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My friend had a similar experience when he took his (fat) cousin up the mountain.  At the top she decided to have a cigarette.  About three puffs into it she put it out and started laughing…. and gasping… and laughing convulsively.  The boys piled her into the back seat as she was turning purple, and laughing/gasping as they drove her down to lower elevations as fast as they could.  She finally stopped gasping and recovered her pink color down around 9,000 ft.  She says it was the best laugh she ever had… even if it nearly killed her!

which does increase hemoglobin concentration , I believe . In addition , I found out later that I have oversized lungs – back in the day of using photographic plates for lung X-rays , they had to use a second image to get the lower part of my lungs . As a kid growing up next to Lake Huron beaches my friends used to challenge me to see who could swim underwater the farthest . I always won – by a lot , so they would claim that I came up for air along the way . It got worse in high school because they took up smoking . I didn’t . I was also more slender , so hydrodynamic drag was less .
When I was scouting age , I joined the Sea Scouts . In the summer months we met at a ‘shack’ on yacht club property and would dive for bottle caps the Skipper would toss into the water . He once asked me to swim down to the bottom to gather up some … about 20 – 25 feet down . I did , but surfaced with a splitting headache . Sinuses ? I’ll never forget that pain !

Maya-sounds like you were scaling cliffs . The one I did was just a hike on an established trail . Below the ridge bluff was a glacier , so you would bring something waterproof to wrap around like a diaper , then slide down to the lake at the bottom of the bowl – half a mile maybe . Even on the cold surface , the speed and friction were enough to heat one’s backside to a very uncomfortable level – almost a burn .

Do you have a power splitter of some sort, or were you doing it by hand?

Those living in the mountains I never studied it but they’re lungs are developed to take in what air there is. Even at lower mountain I lived as a kid I noticed after awhile moving to lower elevations you don’t need to use all of your lungs.
I noticed my lower lungs particularly but when you go back up they kick in.
That’s without any injury or illness that could damage them along the way.
As time went on after picking up cigarette and through the years I could still go to higher levels because my lower lungs not using them as much were not totally but spared from the damage. What I noticed first was scuba diving and getting tight, harder to breath. You have to get past the upper lungs to get to lower.
Then a few years back I went up to Tahoe and went on the Gondola takijg you up higher. I was fine UNTIL I was waiting for people who were sliding down a mountain and lit up a cigarette. Then went back up so I lit up another and oh no. I could feel the oxygen leaving me like a air raft with a leak. I was losing air through body like hypoxia fast. I knew In had to move down the mountain fast went to the Gondola jumped on and headed down. Part way down it just stopped. I think they didn’t know anyone was there cuz I was there for about 5 minutes it seemed. Luckily I could breath again or those idiots could of found a dead person floating around on a gondola lol That’s when I thought about a paracord. Might be a good thing to have for those lifts.

Measured from the seafloor, the Maunakea volcano is the tallest on the planet.  Next door Maunaloa… “long mountain”… is the most massive mountain on the planet.  It is slowly settling into the crust, and we have small 2.5 earthquakes almost daily.

See… you weren’t careful!   🙂

There is an access road to the telescopes at the summit.  One has to be very careful and access is now restricted.  But I have been up there several times.  They recommend stopping at the visitor center at 9,000 ft elevation for 30-45 minutes minimum to acclimate to the altitude.  Even just sitting in a car, it is a ‘gasper’ at the summit.

But I love mountain-topping.  In my 20s I climbed Mt. Sneffels in Colorado at 14,156 ft.  I know the insane breathing management it takes to crawl up a wall at those altitudes.

Mountain areas getting a ski persons paradise if you can get there. One road is gonna be closed all winter. Chains now required. I think if I did skiing in this I’d have two wrist paracord’s with me in case you got stuck on the lifts.
I remember one year “ Donners pass” abouve is you go through me and a friend got on a bus that takes you back and forth to Reno.
Good thing we took a bus since we had no chains. On the way back there was a bunch of abandoned cars on the Hwy while we were waiting pass as they were checking cars first for safety covered with snow. Better to have to abandon your car than slide of a 1000 foot cliff so they were doing the right thing checking cars first not to mention getting stuck and freezing to death. It was bitterly cold out there that night.

