Paul n Dixie
Part of the furniture
Those shots from 3:48..
The rest was pretty schweeeet also
Wow, Mt Robson full view. We had to wait 3 days to see it like that!
Looks pretty good to me. I just checked this location on Google Maps, unfortunately it's a bit out of our way for our 2017 USA / Canada trip, but I might just review the itinerary.
In the meantime, I do have a couple of other locales on my "bucket list", Mt Evans and Pikes Peak. However, the highest sealed road in the Mt Robson area seems to be around 6,785ft, this might be an anti-climax after the 14,000ft plus of Mt Evans and Pikes Peak.
Anyone tried Mt Evans and Pikes Peak? Am I being too ambitious re. driving (sadly no riding these peaks for me) with the issues that can be associated with altitude sickness?
However, the highest sealed road in the Mt Robson area seems to be around 6,785ft, this might be an anti-climax after the 14,000ft plus of Mt Evans and Pikes Peak.
Anyone tried Mt Evans and Pikes Peak? Am I being too ambitious re. driving (sadly no riding these peaks for me) with the issues that can be associated with altitude sickness?
Anyone tried Mt Evans and Pikes Peak? Am I being too ambitious re. driving (sadly no riding these peaks for me) with the issues that can be associated with altitude sickness?
Jo and I rode up Pikes Peak in 2010. The altitude affected her more than me. I guess we only stopped at the top for about 10 minutes before she said she wasn't feeling so well and wanted to go back down (theres just a gift shop and a car park, not really much to do up there). Until she mentioned that I hadn't really been conscious of any effect on me, but then I did feel a bit 'tipsy' and lightheaded. When we camped for a night at the same altitude as Pikes Peak in India she suffered worse than I did (that was 14000ft at the bottom of a valley so no where to descend to).
Judging from my experience in India, if you go to one 14000ft peak and feel ill effects, when you go to the another 14000ft peak in a few days time you probably don't feel any effects of the altitude.