I think it may be that the boy's dad was a paratrooper... At least if
he was the scoutmaster introduced earlier. In that case, he could be
making a joke about jumping out of a plane with a parachute at 15000
feet...

On Nov 13, 5:50 pm, wrote:
Sarah wrote:
One typo:

"The last 15,000 feet coming down are the hardest," said the boy's
father, laughing...."

Maybe 15 feet? 1500 feet? Either would make more sense.15,000 feet is what it says in the original. Doesn't make much sense to
me either.

Johan Larson