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Wahots ,
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Mt Rainier in WA, 4,392m (14,410 ft). It’s a beautiful mountain, climb it while it still has good glaciers. I’ve done it twice, and it’s among some of the climbs I like most. I am interested in hitting some of the California mountains and some in South America too, though the latter might have to happen when I have more free time.

NotSpez OP ,

Sounds great! In south america, I can thoroughly recommend the Chachani near Arequipa in Peru. Back in the day Zarate was the best guide service. A bit more expensive than the rest but clearly more qualified.

AceQuorthon ,

Uhh probably some big ass hill idk

SurpriZe ,

About 30-40 meters. Not sure exactly. It was a hard climb without a path. Just rocks and bushes. Quite steep too. But the view was terrifying.

antlion ,
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Highest elevation so far Mt Whitney (14,505’, 4,421 m). Pretty uneventful climb since it was the end of over two weeks on the John Muir Trail. The previous 5 days was almost entirely avoid 10,000 ft. We slept on the shoulder of the mountain and sauntered up in the morning in about an hour.

Highest climb from the bottom to top was maybe Mt Williamson (14,379’, 4383 m). Trailhead is about 6300 ft, so at least 8,000 ft of climbing (2440 m). It was very difficult, climbed over 2 days. Not much time to adapt to the altitude. The hardest part was the realization that the top is exactly half way. I just wanted to paraglide down or get a helicopter ride. Some very difficult rocky terrain.

Honorable mention is Mauna Kea (4207 m). I had a magical elixir of coffee and Maca (REBBL Chocolate flavor), and powered to the top without altitude sickness. I haven’t tried it since, but I will try Maca again next time I’m going up in elevation above 10k ft.

ProtonBadger ,

Himmelbjerget (Sky Mountain) in Denmark, it's an entire 147m

Well, I've also climbed some baby mountains in Western Canada, like Grouse Mountain (just a short hiking trail) and the Columbia Ice Field (basically drove up there) but how can the compete to Himmelbjerget ‽

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

The highest mountain I ever climbed was the two meter hill near my old home. I had to climb it whenever going to and from school. You could sometimes find me chilling half-way up the trek.

NotSpez OP ,

Were you always able to do it without oxygen masks? Maybe you can do the sequel to 16 peaks on netflix! ;)

disconnectikacio ,

2142m/7027ft to Prislop in Tatras, from the parkink place at 900m, so the climb was 1200m on foot. Also 2100 at Mangart saddle in julian alps, but with motorbike 😆

VerbTheNoun95 ,

The highest elevation was Cascade Canyon in Grand Teton (~7,000 ft and ~2,000 meters I think). Highest mountain however would Algonquin Peak in the Adirondacks (5,114 ft and 1,558 meters). Definitely my favorite mountain, it just looks like a huge slab of land. Lots of scrambling around the rocky peak with a great view of the surrounding mountains.

dan1101 ,

All the way from bottom to top while hiking, the highest was probably Old Rag Mountain in Virginia. About 900 meters (2952 feet) at the top. Trail is moderate incline with a little rock scrambling at the top. Big boulders at the top to lounge on and great views. It used to be fairly obscure and you wouldn’t see many people but now it became popular with the Northern VA/DC/MD crowd and it got so crowded you have to pay a fee and I believe make a reservation to climb it now.

I have also climbed straight up a wild mountain with no trails in Grant County, West Virginia. It’s about 700 meters (2296 feet.) We crossed a river and went straight up, using trees to pull ourselves up the steep slope for most of the way. I’m not sure what the mountain is called, but it is rocky at the top and has a great view of a campground below.

NotSpez OP ,

Exploring like that is awesome

Admetus ,

We climbed the mountain in Kandersteg, Switzerland. I was basically a young teenager, we were on a scout trip there, with various other troops mostly from England. A bit like a jamboree. 3/4 up the mountain we got pelted by hail, and you wouldn’t believe how painful it was even under the hood of my jacket to be pelted like that, especially against the ears. Some unfortunate ones with no gloves/hood had no choice but to cover their ears with their bare hands, and these were bleeding following those few minutes of the storm.

