---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :
Thanks. I did take some Ibuprofen before going, since I read that if you get a headache while climbing, that aspirin, etc. can't stop, descend immediately. That's using your head. (get it?) Maybe they could offer little packets of coca leaves (indigenous chew constantly, i expect dental problems.)in the park gift shop, sold with a mandatory bus ticket, and/or armed escort, to the Mt. Lassen trail head: "Now Climb, Dammit!" Your self-motivation is admirable. I required hallucinogens to get going up, up... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : It was amazing, and once is enough. That is a tough one, in the thin air. I did feel nauseated above 10,000 feet, and that lasted a little while. Anything over a snail's pace during the climb is impossible. Did the R/T in 3:15, even so. Started at 7:15-ish, with about twenty people on the trail, total. The final push is up very loose rock, with a bad fall a step away. The surprise was how cold it was - 50 or so - numb finger tips from that, and the altitude. Didn't need climbing gear, except a hiking stick, and good shoes. Nice description. I feel you. 40 years ago I went high altitude in Peru. Coca Now I walk at sea level along the Hudson.River or Atlantic Ocean. Although a couple of weeks ago I went 'up' to the Pacific.
