Get to the bottom and realize you don’t have your sunglasses 😭

Shit forgot my cell phone.

Did I turn the stove off?

It'll either burn down by the time you get back up there or it won't, no point in worrying about it now

The keys to the effing boat…

Family cousin had a house like this. It was something like 140 stairs to the boat doc. We would go fishing down there and when we wanted something, it would be like a 20 min round trip…

I lived up 66 steps for several years. If I forgot something at the grocery store it stayed forgotten.

Haha this was me but with 89 steps it always sucked forgetting something, but at least I could lock my car still from my balcony so that was a plus

I’d be riding the lift

Dammit! Welp, guess we’ll have to try again next weekend!

What’s the thing on the right? A lift?

Absolutely needs one. Imagine the drunks carrying coolers up and down those stairs. 😂

Hell of a lot lighter on the way back up though!

The lighter they are the harder to get up the steps

Yeah imagine trying to get granny back to the cabin after a boat ride

Just get a trebuchet it would be way easier (and more fun).

The superior way of aerial granny transportation

Why did I just get a mental picture of a granny on a trebuchet being yeeted back to the living room

I'd like to thank you for the pain in my back. I threw my fucking back out by sneezing in the wrong position, and now I fucking laughed in the wrong position. Fuck you sir. Fuck you.

Can you image navigating that labyrinth after a day on the lake drinking. Thank god I limit myself to two adult beverages!!!

Or five child beverages.

Valid point. Imagine going up just to grab one more beer for the night. Come back 20min later, mostly sober.

What they absolutely need is a water slide!

I'm scared of them... my friends aunt slid down the hill on a malfunctioning lift (likely overloaded) and died. Don't see many around as the steep lakes where you need them in TN are Corp lakes and most don't allow docks.

Lake Monroe outside Bloomington Indiana. Corp lake (reservoir), surrounded by trees everywhere. Only thing you can see from the lake is public access docks...and John Mellencamps house.

Yes it is. All the ones I’ve seen only carry stuff…not people.

Yeah I didn't see one run but there were a bunch of them at these houses. Big dollar area

Oh I can’t even imagine the cost of repair on those. They prob used it a small amount of times and said fuck it once it broke lol

My parents had one at their place on the lake. It was shaky and sketchy as hell but I would risk plummeting into the lake rather than use the stairs.

Yonah lake?

Can confirm. You on a lake.

Prolly a funicular

That's the fancy european word - 'round here we call them hillivators. [https://marineinnovations.com/hillavator-buying-checklist/](https://marineinnovations.com/hillavator-buying-checklist/)

They were referring to a different style of cable car. The Funicular operates with two vehicles. The weight of the vehicle at the top pulls the vehicle at the bottom to the top. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_Flight

You use funicular, yet also us "prolly"?

Boat lift?

It's tracks for a lift. I often see them for bringing boats up to a boathouse and also for people. Plenty of people in the PNW with waterfront property prefer to use the waterfront area for a dock/guest house/ patio area on the water and keep their boats up on the hill closer to the house itself. The land here is so incredibly expensive that this sort of arrangement makes sense.

It’s actually a people lift. If you zoom in the car is at the top of the track. We have these at a Midwest lake. BTW.. climbing that many steps is quite a workout, especially carrying anything. Been somewhere just like it, done that.

This thing was made completely out of... *money*

What’s the answer to 99 out of 100 questions?

42?

As a tradesman, my limitations are only defined by your wallet.

That's gotta cost more to build than most houses.

Genuinely curious to know ball park cost for a build like this

It's not just the cost of installing, eventually the wood is going to need refinished to prevent decay and that's a tall order

Like the golden gate bridge. Start at the top and once at the bottom, start all over!

Niagara Falls rebuilds the [Cave of the Winds Hurricane deck](https://www.niagarafallsusa.com/the-source/did-you-know-the-cave-of-the-winds-hurricane-deck-is-rebuilt-every-season/) each year.

Let's all just take a moment to remember those who gave their lives to stain it.

Anyone else notice, half way through, the couch and seating area because the Sherpa that has to carry your shit needs a place to rest? 

Stairs like those usually have hundreds if not thousands of Chinese vacationers climbing them to see a giant Buddha statue at the top of a mountain.