It was exhilarating. After getting to the warmth of the chalet we also got to go across the glacier, with yawning chasms in full view literally a yard or two away from our feet. Such things few youths have done, and I would recommend it for my own children if I could.

CaptainBlagbird , (edited )
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To the Blüemlisalp-Hut which is at 2840m above sea level. Uff what a bad timing with the hail 🙈 On clear days it’s so beautiful up there by the glacier. I worked there some time ago over multiple weeks. (It might even be possible that we’ve met, depending on the year/date you visited).

I hiked up/down there more than anywhere else (probably about 25 times). The very first time I started too fast and overestimated my condition a bit, it was nice to feel my limits. Later, my record time for hiking up was just above 2h. I tried to be faster, but never managed to crack that 2h mark. Oh well… (The signpost says 4h10, and/but a normal paced hike took me about 3h.)

On a side note: Last year the glacier was significantly smaller than the previous years, that really was a shock to see with my own eyes rather than “just reading about it in a news article” 🥺

KingJalopy ,

Don’t remember the elevation, maybe 11,000 something… but I hiked to the peak of Mount Rose outside of Tahoe. It just so happened the monarchs were migrating through at the time and it was the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen. There must’ve been millions of them everywhere. It was like a black cloud flying around us. So many were on the trees it looked like the trees were breathing.

TheHellDoIKnow ,

Not a mountain exactly, but I hiked to Everest Base Camp which was 5,364 meters. About 2 days and 200 meters lower I had started having very strange dreams that come with that altitude. At Base camp, little tasks became more difficult, I had an ever present headache, and I woke on the hour every hour during the night. But fuck me, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

BackOnMyBS ,
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what kind of strange dreams??

skybreaker ,
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Longs Peak Colorado (14259ft / 4345m). A lot of people get altitude sickness on this one and my girlfriend at the time did. So I left her behind. Jk. We eventually made it to the top. It was an amazing view and only took us the day but we had to get started early in then morning (like 5am) so that we were done before it got dark in the evening.

timeisart ,

Just did Long’s this past week for the 2nd time, my wife had to get revenge on this mountain after getting psyched out on the trough 13 years ago. absolute pain in the ass of a mountain but a beautiful experience at the same time… we call it “type 2 fun”, meaning you might not enjoy it while you’re doing it but you’re glad you did it once it’s over.

ExLisper , (edited )

I tried climbing Ojos del Salado (6,893 m / 22,615 ft) but only got to about 6.300 m. We spend around 10 days acclimatizing staring at ~3.500m and staying at various shelters at progressively higher altitudes. On 2 days I felt like shit (hangover like symptoms), rest of the days I was weak but it was manageable. Before the attack day I barely slept (I was tired, stressed and in a tent with people snoring). During attack it was really cold (like even with all the high altitude gear) and going up was super difficult. The worst part is that going down is also really hard so you have to calculate you strength for both ways of the trip but it really hard to judge how much more can you take. Half of the group resigned after first hour or two. The rest resigned when it became clear the weather is not improving and it will not be possible to get to the top.

Three days later I climbed Pico Vallecito (17831 ft / 5435 m). I used acclimatization from the failed attempt and just hiked to the top alone. It was quite hard, especially above 5000m I was moving slower than I expected. I wasn’t very tired but I just didn’t have energy to move at normal speed. Going down was easy so I made it down on time after all.

NotSpez OP ,

Sounds pretty hard! And you’re braver than I am, going >5.000m all alone. Altitude can really get to you

ExLisper ,

There were other people on the mountain, I was only alone the last 1000m or something. Some people obviously knew where I’m going and I had some satellite communicator with me. And since I just got down from >6000m I knew I should be fine and what to expect. I other situation definitely would not attempt that.

Pencilnoob ,

Just got back from Boulder, did South Boulder Peak which was 8549’. The climb to Bear Peak just below South Boulder was the best part, it was so steep, we climbed 3000’ in two miles.

Here’s a cool pic from the top https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2888cd1e-0f08-4ece-987e-3fa8d2f67104.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ba575bf7-f2fe-4aa2-aa9d-6c465a610224.jpeg

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