The Jump: Stratosphere, Las Vegas

When my husband's family invited us out to visit this spring we decided to try an adventure ride in LasVegas. SkyJump. Basically, they hook you up to a cable and drop you 855 feet to a platform just above the entrance.

Yes. I said 855 feet. From the best of my knowledge/memory of the elevator ride on the way up, it is 108 floors. Yes. I jumped off a building that was 108 floors.

What would possess a person to do such a thing? My husband's father Pat. He wanted to do it, he wanted to do it so much. He called several times before the visit and asked me if I'd do it. Sure, I'll do it. When we arrived he said, "I don't think I'm going to do that....."

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Randy's brother was still on board. So we prepared.

The first thing you need to know is there is a wait. If you want to do this ride come and make a reservation. When we showed up we had to wait four hours. Pat changed his mind and decided to go, but when he was signing up he found out he had to wait four hours. This was a major disaster. He was thinking we could just get it over with, it was kind of stressful thinking, oh, in four hours I'm going to jump off that building.

We returned at 8pm. Our reservation was for 8:45. We signed a waiver. They asked some basic health questions and then in 20-30 minutes we suited up. They triple check all the equipment before you even get in the elevator. They travel with you all the way up to the elevator, and they they check you again when you get into the room where the plank is.

The room with the walkway leading outside is really secure. Only one jumper is allowed in at time and all the employees are harnessed to prevent them from falling out of the building. The walkway has a sliding glass door and it remains closed while they are preparing the jumpers.



Of course we purchased the video, which they strap a Go-Pro to your arm, so the entire experience is captured.





Here is where we went and the youtube video:

http://youtu.be/DsQ37HeAX6A
http://www.stratospherehotel.com/?utm_source=GGL&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=STR-StratosphereHotelcom&utm_content=Stratosphere-Hotel-Casino&utm_term=stratosphere-tower-hotel-and-casino&mkwid=sdGlDWEFD_dc&pcrid=33020923572&pkw=stratosphere%20tower%20hotel%20and%20casino&pmt=b&gclid=CJCZ6IOBsb0CFWZo7Aod718AGg