Ski Trip Lesson: Chair lifts are terrifying.

Chair lifts are terrifying. The little lift going up to the kid's area had been a gentle slope and close to the ground. The quad up to the main green area must have been a good thirty feet above the ground. With no seatbelts. The chair bounced as it traveled along that thin piece of cable-the only thing keeping me from plummeting to my death. This defied every law of thrill ride safety I had ever encountered. I also made the mistake of looking back, a move that made thirty feet above the ground feel more like several thousand feet above the surface of the Earth. I barely breathed for most of the ride.