I can look out, but if I look straight down, I get disoriented, and I feel a strong urge to jump. I experience vertigo when I look straight down from an altitude. Sometimes, you are so comfortable on a stand that you forget where you are and simply step off into space. You can fall asleep or get distracted and fall out. If you are climbing a ladder, your boot sole can slip on a dewy or icy rung. Our objective is to minimize the chances of falling and mitigate the possibility of injury when falling is inevitable.įalling from elevated stands is the most common type of hunting injury and the leading cause of fatality among hunters. There are a million ways to succumb to gravity, but landing safely is an art. It is a fact of the outdoor life that the natural configuration for the human body is to lie flat on the ground. If you hunt, fish, or hike, sooner or later you are going to fall.
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