by mostly bus, a few car, van tours, I went from about 245ish ft from my higher Manhattan nabe to Flagstaff, AZ in about ? 2 1/2+ days by bus at 6,909 ft, Grand Canyon Southern Rim at 7,000 ft. I was 26, then 27 for trip #2.
(up until then the highest I'd ever been were short
visits to The Catskills 3,000+ to the Adirondacks 4300+ )
I lugged my bags, walked all around with out any trouble. Maybe the slow increase in altitude helped. 👍
The next summer got to Alburquerque, NM 5,313 ft. then went north to Rapid City, Sourh Dakota 3,203 ft.
Touring the Black Hills at 7,242 ft.
Then when I came down from from SD to Denver 5,280 ft my cousin who was at Uni there took me up (by motorcycle! (!!!!)! to
Echo Lake in The Rockies(!) (north east of Mt Evans) at 10,600 ft!
Decades later at 64 I went to Baulmes, Switzerland for 3 wks (and a 4 day trip to Paris around end of the 2nd third) at 2,103 ft.
It's part way up at the Eastern edge of the Jura mountain range in Western Switzerland, French speaking section. On clear days we could see the Alps not super easily bc they were bathed atmospheric blue. My aunt took a fabulously clear photo of them with a telephoto lens in the winter in the earlier part of the day, the sun lighting them dramatically!
We went further up part way the mountains behind the village to get to some other places lower down.
Also into the valley below to another town about 3 miles east.
Again, blessed to be free of any altitude problems. 💖👍
🤔 Perhaps the fact that I live in a fairly hilly neighborhood, and often (way less in the pandemic to the highest point) am walking up & down may have kept my exercise level up enough to not have problems in Switzerland. 👍
While a few concerns, upsets happened during these three trips (plus one to San Juan, Puerto Rico) I mostly had fascinating, glorious, fun, funny, wonderful, and *wonderous* times! 💖💖💖💖
Some of my best experiences! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
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