11-27-2017, 07:48 PM
"One major problem, though.
Every time I've gone to the top, I end up oxygen starved.
I really don't think I could expend the energy to ski up there unless I went up and lived there for an extended period, or carried an O2 bottle.
How do people that live near sea level and are no longer adolescent deal with it?"
You acclimate slowly. Best thing to do if you're only going up for a few hours is stop at the VIS for an hour and, if possible stop for five or ten minutes every so often after that to let your body adjust.
It doesn't work for everyone and even the odd well-conditioned athlete has had problems up there whereas some of us old fogeys do just fine. But I woudn't try skiing if you haven't acclimated.
Every time I've gone to the top, I end up oxygen starved.
I really don't think I could expend the energy to ski up there unless I went up and lived there for an extended period, or carried an O2 bottle.
How do people that live near sea level and are no longer adolescent deal with it?"
You acclimate slowly. Best thing to do if you're only going up for a few hours is stop at the VIS for an hour and, if possible stop for five or ten minutes every so often after that to let your body adjust.
It doesn't work for everyone and even the odd well-conditioned athlete has had problems up there whereas some of us old fogeys do just fine. But I woudn't try skiing if you haven't acclimated.