[travel] Still alive

[mattbell]

So it turns out that the extreme sports were even more extreme than I thought.

The canyoning included a huge number of very high jumps (up to 40ft) and fast natural rock slides, as well as odd things like a place where you had to jump over some water onto an opposing near-vertical rock face and then (without stopping) slide down into the water. It reminded me of parkour videos.

The 400-ft bungee jump was over a lake, so they could afford to do jumps in which we came extremely close to the water before rebounding. A couple of people even ended up dunking a bit before rebounding. (I have a video I'll post)

I went out of the gondola backwards and did an immediate backflip. This made the experience far more intense than my last jump at age 18. I did return to the site of that jump and looked at its now-defunct cable car. The memories of that time in my life resurfaced with an intensity stronger than other self-intersections of my past trip and I felt a connection to a past self that was undergoing a dramatic transformation.

Since I'm still alive, I figured I should do something fun tomorrow, like tandem hang gliding. The terrain here is incredibly beautiful -- it's almost in the same league with places like Yosemite. It should make for some excellent viewing.

Comments

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Awesome!