoch (something like the "peak of the virgin" in German: "jung" is young and "frau" is woman) in Switzerland: 3.450 metres / 11.320 ft. We were warned to walk slowly, not to do efforts and sit down immediately upon the smallest sign of being tired, due to insufficient oxygenation. I was 11 years old.
Corocks From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 1200 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (12 years 3 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1416 times:
About 16,000 feet. We were trying to climb to the top of the Cotopaxi volcano outside of Quito, Ecuador. We did not quite make it as several of the people in our group got tired. It is the tallest ACTIVE volcano in the world at 19,388ft (5,911m).
SAS_A330-300 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 24, posted (12 years 3 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1408 times:
Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
3718 m (11 154 ft) asl.
Very amazing to see all the Canary islands and the Atlantic Ocean at the same time.
Simon Larsson
25 USAFHummer: SAS-I think you got your conversions wrong...Teide is about 13000 ft.An-225-I checked and the summit of Evans is about 14,250 ft high...Greg
26 Samurai 777: Healaka, Maui, Hawai'i, at 10,023 ft (3055m) - I was up there in April 1989. Amazing sight to see - cinder cones galore and you even get to see the Ma
27 SAS_A330-300: Now I remember, I actually never reached the top because of time limit. There's a cableway up to the top but it ends about 3,550 m (11 800 ft). So you
28 WorldVoyager: Whistler (I don't know the elevation) or somewhere in the Canadian Rockies.
29 Leftseat86: I went fishing in the Sierras by Mt. Whitney and got up to a pristine stream with amazingly beautiful Golden Trout. A sign on the way up said 11,000ft
30 Blink182: it would 11,500 ft above sea level, the top of Beaver Creek mountain. Aa737- it is 11,500ft, not 11,000 ft rgds, blink182
31 SQA340: Hmmmmmm.............. I have been in the Sierra Nevada Mountians going to Lake Tahoe on US 50 to Stateline, NV. I dont know the exact elevation though
32 OH-LGA: I've been to the top of Mt. Whitney... yay!!! Elevation: 14.494ft (4418m) Moi, Kai
33 Carioca Canuck: There's a lot of skiers and boarders here I've been at 8,500 feet in the Canadian Rockies....on skies of course.
34 Us330: Pikes Peak, 14,000 ft. I have also been to the Kleines Matterhorn (Amazing how they were able to build a cable car terminal in that rocky outcrop), Ju
35 Goboeing: At Philmont Scout Ranch in Northern New Mexico, I climbed Baldy Mountain all the way to the top for an elevation of 12,441 feet MSL. Clouds would star
37 Redngold: Probably around 10,000 ft. The highest I can be absolutely sure of was at Bryce Canyon National Park's Rainbow Point, which is nearly 9,000 ft. above
38 Boeing747F: It has been sooooo high I don't remember... LOL
40 Starship: I'm not sure, but two locations do spring to mind and I took some photos to prove it. The Sierra Nevada mountain range near Granada, Spain - elevation
41 Starship: Perhaps not so high at 425m (1 400 ft), but an elevated location I thoroughly enjoyed going to was the top of the Rock of Gibralter. The 5km-long (3 m
42 Alle: Volcán Poas, Costa Rica, 2708 (8885 ft) meters above sea level. Regards Alexander Holst Helsinki, Finland ICQ 94604005
43 AC_A340: Mt Blanc in the French Alps. It's about 4000m. And the air is really thin up there.
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