500"? Better than 41'? Taller than my building.
I want to live where the climate fits my clothes. I imagine getting to the top of the snow. Dig a hole down and at an angle to the liquor store below. Tie a rope near the top of the hole so I can pull myself up. Every time I want to get a tasty, tasty, chocolate iced, Mrs. Freshley's bun, I can bungee cord a baking sheet to my ass and slide down to the liquor store. An indoor ski slope. As long as it doesn't collapse and kill someone, and I have to dig another tunnel around the dead person, I can't see anything wrong with this.