That kind of work will get ya goin! We are burning wood all day long at this point. Nice and toasty!

I spent the day making little logs out of big ones so when the 70 degrees changes to 7, I will be ready.

Other gators have swallowed our early morning profits … sigh

79* and sunny at Cape Fear NC today. Gators are still active.

Just wait until we get warm moist air from the gulf coast with an overriding polar blast riding the jet stream. Every four or five years it shuts down the whole state. Then comes tornado season!

“80 degrees”

and I always thought Oklahoma was a midwest blizzardy kind of place!

Sheesh. Tough crowd!

It was 80 degrees on Christmas Day here. In 2009, we had 5 foot snow drifts, 60 mph winds and single digits temps. Most East-West roads were closed. Most North -South roads were clear. The storm started with rain, then freezing rain, then sleet changing to snow. This was in a state with no snow plows or no snow blowers. Power lines down everywhere. I was really serious about having a place in Belize!

People are still wearing shorts and flip flops during the day now. Sooner or later, the winds will change from the desert southwest to Artic air mass to warm moist gulf winds.

Silver seems to have some sort of low here. The moving averages have all turned up on the daily chart. Oil and natural gas are also steady to higher.

Stocks seem to be taking a breather.

both my ex-wives were english majors…

…ditto the nightmares.

I still have nightmares!

sounds pretty kinky!  just lying under there, would be tough!

Former Washington state Democrat campaigner sentenced for terrorist attack on railroad

A Washington state woman has been sentenced to a year in prison for sabotaging railroad tracks near the US-Canada border in Washington state in an attempt to derail a train carrying crude oil.
Ellen Brennan Reiche of Bellingham was sentenced Dec. 17 in US District Court in Seattle to 12 months and one day in prison for committing an act of violence against a railroad carrier. Reiche is also required to complete 100 hours of community service while on federal supervision.

https://thepostmillennial.com/former-washington-state-democrat-campaigner-sentenced-for-terrorist-attack-on-railroad

The thing I hate most about it is laying under your car putting on chains and icy water is dripping down your neck. Blechh!

for some reason the shares are doing OK but hard to know if they’ll hold. USD up yet again. Weird day when the SM is down, metals flat and shares up???

Bitcoin taking a hit, not sure why.

Alex – your life up in Canada was more like survival. Crazy. We’re cold in Idaho but nothing like that, worst I’ve see is -15 with wind chill. We also don’t get nearly as much snow either.

The future of Pan American Silver Corp.’s PAAS Navidad silver project is uncertain again as of Dec 20, after the executive of the Province of Chubut in Argentina repealed the mining law approved earlier this month. The law had triggered expectations that the company would be able to start the project — one of the world’s largest undeveloped silver deposits after an 18-year long wait

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pan-american-silver-paas-project-133201100.html

At close to 14 000 feet and with seabed locations close to Hawaii as deep as 18 000 feet , we’re talking over 30 000 feet elevation difference . Six miles !
In the late 1960’s I hiked to a ridge at 12 600 feet , and could only climb a few feet without a break to catch my breath as I neared the summit* . Yours , at a thousand feet higher , would be impossible for me to climb even 50 years ago.

* but at the peak was an old man , age 86 – a Mr. Oviatt who had made the climb every year since 1936 except for the year before .

” why didn’t you make it last year ?”
Mr. O “Because my doctor said my heart could not take it.”

” And this year ?”
Mr. O ” I didn’t go to the doctor.”

True story !

Yr right 1820 is a new line….we just lost $ 10 for no good reason.

and the scum is definitely fading it…

edit – on the other hand, let’s go silver!!!

Going to give it another try today?

Shares (HUI) didn’t perform so well yesterday, but metals continue to creep up.

Eventually, this is going to blow higher – I swear it will. 🙂