We're not in Portland anymore, Toto

To give you perspective, Portland's elevation is about 50 ft. Today, my lungs were exposed to 7,040 ft elevation, and they were not happy.

Today we hiked to Hanging Lake, about 2 hours West of Breckenridge. The hike is only about 1.2 miles, but it's extremely vertical, and it's like you're climbing stairs for 2 hours straight. Stair-master x100!!! The hike was so worth the view, once at the top the lake was aqua blue with a showering waterfall filling it with icy water. The way down was so much easier (it always is though). Although, I will be hiking Torres del Pines (Patagonia) in February, the altitude there is actually closer to sea level, then this hike.