Your Highest Point On Land? Lowest?

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This is not a trick question. I have photos of both the highest place I've ever been on earth, as well as the lowest point of all.

Happy to share these VERY EXCITING pics if you are willing to tell the Group something about your own experience with high and low places on the planet.

posted by SkeeterThompson1

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Highest might be Mt. Shasta or Yellowstone, but I've also been to Jackson Hole (in the Tetons) and Aspen Mountain, so I don't know which one is higher. I'd have to Google that. How much lower can you get than sea level? Unless you are talking about diving.

posted by mallard6842
over 2 years ago

I have been to thet highest point in Nebraska, a sand hill in the middle of a cow pasture with a monument there.
Done lots of Mt. climbing in Colo. but noe of the 14er's
Have flown round and round the top of Denali.

posted by eaglewoman
over 2 years ago

My highest was from Chamonix in France in early 1970's. We took a gondola from town up to Aiguille du Midi (ay-gwee-doo-mee-dee), a rock needle 12,600 feet above sea level.

From there we took the most harrowing ride of my life, Europe's highest gondola, which leaves the Aiguille du Midi in France for Helbronner Point, an Italian border station.

This line stretches for three miles with no solid pylon at all. You dangle silently through the thin air of the Alps for 40 loooong minutes.

THIS IS NOT A POSTCARD

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posted by SkeeterThompson1
over 2 years ago

mallard:
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How much lower can you get than sea level? Unless you are talking about diving.
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I have the stunning answer if we get more participation in this thread.

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posted by SkeeterThompson1
over 2 years ago

My highest point would probably be somewhere along the Appalation Trail on the Blue Ridge Mountains between New York state and Georgia... most likely in North Carolina, near Ashville!

Lowest point in the US would be Death Valley... however, mine would be somewhere at the beach in Florida, at sea level. How about Key West?

posted by JimmyD57
over 2 years ago

I've never paid much attention to that, but I would say my highest point was in the mountains North of San Diego in California...and my lowest was probably in San Diego at the seashore - sea level.

posted by MsKelly
over 2 years ago

JimmyD:
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Lowest point in the US would be Death Valley
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You win the fried sausage, as usual, JamesD.

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This is Badwater in Death Valley, officially the lowest spot on the North American continent.

There is a sign attached to the rock wall above, indicating Sea Level. I've replaced the sign in this photo with typed-in text.

Some say a point in the basin just south of this tourist area is actually lower than here, but nobody cares.

posted by SkeeterThompson1
over 2 years ago

Highest point would probably be Arapahoe Basin in CO, 13,000+ ft. Even though I was living in Denver at the time I still started to suffer from altitude sickness and had to come down. No pictures from skiing there but here's one of my husband and I climbing the Flatirons in Boulder, about 8500 ft.

I don't dive, only snorkel so sea level would be my lowest point. This is Captiva in FL.

posted by kowboy83
over 2 years ago

Whoa...that top one is a doozy, kowboy. Makes me want to work on it....

posted by SkeeterThompson1
over 2 years ago

My highest Point would be Denali in Alaska. We camped and the hight made me sick. The lowest was Death Valley and is it HOT down there. I now am a few feet above sea leval and it's fine with me.