After going up Pike's Peak several years back, two days after 4 women from Wichita (I'm in Wichita) drove OFF Pike's Peak, I would be glad to be in the flatlands.
It was so damn scary going up (I hid in the floorboard) and I would peak up and look out every now and then, but I WAS THANKING GOD there was a cloud enveloping the mountain, so you couldn't see over the edge into eternity. When we came down it started raining and water was pouring down the road with us. I will never go to the mountains again for vacation, my heart just can't take it. LOL I'd rather vacation in Kansas, maybe go gamble in KC or something. Whew!!! There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home, toto
Living out there cured my acrophobia. Every time I went into the mountains I would go a little further ... and a little further. Going above timberline is the big step.