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Posted on 4/25/19 at 9:11 pm to BoarEd
Posted on 4/25/19 at 9:11 pm to BoarEd
I was just reading about Stairway to Heaven a few weeks ago and thought it sounded awesome. It looks like you went down the blocked way so did you have to sneak past the guard house to get on the trail?
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Posted on 4/25/19 at 9:56 pm to TheCheshireHog
That isn't a picture of our hike. We went out there as a squad with frickin backpacks on before dawn. We "got permission" to go. 
Man, that's been a long time ago now. I wish I had even known we were going. This was before everyone had cellphones and cameras on them at all times.
ETA: The sense of being on the edge of the world is unparalleled up there. Also, you wouldn't want to be up there if it came a good rain, and they get a lot of those out there.
Man, that's been a long time ago now. I wish I had even known we were going. This was before everyone had cellphones and cameras on them at all times.
ETA: The sense of being on the edge of the world is unparalleled up there. Also, you wouldn't want to be up there if it came a good rain, and they get a lot of those out there.
This post was edited on 4/25/19 at 10:01 pm
Posted on 4/25/19 at 10:06 pm to BoarEd
YOUR EITHER FRICKING NUTZZZ BALLZZZ, OR EXTREMELY BRAVE, OR A MIXTURE OF BOTH. Damn man, no way in holy heaven, or hell would I do that. I start gasping for air looking at that pic.
Posted on 4/25/19 at 10:06 pm to BoarEd
frick that. Hell no.
Posted on 4/25/19 at 10:13 pm to Muleriderhog
We didn't have any choice in the matter.
We did all kinds of stupid shite like that. They would "teach us" to do stupid shite that wasn't even in our job description.
ETA: The best part about that place though is that if you know where to go you can find camping spots 4 or 5 thousand feet above sea level in nice tree stands overlooking huge swaths of beach way down below. Really nice camping out there.
We did all kinds of stupid shite like that. They would "teach us" to do stupid shite that wasn't even in our job description.
ETA: The best part about that place though is that if you know where to go you can find camping spots 4 or 5 thousand feet above sea level in nice tree stands overlooking huge swaths of beach way down below. Really nice camping out there.
This post was edited on 4/25/19 at 10:16 pm
Posted on 4/26/19 at 3:09 am to BoarEd
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There's several people that die out there along the Buffalo each year. Someone was telling me just yesterday that some family went out to the Grand Canyon and someone fell off and died. It seems to me a lot of times this happens because people get close to the edge and try and take pictures. Lesson to the wise, looking through a viewfinder on the edge of a cliff will cause vertigo. Perfectly sober people get up there and just fall off.
This x100.
The wife and I hiked to the Crag a couple of years ago. I kind of always thought people had to be stupid or acting stupid to fall off of that thing....that was before I got out there.
The day we went it was very windy, and you are so high up that when you look down and see the trees blowing in the wind it looks EXACTLY like the ground is swaying beneath you. For anyone that has ever had vertigo, you know exactly what I am talking about. Its like everything around you is spinning. I can easily see how people get vertigo and fall off these things.
One quick look down and I never got close to the edge again. No way. That's a looooong way down. Feel for that poor girl and her family. She was gorgeous.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 12:00 pm to CFB_Fanatic
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That's a looooong way down.
That it is. When I heard about the person falling off Whitaker's Point whoever it was told me "that's over 100 feet down!"
More like 300 feet. And even if you were to survive the initial fall it's highly unlikely you'd survive long enough to be airlifted out to a hospital. I imagine hauling someone out of there would take several hours.
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