If you are really in a big hurry to get to the "Homeplace", you can jump and just grab tree branches on the way down to slow your ascent. Ya'll saw Rambo right?
If you are really in a big hurry to get to the "Homeplace", you can jump and just grab tree branches on the way down to slow your ascent. Ya'll saw Rambo right?
So ... has anybody ever heard stories of somebody maybe getting blown off the precipice? Or simply getting too close and taking a header? What about the edges of the rock breaking away? Will it hold a 225lb guy? It's one of those places I look forward to seeing, and I want somebody to take a picture of me looking all heroic as I gaze out, but I'm so NOT a heights guy.
Four places are gonna be a real gut-check for me on my thru-hike. Mcafee Knob, that fire tower they let you climb up, Dragon's tooth, and walkin' the knife edge. For me, it's gonna be a real butt-clencher, but I'm not one to let my fears get in the way of a great adventure and memory.
Better to dare mighty things, win glorious triumphs, than take rank with those who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
I've been to Mcafee's Knob and Dragon's Tooth. I would say the drop off is a couple of hundred feet. It looks far higher than it actually is. Still, would be a lethal fall I imagine.
Dragon's Tooth was very cool. Easy climb up the rockface but a little hairy coming down, at least for me.
I've attached a couple of photos. One is me on the knob and the other is of a couple of hikers sitting on the "tooth."
Pic of my buddy Hyway taken TODAY and sent via Facebook. I still can't get over these near real-time updates.
Fear ridges that are depicted as flat lines on a profile map.
I stood NEAR the edge but just didn't have the nerve to sit and dangle my legs over the edge. (The photos/videos of folks going up and coming down the cables at Half Dome in Yosemite have always made my palms sweat.)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Wow he's close! I did dangle my legs, but barely
no its not the fall that kills ya its the sudden stop at the bottom
Well these descriptions make the Knob sound very exciting, can't wait to see it for myself this Memorial Day weekend. I'll see if I can get my feet over the edge.