When I was a kid, we went camping almost every weekend, and quite often we went hiking.
One of the coolest things to hike to were fire lookout towers. Not only could you climb them, they had a great view, and sometimes the Ranger would be there and you could go up into the tower for a while.
Despite that, those towers always scared the bejeebers out of me. They swayed in the wind and with every footstep your took. How could they be safe?
This isn’t one of those towers. This is probably an aboriginal structure in Taiwan but I ran across this picture on flickr and it brought back all those memories.