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Re: Altitude Sickness

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Subject: Re: Altitude Sickness
From: Gerard Chateauvieux <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:59:48 -0700
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Reply-to: Gerard Chateauvieux <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
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Thanks to everyone who replied on this one. I passed on all the helpful
information to John.

Gerard


At 1:12 AM -0700 10/12/99, Gerard Chateauvieux wrote:
>Listers,
>
>This is from a friend of mine who's not on the list. Anyone have experience
>in this area?
>
>Gerard
>
>>
>>Gerard,
>>     Last weekend, I decided to get out of town for a few days to go on
>>a road/ backpacking trip in my midget through Yosemite National Park.
>>To make this trip bearable, I first had to put a few modest upgrades on
>>my car.  One of these was the installation of a new 40 Watt x 4 channel
>>detachablr face CD player.  The other was the installation of my factory
>>style Spridget luggage rack.  Any way the trip went great except for one
>>thing, my car suffered from "Altitude Sickness".
>>    The entrance to Yosemite is roughly 4300 feet, which is where I
>>started having problems.  We actually drove up to 9000 feet but the
>>symptoms got worse.  The problems I was having was lack of acceleration,
>>and fever.  I figured that the two problems were related and caused by
>>the lack of air, and the steep terain I was driving in.  The altitude
>>sent my air fuel mixture way out of wack, and the load on my engine
>>climbing those peaks made my temperature guage soar.  Is there anything
>>I could do in the future to avoid this problem?
>>
>>
>>
>>John Christ
>>
>>farlex@pacbell.net

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  R R        pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com
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