I see places around Chattanooga, Knoxville and even around my immediate area that have zip lines. Have thought about trying that out as well but I've screwed up my order of chaos. Should have been, climbing, zip lining, parasailing or hang gliding, then throwing myself out of an airplane. At least the order of adrenaline peaks would slowly go up. I failed however and thru that out of the window. Only thing I can think to top what I did yesterday is to strap a rocket to my back and launch myself into space!
The place I went to was pretty much prior service Veterans so that was comforting in a way. The guy that was my Jumpmaster was on the Army Jump Team.
I will admit, sitting in the door at 14,000 feet with your feet hanging out like your sitting on the dock dipping your feet in the pond was INTENSE!!! Intense enough that when he finally launched us out the door my eyes said, "yeah, we're closing now". We barrel rolled a few times and then the drag chute slowed us and we got situated, arms out, legs curled up and body arched. Then I realized I was being force fed oxygen!!! Found it a little hard to breathe, some say anxiety is the cause, it's possible. I wasn't super climber my first 4-5 days at heights! Mental conditioning! Once we were leveled out and I was checking out the Earth like a rocket it wasn't that bad. Still was working on my breathing and then he popped the chute, air brakes! After that floating down was wicked cool!! He let me take control of the helm for a minute or two and we did a hard right turn and our bodies got horizontal!! That was some freaky stuff right there for the first time but also very cool!!
Heck, I was telling the instructor the plane ride up was the worst! The pilot decided to give us a taste of zero gravity, jumping out wasn't as bad as that was!! LOL!! The ole roller coaster ride and the first big hill ring any bells?? Next flight out I'm acquiring a full face helmet of my own to block the wind. Like I said, was probably me as some others have said they didn't have an issue but also others have had the same problem as I did. Figure the full face helmet will block the rushing wind and I can breathe without being uncomfortable and enjoy it more!