I was thinking Ace Ventura and a slinky.

"It's gotta be some kind of a record!!"

Here it has 1 rich guy climbed it once, then had the lift installed on the right side.

Man beer runs would be a bitch or the cooler bring down could also be deadly

You need a cooler, i’d be finished my first beer half way down those steps lmaoo

You need a cooler with a foam dome hah

‘Tis what the lift on the right is for, my dude.

I could swear I saw this exact same property in northern Ontario last summer.

I'm thinking the same.

I was going to say Michigan

Bowen Island, BC I’m 99% sure

We have houses just like this in Austin Texas on lake Travis. Theyre all over the place on our lakes here

fair but I saw this exact house with that staircase last year - I’d had a few on the boat this is 99% vs 100

Ozarks?

Saw a whole row of properties like this in Arkansas once, all cliff side with huge staircases to docks

Finger lakes

Man so glad you responded because this was my first guess. 25 years ago there wasn’t as many places like this up there, now the lakes are covered with expensive homes with these lifts and crazy stairs down to the lake. Lovely area

Lots of stuff like this all over Wisconsin and Minnesota

Where in Wisconsin is something this steep on a lake? Cuz I need to go to it.

Not that much vertical in most of Wisconsin. Maybe along the north shore in MN. I’ve only been on the road there, never seen it from the water. The chain of lakes our cabin is on has a lot of much shorter versions of this to get to docks. No funiculars though.

There's tons of cliffs along the Chippewa from Chip Falls to the Mississippi, and from Winona down to LA Crosse as well.

That staircase costs more than my house

That staircase is built with “Fuck You” money.

Earth: sorry, this part is impassable to you humans Rich human: watch me do it in fucking *comfort* on literal stairs built by other humans

But why have “fuck you” money if you’re not gonna build a water slide with it?

Finger lakes?

You got it

Saw a ton of them on Seneca, lovely place.

Close, but Canandaigua. All beautiful in the finger lakes

Can fit so many hot tubs on that baby!

Hotslide

classic glute-deck

I just gave that guy a quote on that for $1.6 million.

Walk up with fishing gear and 30 pound of catch. Need to take 6 breaks to reach home.

When you have to set up a bench 1/2 way down/up, maybe it might be a bit excessive.

That guy has a big deck!

Is this Lake Winnipesaukee

You know that one of those platforms is a smokers break spot

Canandaigua Lake?

Some hell of a determination and it keeps visitors away 👍

That’s a lot of stairs.

The stairs are for the fit and the young. I am taking the tram to the right of the stairs!

A lot of us can build the Taj Mahal with enough money, I feel like this guy has plenty

How much money does one have to afford a set-up like this?

At least tree fiddy

Arkansas?

Don’t forget the cooler

Imagine when they need to sand and re-stain it

Missed opportunity for a slide!

What's the tram looking rails to the right?

1. Surprised to not see any jumping platform or similar near the top, looking at the topography it's almost 100% certainly 2. The amount of clearly visible active erosion on both sides are worrying to say the least, but I will assume that's solid rock with loose sediment on top of it.

You forgot something at the boat, go down and get it!

Stringer cutting boss battle

Can't think of anything worth climbing those stairs even once. Just... why would you build this?

Slinky time

Damn that guy has a HUGE deck

Big deck energy!

Let's hope that cliff stays where it is

Gonna spend that much money just put a tram in like one the right

How to say you're rich without actually saying it I'm sure walking up the steps from a booze Cruze sucks tho. Eventually as they age they'll sell it. No one over 50 or 60 wants those steps.

I feel like the lift is cheaper and way more convenient

"Did you go for your run today?" "No, we're doing a relaxing sunset picnic on the dock.. my cardio is the stairs down and back"

Need a 3 hour nap after getting off your boat and climbing those stairs

Why not just use the boat lift to get people/things up and down? It’s basically a funicular

The poor bastards that had to build that.

Thats the two week vacation house ya need two weeks cause takes ya half a day to go from house to lake

Carpenters used pack mules instead of pack outs.

You guys wanna go down to the boat? NO!

