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I rode this mountain tram when I went to Palm Springs. I thought for sure it would break and we would fall thousands of feet to the rocks below. I contemplated of just living at the top of the mountain rather than having to take the tram back down. Instead, I just consumed mass quantities of alcohol before making the descent. :)

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Puke on any hikers?
 

DiO'Bolic

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Puke on any hikers?
Nope, but I did look like this...

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And I didn’t bother to learn anything about the locale, and wore shorts and a T-shirt that day. It was 110 degrees F at the base of the mountain, and 30 degrees F at the top with 15 foot deep snow and paths cut out of the snow to walk. Thank god for the heated lodge and fully stocked bar. :)
 

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Climbing up the pole to get to it would be what would keep me from doing that. The actual zipline looks like a lot of fun!

I get in a panic with any mountain roads that don't have some sort of barrier on the shoulder. It could be as simple as a rock but it's
just enough to give me the illusion of thinking I couldn't go over the edge. My SO took me on a car trip on a back road up from the base of Canyonlands to Dead Horse Point, UT (IIRC) that had me nearly in tears because most of it had no barriers on the shoulder and the drop off was to my right. I had to keep my eyes closed going through a lot of the Cascade Mountains traveling east on I-90 (Snoqualmie Pass area, etc.) for the same reason. You couldn't pay me enough to do that walk out over the Grand Canyon even though you're enclosed. I did mostly okay at the South Rim, though, because of the railings and being on solid ground. One lookout did have my knees shaking and I had to step back from the railing. :wink2:
 

DiO'Bolic

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Climbing up the pole to get to it would be what would keep me from doing that. The actual zipline looks like a lot of fun!

I get in a panic with any mountain roads that don't have some sort of barrier on the shoulder. It could be as simple as a rock but it's
just enough to give me the illusion of thinking I couldn't go over the edge. My SO took me on a car trip on a back road up from the base of Canyonlands to Dead Horse Point, UT (IIRC) that had me nearly in tears because most of it had no barriers on the shoulder and the drop off was to my right. I had to keep my eyes closed going through a lot of the Cascade Mountains traveling east on I-90 (Snoqualmie Pass area, etc.) for the same reason. You couldn't pay me enough to do that walk out over the Grand Canyon even though you're enclosed. I did mostly okay at the South Rim, though, because of the railings and being on solid ground. One lookout did have my knees shaking and I had to step back from the railing. :wink2:
LOL. I have a zipline set up in my property behind the house for the kids, but it's only about 15 feet off the ground. Still high enough though to properly scare the bejeezus out of some of them. :)

At 17, I drove off a road that had no barriers in the coal country near Centralia, PA. A car took a turn wide rounding a sharp curve and I swerved out with the wheels of my ’60 Corvair catching the gravel... and the force took my car over the embankment. It rolled several times down the sharp hill and came to rest on its roof, in a stream. It was night and I couldn’t see anything but knew water was coming in the car. Had to break through the back windshield with my feet to crawl out. There was just enough room to crawl out as the roof was crushed. I then made my way crawling back up the hill in the dark. When the police showed up the officer looked down with his flashlight and asked if the driver was dead. I said... “Nope, here I am.” :)
 

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Climbing up the pole to get to it would be what would keep me from doing that. The actual zipline looks like a lot of fun!

I get in a panic with any mountain roads that don't have some sort of barrier on the shoulder. It could be as simple as a rock but it's
just enough to give me the illusion of thinking I couldn't go over the edge. My SO took me on a car trip on a back road up from the base of Canyonlands to Dead Horse Point, UT (IIRC) that had me nearly in tears because most of it had no barriers on the shoulder and the drop off was to my right. I had to keep my eyes closed going through a lot of the Cascade Mountains traveling east on I-90 (Snoqualmie Pass area, etc.) for the same reason. You couldn't pay me enough to do that walk out over the Grand Canyon even though you're enclosed. I did mostly okay at the South Rim, though, because of the railings and being on solid ground. One lookout did have my knees shaking and I had to step back from the railing. :wink2:

This is me, too. Our favorite camping spot up in the Bighorns is like that. An only wide enough for one vehicle road, in 4x4 because it is rocky and straight up, so you cannot see if someone is coming back down. And a drop off to the side.

I'm usually ok going up, because the drop off is on the driver's side. (Other than holding my breath and praying we don't meet someone trying to come down.) But coming back out, I hold my breath, pray we don't meet anyone coming up, and really pray we don't go off that edge.

It isn't even a quarter mile stretch of road, but I hate it. If the meadow and creek and the view at the end wasn't totally worth it, I wouldn't care if I ever was on that road again.
 

