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kain
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Interesting camp and vacation exepriences
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Jul 5 18:30 UTC 1996 |
It's summer people! ANyone have any interesting vacation or camp experiences
they'd like to share? This is the place
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response 1 of 71:
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Jul 6 17:57 UTC 1996 |
No...but i will be going to a summer camp july 18.
*yay*
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chana
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response 2 of 71:
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Jul 6 18:49 UTC 1996 |
Went to Australia for vacation. Very nice country. Nice people. I liked
Melbourne a lot. It's very clean and peaceful. Would like to live there
some day!
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denise
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response 3 of 71:
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Jul 6 19:51 UTC 1996 |
I'm on vacation this week... and I'm spending it in Ann Arbor!! :-)
[I used to live here but now reside in Durham, North Carolina.]
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freida
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response 4 of 71:
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Jul 7 02:10 UTC 1996 |
My summer vacation will be spent painting a mural for the city of
gaithersburg, MD. I am looking forward to finishing it, but bummed that no
one I know will be around to actually see it!
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doll
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response 5 of 71:
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Jul 7 13:49 UTC 1996 |
i will be leaving for loveland co. the grand canyon and sante fe n.m. in 20
days.....ill be gone for 10 days...miss me!!!!
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janc
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response 6 of 71:
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Jul 7 14:46 UTC 1996 |
(I worked in Loveland Colorado for three months once. It's an OK little town,
but the cool thing is the road from there up into the mountains, to Estes
Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. It's a gorgeous part of the country,
one of the best, and I'm sure you'll love it.)
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srw
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response 7 of 71:
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Jul 7 17:24 UTC 1996 |
I am not going on any vacations this summer, but I have been to the
Rockies. Particularly the portion of the Colorado "Front Range" that Jan
describes. It is magnificent. The Rocky Mountain National Park has
oodles of people during the summer, but just a bit south of it, there is a
marvelous area, part of the National Forest System, called the
"Indian Peaks" area.
There's a rustic campgtound at 10,500 feet altitude, and trails to the
continental divide at Pawnee Pass, which is 12,500. Only 4 miles away. but
allow all day for the hiking, and bring in something to drink.
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janc
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response 8 of 71:
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Jul 7 19:11 UTC 1996 |
Lots of people (including me) get altitude sickness when they get much above
8000 feet. You feel a bit weak and slightly sick. It's not really bad. I
usually take things a bit easy, drink plenty of water, eat salty foods for
a bit. It passes if you stay up there a few days. So if you do a trail
like the one Steve describes, don't plan on necessarily being able to zoom
through it.
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ox2
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response 9 of 71:
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Jul 7 20:22 UTC 1996 |
I went to a 7 day long summer camp. It was a tent camp. On one of the days,
me and a bunch of my friends sneaked off the camp and went swimming in the
flint river. We walked upstream until we came to about a 15 foot bridge (it
was 15 ft off the ground). The water was about 4 feet deep. We started out
just by jumping off. Then we got dareing and jumped off backwards and did
360's. Then one of my friends dared me to do a flip. So i did, and it was
the funnest thing ever. I started a new thing: Doing flips off the flint
river, i mean into the Flint river. When we got back to camp, our leaders
yelled at us and asked us where we went. We told them and they wanted to
know. So we took them there, and believe it our not, the whole camp made a
time where everyone could come and jump off the bridge just because of me!
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coyote
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response 10 of 71:
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Jul 7 20:41 UTC 1996 |
I went to U-M's Camp CAEN (Computer Aided Engineering Network), and sort-of
learned to program in C. Did lots of other stuff there, too, but that's the
most notable.
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giry
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Jul 7 21:40 UTC 1996 |
Colorado must be popular this year, I too am heading out there in less than
two weeks, but we are driving out there so hopefully the altitude sickness
will be lessened a bit. <cross fingers>
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srw
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response 12 of 71:
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Jul 8 07:17 UTC 1996 |
The first time I encountered that trail, my two kids were too young. I had
to do some carrying, and I did run into altitude problems with that exertion.
I went back prepared a few years later, and it was no problem. Yes, don't
underestimate the altitude's affect. It is very real, but it is still very
manageable trail for most people if you allow enough time, and bring water.
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janc
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response 13 of 71:
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Jul 8 18:31 UTC 1996 |
I don't think driving helps much. I always drove in, but Denver is only at
5000 feet, too low to cause most people any problem. It's the actual climb
into the mountains that gets people. However, I have the impression I had
less problems when I'd been living at 5000 feet for some time than when I
had just arrived in the area. In any case, it isn't a big problem for most
people. Just something to be prepared for.
