Not long after moving to Denver—at an approximate elevation of 5,280 feet, it’s called the Mile High City for good reason—my wife stumbled across a post in the Denver subreddit that subsequently imprinted itself on me.
The original post was the simple question of what newcomers liked most about living in the region.
Of course, there were The weed! posts—a legal distinction subsequently and thankfully made partly moot by the many other states that have legalized marijuana in the past five years—but there were far more posts about the strange benefits of living at altitude.
The one that has stuck with me—because it was something I’d noticed—is that after hanging up your shower-wet towel, it takes only a few hours for it to dry off.
Taylor Coe 