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LOL. I have a zipline set up in my property behind the house for the kids, but it's only about 15 feet off the ground. Still high enough though to properly scare the bejeezus out of some of them. :)

At 17, I drove off a road that had no barriers in the coal country near Centralia, PA. A car took a turn wide rounding a sharp curve and I swerved out with the wheels of my ’60 Corvair catching the gravel... and the force took my car over the embankment. It rolled several times down the sharp hill and came to rest on its roof, in a stream. It was night and I couldn’t see anything but knew water was coming in the car. Had to break through the back windshield with my feet to crawl out. There was just enough room to crawl out as the roof was crushed. I then made my way crawling back up the hill in the dark. When the police showed up the officer looked down with his flashlight and asked if the driver was dead. I said... “Nope, here I am.” :)
Oh, man, if that doesn't convince you it just wasn't your time to die, I don't know what would. Your guardian angel was watching out for you that day!
 

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This is me, too. Our favorite camping spot up in the Bighorns is like that. An only wide enough for one vehicle road, in 4x4 because it is rocky and straight up, so you cannot see if someone is coming back down. And a drop off to the side.

I'm usually ok going up, because the drop off is on the driver's side. (Other than holding my breath and praying we don't meet someone trying to come down.) But coming back out, I hold my breath, pray we don't meet anyone coming up, and really pray we don't go off that edge.

It isn't even a quarter mile stretch of road, but I hate it. If the meadow and creek and the view at the end wasn't totally worth it, I wouldn't care if I ever was on that road again.
I don't think I could ever take that trip in Canyonlands again even though it was pretty spectacular at the top. It was a 4x4 road, too, and there was one spot where we did meet a car coming down but luckily at a spot where we could both make room to pass. Thinking about it, it probably would have been worse going down because I think you get more of the sensation of speed and going out of control. This picture doesn't give you a good perspective of just how high up we were but you can see the road we'd traveled getting to where we were.

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I don't think I could ever take that trip in Canyonlands again even though it was pretty spectacular at the top. It was a 4x4 road, too, and there was one spot where we did meet a car coming down but luckily at a spot where we could both make room to pass. Thinking about it, it probably would have been worse going down because I think you get more of the sensation of speed and going out of control. This picture doesn't give you a good perspective of just how high up we were but you can see the road we'd traveled getting to where we were.

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Beautiful!
 

skimom2

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This is me, too. Our favorite camping spot up in the Bighorns is like that. An only wide enough for one vehicle road, in 4x4 because it is rocky and straight up, so you cannot see if someone is coming back down. And a drop off to the side.

I'm usually ok going up, because the drop off is on the driver's side. (Other than holding my breath and praying we don't meet someone trying to come down.) But coming back out, I hold my breath, pray we don't meet anyone coming up, and really pray we don't go off that edge.

It isn't even a quarter mile stretch of road, but I hate it. If the meadow and creek and the view at the end wasn't totally worth it, I wouldn't care if I ever was on that road again.
My husband loves those sorts of roads, and the ones where at the top you can't see what's coming up at you. Those rollercoaster hill roads aren't for me--I close my eyes and warn him that if he takes us up that high and has an accident, he's going to die because I can't drive on those roads--lol.
 

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Bridges don't bother me. One of my favorite places is Hot Springs State Park in Thermopolis, WY, and one of my favorite spots there is the swinging bridge :) I love to get it going--it really swings back and forth! The one when I was a kid (they've sured it up a bit) 348s.jpg Unknown.jpeg 11-HotSpBridgeSign.JPG would sway even more. LOVE it.
 

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Bridges don't bother me. One of my favorite places is Hot Springs State Park in Thermopolis, WY, and one of my favorite spots there is the swinging bridge :) I love to get it going--it really swings back and forth! The one when I was a kid (they've sured it up a bit) View attachment 14036 View attachment 14037 View attachment 14038 would sway even more. LOVE it.
I've been there! I can't remember for sure if we ever went across though. So probably not. ;-D I think I would remember it if we had, but who knows, with my memory.
 

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Bridges don't bother me. One of my favorite places is Hot Springs State Park in Thermopolis, WY, and one of my favorite spots there is the swinging bridge :) I love to get it going--it really swings back and forth! The one when I was a kid (they've sured it up a bit) View attachment 14036 View attachment 14037 View attachment 14038 would sway even more. LOVE it.

I'm okay with that. Not Grandma so much. As a Boy Scout, on a hike, I remember a crossing over the Mackinaw River. It was two cables - one on top to hang on to, another one lower to inch across on. It's probably not there nowadays. I can't imagine the liability issues. If one of us kids had lost his grip, it was sure serious injury, possibly death.

DiO, that was a hugely dramatic story. Memory for a lifetime. Wow.