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rcurl
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response 14 of 71:
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Jul 8 21:51 UTC 1996 |
We've been skiing at Winter Park the past several years. The town is at
8,000', and the lodge at the top is at 10,000'. I've never noticed any
effects at those elevations. Even at 14,000 one only huffs and puffs a bit
more (when I was lots younger.... ;->). But there are lots of warnings
around town to not overdo yourself on the mountain, which is probably a
good approach while you are determining your own limits. We'll be in
Colorado too, in August, but we aren't planning any hikes above 10,000'.
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asp
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Jul 8 23:51 UTC 1996 |
I usually takes a day to get over altitude sickness, if you take it easy.
When I was in Colombia and Ecuador, I lost weight, which I believe to be
a pleasant side effect of altitude
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remmers
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response 16 of 71:
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Jul 9 16:08 UTC 1996 |
I wonder if one's ability to adjust to altitude changes diminishes
with age, especially if you're out of practice and have spent most
of your life at low altitude. When I was a kid, my family regularly
vacationed in the Yellowstone Park area, and I don't recall having
any problems with the altitude after a day or two. Five years ago
we took another trip to that region -- my first extended exposure
to high altitude since 1959. In the whole two weeks we were there,
I didn't feel that I had fully adjusted to the altitude change.
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rcurl
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Jul 10 01:09 UTC 1996 |
One's ability to adjust to most physical challenges diminishes with age
(past 20). The body builds up your red-blood cell count with extended time
at a high elevation, which I think would not occur as rapidly as one
gets older.
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general
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response 18 of 71:
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Jul 10 21:04 UTC 1996 |
The only experiences I have with altitude change is the usual pressure build
in the ears. =P I've lived in low altitudes all my life. Alpena is damn near
sea level being a lakeshore town.
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danr
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response 19 of 71:
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Jul 10 23:24 UTC 1996 |
I just spent a long weekend up north on Elk Lake (near Traverse City). It
was miserable. :( It was cool and rainy and the mosquitoes were all over.
I'm going to visit a friend in Holland in a couple of weeks. We're going
cycling in Belgium, which should be fun.
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rcurl
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response 20 of 71:
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Jul 11 06:16 UTC 1996 |
Alpena is damn near 580 feet above see level (which is Lake Huron level).
Speaking of age and adaptation to altitude...when I lived in CA a group
of colleagues and I used to hike and climb in the Sierra Nevada. We were
all age ca. 30-35, and in great condition. One summer a cousin of one
of us came along and we spent a weekend climbing Mt. Lyell, starting at
about 8,000 and climbing to about 14,000. The cousin was 19 and had not
had any mountain or climbing experience. He would run ahead, and then
run back to see how we were doing.......
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other
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response 21 of 71:
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Jul 11 06:58 UTC 1996 |
The highest elevation i'vre hit on this trip so fasr was at mcdonald pass, the
continental divide at 6850 ft. on us-12 just west of helena montana. my bike
had a little trouble breathing (i lost some power) but i was fine.
Right now i'm at the Speakeasy, an internet cafe in seattle.
at some point soon, i plan to be climbing cliffs in oregon....
i'll leave the bike for that part....
a very cool little state park near selby, south dakota named
Lake Hiddenwood State Park, was my home one night this past week.
it is literally invisible from anywhere more than 1/4 mile away.
it is sunken into the middle of the great plains, and it is a lovely little
oasis in a grassland desert.
on the other hand, the Whitewater Lake Campground in the Kettle-Morain State
Forest in southern Wisconsin was mosquito hell last monday night, 1 july.
Updates as I reach computers,.....
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nsiddall
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response 22 of 71:
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Jul 11 14:22 UTC 1996 |
It's generally believed by mountaineers that older folks adapt better
to high altitudes. Something to do with maintaining acid/base balance
in the body. It's probably not very well studied or understood, but
I think it's clear that people under 30 or so are at higher risk of
pulmonary embolism and other altitude-related problems. There's a
lot of individual variation. Just be sure not to get dehydrated.
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kewy
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response 23 of 71:
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Jul 12 19:20 UTC 1996 |
i just got back from summer camp... it was great... i hd so much fun... the
staff was *really* cool, there was someone from england, so that was cool,
cuase we talked about england and york (cause i was there last april). And
there was another guy from Poland, who taught me how to swear in polish, and
made me a copy of his polish techno cd....
tomorrow i'm leaving for vacation up north with my family... busy summer.
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denise
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response 24 of 71:
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Jul 12 22:21 UTC 1996 |
[This is item 37 in agora and 57 in the travel conference.]
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