Once one reaches a certain height, it becomes a fact that traveling any higher will undoubtedly incur no greater damage to one’s person were one to plummet to the terrestrial surface far below. So what difference does it make? I’d much rather fall from 10,000 feet and have a fun adrenaline rush on the way down than fall 400 feet with the same result but less time to enjoy the trip.

And I remember being up with my dad in the cage of a self-propelled boom lift machine… it was a 60 foot boom – we had very tall trees. That was really scary… being suspended 60 feet up in the air in a little cage, and when dad would move the whole machine to reposition while we were still in the air, a three inch depression in the ground would cause us in the cage to sway 10 feet, or so it felt. I was sure it was going to overbalance and we would go all the way over. I’ve never been so freaked out by heights before. And I’ve climbed some pretty tall trees and been on some really high amusement park rides. (Though there was the orbiting Sky Cabin at Knotts Berry Farm that freaked me out when I was a kid, but I went on it again when I was older [somewhat recently] and it was no problem.)

*resists the urge to alliterate*

Why should thirty foot drops bother you, but 100 foot drops not? Seems to me the higher you are, the more certainty of a… less than pleasant landing. Ahem.

Re: heights. Above 80 or 100 feet above the ground height seems to lose its scare power. It’s those thirty-foot drops that make me tremble.