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hoffmanmclaunsky t1_ja9odz2 wrote

driving up Haleakala is kind of a surreal experience. It just keeps going up. You start at warm balmy tropical beaches, two hours and 10,000 feet later you get out in a cold, desolate desert. And you can still see those warm balmy beaches in the distance. It's wild.

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turbanned_athiest t1_ja9qmr7 wrote

Did that on Mauna Kea, was amazing. Got an amateur astronomy guided tour of the sky on the way down. Fun fact: scuba diving and then driving up the mountain could give you decompression sickness, we must have been warned at least 5 times.

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Evolving_Dore t1_jaa9nxj wrote

And that's starting at sea level, not at the base, which is on the sea floor.

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