Mrs. Enipla and I live full time at 11,200 feet or 3413 meters.
Our house is in central Colorado USA, about a half mile from the continental divide. Our house is affectionately know as Cloud 8.
Roughly, 39 degrees north and 106 degrees west.
Any other high altitude dopers out there?
I wonder how many people live this high up.
I’m in Salt Lake City, at a part of town that is 4240 feet above sea level. That’s high enough (>3000) to follow the high altitude directions on cake mixes 
Of course, your elevation pretty much buries most of Utah, save for a few peaks in the Uintas, Wasatch, and LaSals.
There’s several Colorado dopers - me, TechChick, Mr. Cynical, Fenris, and um, a lot more that I can’t remember right now. Most live in the Boulder/Denver area, so we’re not as high as you are. We’d pretty much all be up for a nice vacation in the mountains, though. When’s the party?
Now, that’s a purely speculative observation! hic
you lucky bastard!
i grew up around 7400 ft but now im stuck at a lowly 5200 ft. man, your way up there!
i skied at over 5000 meters (as memory serves it was something like 15800 ft)in south america (1984) and had a ball till about the 8-9th run. i felt kinda tired, so i decided maybe it was time to stop. got into the back of the car and promptly blacked out. woke up a couple hours later in La Paz at the hotel…
good times! i have never needed drugs to get high!
Colorado Springs is at about 6400 feet, in the central part. I live in Briargate which is very high on a plains area (now housing development,) which I assume we are about 500-1000 feet higher than the main part of the original city. I can’t tell you what it is, I am just guessing based on my drive to the downtown area of C Springs, it’s much lower than where I live.
enipla where in CO do you live? The only real places I know that have habitat that people live in a community that high is Alma. Of course you could live in BFM where no one roams but the elk and deer.
Big joke, we would drive up there (through Alma) and count the dogs walking around the streets back in the 80s, more dogs than people were usually seen. Today I rarely see a dog walking around but it was fun to count the dogs back then.
TechChick,
You got it. Alma, except we are about 4 miles north on HWY 9, near the top of Hoosier pass.
Bears oh yes. No lions or tigers though. Friends claim they have seen mountain lion but I never have. I think there pretty rare at this elevation.
Do you know about the fake cop car in Alma? Actually it’s a real cop car but they can’t keep someone hired to do the police work. So they just prop a dummy in the car and put a hat on him. Of course his name is Barney.
30 feet above sea level at low tide - central Florida.
D&R
Albuquerque, NM 5200 downtown, around 6000 where I live, but Sandia crest is 13800. I 've gone up there a few times, and I can’t imagine living at that altitude. How do you cook?
I’m in Albuquerque too, where a number of African distance runners train to take advantage of the altitude. We’re about a mile high in town, but Sandia crest is actually 10,678 at its peak. The highest point in New Mexico is Wheeler Peak, near Taos, at 13,161 ft.
I can probably find your turn off if you told me…there’s that entrance to the left (when going north) where there are some houses and cabins up in the valley and if I remember correctly there’s a little building near there that “sells” property. There’s another major turn off up Hoosier, those are the only two I recall. Then there’s the wood pile and dirt pile on the right about 5 miles from Alma just before the long straightway that if you don’t pass a semi there, you are doomed to plugging along at 25 mph behind it.
enipla, I’ve spent a lot of my life going through that area, I love it. I have seen coyote, deer, hawk or eagle. I usually travel that way when heading up to Breckenridge.
My parents used to have a cabin in Blue River, damn I miss that place. If only I could afford property up there.
< sigh >
You remember well. The building that “sold” land was just out of Fairplay though. Our turn off is near the top of the pass so if we are coming from the south we do get caught behind those trucks.
I lucked out when I bought my house. I got in before things got totally and completely out of hand. My wife sold her 784 sq foot modular (read 12X65 trailer with wood siding) on .07 acres of land (that’s 3050 sq ft. - less than a big house) for $107,000! - a 28 year old MOBILE HOME! :eek: Not that I’m complaining but jeezzz.
enipla, your username finally makes sense to me.
::slapping forehead::
Strangly enough, cooking is no problem. I rarely even follow the high altitude directions. It seems to make things too wet. I consider myself a good cook and experiment a lot. Maybe I am doing something right just out of experience. I usually just wing it. The one thing that I can’t cook is rice, but that may just be me. Thank God for minute rice.
The altitude does affect some people, so you have to watch out for your visitors. I have never had altitude sickness but from what I have heard and seen it is not fun. I have seen people get headaches that brought them to tears.
The worst is the long winters. I can expect to have snow in my yard till June. Summers are beautiful but short. Summer was on August 3rd this year ;).
Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding. You got it Mr. Cynical. Alpine is also my Chocolate Labs name - she’s my best bud.
7200 feet here, just north of the Wyoming/Colorado border. A party in the Denver/Boulder area would be nice.
enipla.
That is a cool name, thanks for making me think Cynical.
I know the turn off you are talking about. That mountain valley is just beautiful.
I remember that building now, I do know that the first turn off – now that I think more about it, is closer to Alma and there are a couple of ponds, one of which (IIRC) you have to cross over. The turn off to your area is closer to the top, near a curve that if driving north veers left. I have always felt that would be a dangerous one at night or in a good snow storm. I am envious of your location, I would love to live in an area like that. I’m not much into having neighbors that can see in my bedroom window here in the cramped city lots. The only problem I would have would be during mud season. Mud season in the mountains can be a drag.
Pretty good memory since I haven’t driven up there since 1995, eh? My brother has a house up on Peak 9 in Breckenridge and we are having Thanksgiving up there. I will probably take the 1-70 route though since I live in northern C Springs, I would probably add an additional 1/2 hour to my drive time.
< sorry, I rambled there >
We were in Leadville, CO many years ago, decided to stop and walk around town, bought my nephew a cute bib with the ice castle thing embroidered on it. Then we decided to have a beer - no lunch, just a beer. Needless to say, we flat-landers were rendered more than a little woozy by one frigging beer. OWWWWWW, head rush! Just let me lay down on the sidewalk for awhile, and then we can keep driving.
And me. I live outside Pueblo.
TC68,
Check out http://www.co.summit.co.us. It’s Summit County’s web site. Scroll down till you see the spinning globe and click the globe. Through that you should be able to find your bro’s house by name, address, or legal. You should also be able to find your folks old place in Blue River.
I built the site that allows you to do these queries. It is still a bit cludgy, and goes down every couple of days. This is my first attempt at any Web app. As well as my first VB application. I suspect you may be a web developer, so, um be gentle.
Alpine.