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Thanks Joe

Fubarski, seems like an O2 generator would be useful where you have a continuous need for O2. But for one-time use like you're saying, seems that bottled O2 would be the way to go. Just the weight of the bottle and O2, nothing extra.

Have you looked around for that?

Just got back from a hike up Kilimanjaro at 19,341 feet AMSL.

Go slow on the ascent and climb high but sleep low worked for us.

Climb high and sleep low has worked for Himalayan climbers since the 1950s.

Climbing at 10,000ft, Kilimanjaro climbing and Himalayan climbing are three different scenarios.

Climbing at 10,000ft, Kilimanjaro climbing and Himalayan climbing are three different scenarios.

Just my opinion based off of a lot of climbing, hiking, and hunting in the mountains. You are wasting your money, pack space, and adding unnecessary weight. If you have problems functioning at 10K you really need to be working on your fitness.

Well said.

Here's an existing product that seems to be the same concept, delivered in a different way:

https://www.oxygenplus.com/collections/skinni/products/3-pack-o-skinni-natural

I was thinkin a concentrator could do the same thing, without bein disposable.

Just an add on to consider. bottle or concentrator is heavy. I am on oxy 24/7. Batteries for those last about 1 hour, and the units are around 20 lbs. To rent or buy legally you need a prescription. You can get one on the black market, generally used and abused. So there is the downside.

Exercise and get up there a few days earlier, forget the playing around with oxygen carriers. You can get too much and it can really screw you up.

So, we'll put you down for "both"

There aren't any problems functioning anywhere.

I'm trying to find a way to put the hikin in, while acclimatizing, part easier.

Like the oxygen masks they have at football games. Player gets gassed, hits the O2 on the sideline, ready ta go.

Was thinkin of tryin ta lose weight, but I didn't wanna get caught up in onea those "eat less and exercise" scams.

Not too many people have climbed more high peaks in North America than KC, listen to him.

In the Pacific Northwest, many of us are more impressed with Colorado ice climbers than we are with Colorado "North American high peak climbers".

So, now that you've introduced us to KC, Peakbagger... have KC fill us in on the details. Some of us love route details, especially of remote Alaskan, Canadian and Washington State peaks. Colorado peaks...not so much.

Is it really necessary to be so snarky?

I can't speak for the sheriff, but for me it is. Ii's really tough not to be when you're an expert on virtually every subject.

Unlike smokespoles...whom is deliberately stupid...again.


Feel free to howl at the sky...you seem to be good at it.

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When I went backpacking with KC we talked about those peaks. They include all the high ones in North America, Mckinley, Robson, and the Pacific Northwest. You have stepped on your dick.

Oooohhh...backpacker...tough guy! You couldn't follow me for three miles, fatboy. Betting you rarely separate yourself from your pickup more than 200 yards.

You got to have one to be ABLE to step on it. You probably made a good girl scout, though.

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