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What's the highest you've been this year?
(it's probably local) (measure from sea level) |
Sainsbury's, Islington (42m)
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Bergh Apton (43m)
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Ashton Court, Bristol (125m)
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192m: the top of Holcombe Hill
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I believe Chiswick Bridge, which is 19m above sea level at it's highest point if I have researched it correctly.
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Greppon Blanc, near Siviez, Valais, Switzerland (2630m). Without mechanical assistance above road level, top of the (closed) Contamines-Montjoie lift system, France (2100m). I'm afraid I'm skewing this game by living in travel-unrestricted Switzerland with (for now) free movement to France over land, and having a pair of touring skis.
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526m.
Highest point of Buttertubs Pass. My journey to get milk is fun even in a Toyota Auris. |
Chesham Bois woods: 178 m
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69m at Everton, Bedfordshire
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192m on the South Downs in Hampshire, a mile from my home (136m)
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Altitude Cent, Brussels (100m)
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755m on a hike on (but not to the very top of) Tai Mo Shan (here in Hong Kong).
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Living and confined in deepest Lincolnshire - 0
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Probably Burg Eltz in the Mosel Valley, Germany, 320m, or the nearby Burg Arras, unknown height. I do however live in Germany.
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135 metres at Hampstead Heath Whitestone pond
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430m, near Fivewells Farm, Chelmorton, Derbyshire. Bike ride.
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Heelands Recreation Ground, Milton Keynes (113m)
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Third floor of my office building in Lusaka, Zambia - so circa 1,300m above sea level.
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113m in Epping Forest
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Crystal Palace Park (107m)
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In my attic
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855m, Ruselabsatz in the Bavarian Forest - on the main road at the saddle of the pass (a Covid-restriction compliant exceptional trip to a conveyancing solicitor / notary!).
My house in Munich is exactly 500m asl. |
Zug (570m), with a luckily planned holiday inbetween the two lockdowns.
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High point of Bush Hill 45metres - on the daily exercise route.
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Not high. My ex sister in law in Langwarrin at 81 metres.
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Sydenham Hill (112m)
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Wrotham Hill on the M20 (220m)
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135m - Sherrardspark Woods, WGC
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238m - OS spot height on road between Alton and Petersfield in Hants.
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Muswell Hill - 105 m
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101m, local hill (but I live at 82m anyway)
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Leith Hill - 294 metres. About 20km north from where I am currently.
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King Henry's Mound in Richmond Park (56m)
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Enfield Town 30 metres
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Shirley Hills near Croydon
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Gibbet Hill at the Devil's Punch Bowl - 272m
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In 2021 so far, cycle path past Pembroke Lodge in Richmond Park- about 52m. (Didn't visit King Henry's Mound this time).
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Muswell Hill 105m
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Wasn’t expecting to see Langwarrin mentioned in here; I’ve got lots of family there.
Last Sunday I went up onto the downs near Winchester which looks like 97m. |
83m - at the top of a tall chimney stack in Streatham Hill
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Highgate Village 139 metres, and Woods
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126m, Priory Church of St Mary and St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill
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Saddle Road NZ (350m)
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8 m - top floor of my home, which is below sea-level in the Netherlands.
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230m North Downs at Reigate.
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92 metres at Finchley Church End
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Shooters Hill, 130m
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Nunhead Cemetery, 62m
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Hampstead Heath, 137m
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Werneth Low, near my house. 279 metres.
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My attic
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Mine's Arkley on the A411 between Stirling Corner and Barnet Church, at 147m (482 feet).
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275m in hilly Calderdale.
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15m with my feet on the ground (various points in and around West Ham Park).
About 22m in the loft of my house. |
Highgate, 136m.
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On New Year's Day I went for a walk on Tooting Bec Common, which is straddled by a 30m contour line
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Whitestone Pond.135m.
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Dunstable Downs: 243m
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A visit to a friend near High Wycombe, 175m
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220m. Walk to Sidmouth
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Totterdown, 65m
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45m, near the top of 'Pancake Hill' in Claybury Park.
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I thought it would have been Rame Head Coastguard Station, around the coast from Mount Edgcumbe (93m). But in fact it’s an obscure corner just North of Taverners Green in Essex (97m).
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58m in Epping Forest
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201.4m Crossing the top of Devils Dyke
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25m, half-a-mile away from home (12m).
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near Sainsburys Islington. 42m
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 48m
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For 2021: 266 metres (873 feet), A615 outside Tansley, Derbyshire
In last 12 months: 3226 metres (10584 feet), Aigulle Rouge, Les Arcs |
Haddington Hill, near Wendover on a dog walk (267m)
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Reigate Hill 235 metres
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Top of my road in St Albans at 130m. Haven't been far at all in 2021.
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80 metres, Caversham Heath golf course, Oxfordshire, 2021.
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153m
Showell Lane Meriden, west Midlands. |
Not left home in Norfolk this year so just 40m.
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Shooters Hill 120m
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This year it would be 72m on Ringwood Road in Bournemouth.
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on the drive out to Hatfield, about 117m at Barnet
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Shooters Hill 125m
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145metres on Epsom Downs
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Hampstead Heath 137m
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Carrickgollagan in south county Dublin, 328 metres.
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Highgate - 132m
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About 14m, in low-lying Cambridgeshire
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Clapton High Street - 26m....
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I join PJS and Johnny Topaz on Muswell Hill 105m
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Shotover Hill, Oxfordshire, 170m
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Just 10m, I live on the isle of Sheppey
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~140m - local Walmart (St. John's)
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My parent's house in Sheffield which is about 205m above sea level
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34m in Shernhall Street on Walthamstow.
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In 2021, probably Banstead at ~165m.
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78m - (a side road in Sutton en route to the supermarket shop.
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260m on old A3 at Hindhead, Surrey.
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Hainault Forest near Dog Kennel Hill so about 80m
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57m in the Walthamstow Forest
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Sidcup, 50m
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120m, at the bottom of Anerley transmitter.
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Sanderstead Church, 165m
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somewhere a little over 70m, near Cambourne (Cambridgeshire) I think
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The office I used to work in, about half way up the Citigroup Center in NYC, so elevation 150 m give or take.
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So far this year 49m between Kingsbury and Queensbury stations.
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Strava tells me it's 991m, just north of Whistler BC
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Bürglen (Albis), Switzerland. 915m. You'd expect me to be higher, but I'm trying hard to stay local...
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A brief excursion to Chapel le Dale in North Yorkshire, at 254m.
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Noak Hill (77m)
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Dodworth colliery tip (disused) 182m
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54m. Just down the road from the house I am in, so just beating (I think) upstairs in the said house, whose ground floor is at 51m. I could have climbed a tree in the park and added on a couple of metres, but I haven't yet done so, and that may be a little undignified anyway for a 72-year-old.
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A whole 17 metres asl (RM8)
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130m, between the A21 and Bedgebury Pinetum in Kent.
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Amersham Town: 150m
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Ditchling Beacon (248m)
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Bassersdorf 488m (near Zürich, Switzerland)
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