I just recently visited Colorado. The terrain and climate is very different there. Why? One reason is the elevation. Elevation is how far the land is above sea level. In Houston, we are very close to sea level, only about 25 foot above sea level. But in Colorado, the elevation is much higher. I flew in to Denver, known as the "mile high city". Can you guess why it's called that? If you guessed because of its elevation, you are right! It is exactly one mile high, that's 5280 feet above sea level. From Denver we traveled even higher into the mountains.As we traveled by car up the mountain the air got thinner with less oxygen and cooler. The sites were beautiful and the roads were steep and winding.
At the highest point we were 12,784 feet above sea level. In the next few blogs I will share what we observed when we got to the top of the mountain!
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