Yeah it's pretty wild!
My dad used to say "if your friends jumped off a cliff, would you too?"... and I found out, yes, I would:
It's about 2 hours away, and gets busier every year, everybody leaves their garbage just lying around
First time I went there, arrived after dark and some friends take me to the edge of the cliff. Pitch black night, I had no idea what was in front of me. That had to be the best way to experience it, completely blind
Behind the camera view is a taller cliff. Maybe 4-5X the height, it's hard to judge. Turns out there's a deep instinct that prevents people from jumping off something that high. It took me about 20 minutes to actually jump off it. I would determine to jump, then at the last second my body would just hault "nope, not gonna let you do this"
Across the lake to the right of the camera view is a mountain peak, a cliff with loads of jagged rocks at the bottom. I cut my finger just crawling across the rocks. We looked up at the cliff and thought "this is a bad idea, but lets climb that cliff"... Near the top the only way to get up was using a wobbly foothold, that's when I looked down and realized it would take one small misstep to turn any one of us into ground beef. But it was really nice up there, we could see clear over the plains and there were these crazy birds up there that would try to scare us off by flying directly at our faces.
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