On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 06:54:42 -0500, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote:

until they were returned to sea level pressure and could view
what they had written.

Of course, returning to standard pressure at Aspen means 8,000 feet.
Perhaps we are off the wall the whole time?

Still, I've never had a waiter complain that I was miscalculating the
tip. Perhaps I've been overtipping? It seems unlikely: my wife has
never complained.

Seriously, 11,000 feet is not a problem unless you have medical
problems. People get altitude *sickness* while skiing at high
altitudes; they might be insomniac; they get dehydrated, especially if
they booze it up; and sometimes they hyperventilate. (One of the ski
patrol tricks with ailing turkeys is to have them breath into a paper
bag, to *cut down* on their oxygen intake.)

Loveland Pass, west of Denver, was higher than 10,000 feet, and
carried all traffic before the I-70 tunnel was built.


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