It’s high time

Photo: Brian Willette

In our flat-as-a-pancake city, it’s surprisingly easy to find elevation—whether you’re scraping the clouds in nosebleed seats, washing windows at the top of a skyscraper or sipping cocktails on a hotel rooftop. Of course, some people don’t want to just sit around and take in the view, so they jump out of a plane from 14,500 feet or scramble up seven-story climbing walls, feats that would make certain height-phobic folks shake in their well-grounded boots. For them, figuratively getting high (we think you know what we mean) might be the way to go, and there’s no shortage of ways to heighten that experience—even in the horizontal hamlet we call home.

	Soar subjects: Check out the sky-scraping stats on some of the city’s loftiest points.
	Might as well jump: A TOC staffer goes for the natural rush you can only get from leaping out of a plane.
	High chairs: We checked out nosebleed seats all around town.
	Peak performance: For these three nine-to-fivers, getting high at work is a job requirement.
	Eat, up: We hit the roof to find out which hotels have the best food with a view.
	High anxiety: A TOC staffer—who gets the heebie-jeebies just standing on a chair—attempts to bring his fears down to earth.
	Climbing the walls: Clamp on your carabiners and hit these local gyms for a sky-high workout.
	Joint ventures: When you’re already as high as the Hancock, these top-five movies, video games, munchies and more will help you enjoy the buzz. Not that we’ve ever done that. Ahem.
	A kindler, gentler bud: When it comes to pot smoking and the law, many can do the crime without doing the time.