It is a pretty durable pad for just thrashing on, and can handle some big drops. 20ft is basically the max I would go for with just this pad, as in your buddies should invest also. A highball sheet, plastic insert, might help, but mostly it is the lack of a large target to hit.

i don't know why people "thumbs down" your answer, angus. totally agree. 20 feet is MAX.

No. From 32 feet your speed of impact is over 45 mph, so no matter what you fall on, the deceleration is going to hurt, and you'll almost certainly break something. Set aside the fact that it is incredibly difficult to even hit something this small from that height (picture jumping from a 3-story building into a jacuzzi), and you're still talking about an incredibly serious undertaking. Most boulderers have more than one pad for anything above about 15 feet. For highballs in the 30+ foot range, you're going to need more like a dozen pads, but I'd still advise against it. A friend of mine fell from 30 feet on to a pad and burst a vertebra in her back. It took about 18 months before she could toprope again after that, and she can't boulder ever again. So think long and hard before you venture that high without a rope of some sort.

8 lbs 1oz.

4 inches unfolded, 8 folded. It's a burly pad and it'll take a big hit.

Padded shoulder AND waist straps. You could schlep this anywhere.yep dis dose

It is really about how high you are comfortable climbing with this pad. Or actually, about being able to land on it. It is plenty thick and the closed-cell foam top would be tough to bottom out from almost any legitimate problem. You could go bigger, but some of that is for the climber's mental comfort and not about this pad's limits.

This crash pad is a stripped down version of the Boss Hog pad (of which I am a proud owner). I've dropped onto it from around 20 feet and comfortably landed on it, but after that height - that pad starts looking a bit too small all on its own, and it may be safer to use multiple crash pads. This pad is constructed for higher falls - it may feel very stiff jumping on it, but you won't bottom out when you pop off your latest problem.

The Boss Hog has an automotive carpet top (landing) surface, that helps keep your shoes clean, and the closed cell foam sheet just underneath the top is unbroken over the whole landing surface, meaning the top layer of foam tacos at the hinge, while the second thicker layer of soft closed cell foam is split. The Stomp uses a Cordura-like top surface, and both layers of foam are split at the hinge. The unbroken sheet of foam on the top on the Boss Hog, along with the angled hinge both pads share, gives the Boss Hog the slight edge in preventing injuries and ankle-bites when landing on the crease.

The covering on the pad is the $70 difference