[pct-l] Acclimation to altitude

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

The good news is that you will have been at quite high altitudes for  
a month before you hit the High Sierra. And you will walk to the High  
Sierra, making your altitude gain automatically gentle. You will  
acclimatize painlessly.

Once in a while someone will have trouble, but it is typical that you  
won't have any trouble.

I remember talking with Maw-ee and Paw-ee near Tehachapi. They were  
talking about the high, 5000 foot altitudes of the AT. I checked the  
Data Book and informed them they were sitting at higher than 5000  
feet right now.

You will be even higher than 5000 feet well before Tehachapi.

On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:26 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> The wisdom used to be that it takes about 20 days at altitude to  
> gain decent
> acclimatization (is that a word?).