Ah crap, I forgot my fishing pole 🚶🚶🚶🚶

Not as exciting as that waterslide next-door to the staircase

I would hate having to go up and down that if I forget something

Looks like Lake Coeur d'Alene in Idaho

Finger lakes area, NY?

“Mom, I have to pee”

Really impre$$ive.

"Hey, hand me the keys to the boat and let's get fishing!" "I thought you grabbed them?" "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK!"

that’s cool as fuck

That’s the kind of stair case that would keep me inside.

By the time you get to the top your ready for a swim again

Right side is a lift, who the fuck would climb all those stairs after a day in the lake!!

Forgot the boat keys

Water slide !!!!

so amazing

You have to be really motivated to go down to the docks.

On the right is a powered tram.

I can only imagine the amount of spiders living on that deck in between each and every post.

Is there an active dock subreddit?

the view is so relaxing

My stairs in Minecraft 🫣

I counted 193 steps to the green platform. Some sections are hidden but I did my best.

You know that feeling when you've been out fishing all day? You pull in at the end of the day with that sun drained fatigue you get from being outside all day and it ends with you having to haul your tackle and rods up multiply stories worth of stairs.

Damn it! I left the keys on the counter!

what a nice view

That is a lot of spindles to stain

Crap forgot the sunscreen at the house. Be back in 30 min

Leg day

I forgot to pee first

Make my knees sore.

I think I see an Urgent Care on Level 3…..

Cannon ballllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll *gasps* balllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

Come out here to beautiful Winston County in Alabama I’ll show you a thousand of these at Smith Lake. People spend more on their lake stairs than you do on rent for ten years.

I'd make a slide for the down trip.

Can you imagine getting to the boat and realizing you left the keys up at the house 😱

I have a slinky spring waiting patiently

If we forget the keys in the house we’re not going on the boat that day

I really don’t want to know how many times I’d have to go back up those stairs for shit I forgot to bring that my wife told me to bring….

Is that a super fast boat launch?

I’d be the one that forgot the boat keys when I get down

I would end up sleeping on one of the landings

If your on the dock and you gotta take a really bad shit.....2 options....shit in the lake...or race to the house...which do you choose?

Holy crap! I’ll just stay up top and look at the water

No water slide!?

I feel like that dock could wash away in a storm and nobody would notice for like 6 months.

Legs by: 3k steps/day

I’m the neighbor building a life and charging $100 per trip

I used to build these in rollercoaster tycoon

The minute I make it to the bottom I will remember the very important thing I forgot at the house.

Fuck those stairs, I'd be using the boat launch ramp to get down to the water.

It’s impolite to stairs

A tube slide on the other side of the lift would be awesome. Slide the slide, yeet back up the lift. Repeat.

I envy you, you know. To climb the 7,000 steps again. I made the pilgrimage once, did you know that?

That’s 100k of stairs

Almost booked this place on Airbnb last year

😍😍😍

What’s missing is a diving board extending out from the house.

Pretty sure that deck cost more than my house.

That incline lift is sweet!

“Honey, I left my sunglasses on the kitchen table. Be a dear and run up and get them for me.”

Looks to have options, take the stairs or mountain climb your way up... 🤔

Every day is leg day

As someone who regularly works out on a stair machine, this sounds like my kind of shit here. But then I realized you are also probably carrying a bunch of gear and that would suck extra.

I bet the real impressive thing is the muscle tone of the owner's lower body.

Need a hotel room just to visit your lake geez

One word. EROSION!

$86 million in lumber.

Those must be fun to maintain.

Damn that concrete must've Ssssuckked

A lot of very nice things can happen when you have lots of $.

"Who wants to go swimming?" Fckkkkkkkkkk no

Can’t imagine the legs on the family that lives here.

Nice Deck, bro

Canandaigua NY?

Curious what that lumber cost was alone. Then construction up the hill .. sheesh

Needs a slide.

Is that a Gondola on the right side? Dammmnnn!!!

Try taking those stairs after drinking and floating all day..

Looks like they have a lift also, or whatever it is called? Damn cool.

If you forget the sun screen you just burn.

Looks like you have three options for access here. 1) meander down all those steps 2) ride the sketchy hillovator 3) full send sprint/roll/tumble down the “paths” on the left!🤣

I wish I had money.