About 7200 feet. I love it. I've long since made all the high altitude adjustments needed for cooking. Oh, and for those of you more recently to high altitude, trust me, the conventional wisdom is wrong. PM me if you need to.
I feel as if I can breathe more easily here, although that's probably entirely in my head.
The thing about living at high altitude is this: Your red blood cells take in less oxygen when at altitude, and so you need to manufacture more red blood cells for that purpose. Not sure how long it takes, but meanwhile you need to drink LOTS of water, rest, and let nature take its course.
I've lived here since 2008, so I am more than acclimated. In 2014 I was at a writers conference in Taos, at 10,000 feet. I could tell the difference between Santa Fe and Taos. Every other person attending lived essentially at sea level, and I kept on telling them they needed to drink lots of water and not expect to do the normal walking or whatever they were used to doing. It was a two week program, and during the weekend I went back one day to Santa Fe to pick up my mail and do laundry. Once I got below 9,000 feet, I suddenly felt a lot better and had more energy. Interesting.
I often tell people that living at high altitude is almost as good as working out. Some years ago, when I lived in Boulder, CO, at 6,000 feet, I went on a family trip to Ireland. One day my two year old son tried to escape me, so of course I chased after him. When I caught him, I was struck by the fact I was not winded, as I would have been in Boulder after a similar chase. Hmmm. More recently, I was in the Washington DC area, helping a relative clear out his house. My sister, who was also there, commented that I did so well, was never tired or anything like that. I'm 73 years old, and will admit to not exercising as much as I should. But living at altitude definitely has its advantages.
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