Is the air so fresh in Alaska you breathe differently?

[oceanfun77]

Or so I've heard from a co-worker. I'm from a very urban city.

[mpace58]

Well it is remarkably clean and clear. You can see much further than normally, but I don't think you breath any differently.

[Keith1010]

I don't breathe differently, but appreciate the cleaner air and the beauty of Alaska.

 

Keith

[PennyAgain]

The air is cleaner until there are wild fires and/or a volcano goes off. The Anchorage basin can have some awful pollution.

[travelbug11]

For me, coming from smoggy Southern California, the air is much cleaner and so fresh, I just want to get out and walk.

[chipmaster]

Being in such beauty can highten one's senses to the simple things in life.

 

I could see the ships exhaust from a neighoring ship trail for miles and miles

 

I could smell the varnishing on the deck at 5am as I watched the waterfalls move into the rising sun.

 

Oh yeah when it is really cool, crisp and you can see for maybe a hundred miles it almost seems like you are breathing differently :D

 

Or so I've heard from a co-worker. I'm from a very urban city.

[mytime53]

Well, I know it works the opposite way--I find myself unconsciously holding my breath when I visit smoggy locales. At some point I think I'm getting ill, and then I realize that I'm hardly breathing. I feel like I'm poisoning myself when we visit large cities. Looking at the smog in LA makes me feel like I'm killing myself to breathe there. But after a 17 day trip to China a few years back, I was thankful to breathe the "clean"er air of LA. So it's all relative!