You really went to LENGTHS (haha, geddit? I made a pun) to shoot that. I've been to New Mexico before, and there's some pretty high altitude places. I camped at the 10,000 foot level at one place in the Sierra Madre. Our base camp was about quarter of a mile away from the main campfire (this was back when I was in boy scouts), and when I had to run from my campsite just to pick up a flashlight, because it was getting dark... I was totally winded out just after that quarter of a mile run.
But getting back on topic here, your hair is awesome.