I've done a couple high ropes courses before, and loved it. However, this was much much higher then anything I've ever seen before! Thankfully, we started out quite a bit lower to the ground. There are six different courses, the first two are to basically get you to understand how to do the different obstacles at a much lower height, and then it just keeps building up and getting harder which each level.
We ended up skipping the first two courses, as they were full of elementary-aged kids who were a bit slow going, and started with the third one instead. It gave us just enough of a taste to get the blood rushing, and our bodies moving. After flying back to the ground on a zip line or two, (and then running around the forest like lost, mad women, trying to find the start of the fourth course), we started our climb back up into the trees to tackle the next challenges. The four course seemed to take us forever. We crossed many 'monkey bridges' of just a single wire for your feet and one above your hands for your head, logs that swung and spun under your feet, loops of rope that twisted, swung and did all but what you wanted them to do, we clung to ropes that swung us across to a giant spider web, and even slid between trees on a snowboard!
After we successfully conquered the fourth course, it was time to take a well deserved muffin/biscuit(cookie!) break and let our arms stop shaking. We decided to temporally bypass the fifth course, and tackle the sixth while we still had energy, as the sixth is final, and supposedly hardest one.
Uffda, they weren't lying! Even just from the rope ladder up to the first platform, the sixth course was definitely challenging. So challenging that when Kasey slipped and fell(her harness caught her, no worries!) off of some hanging logs, her body shut down and she blacked out. After she was safely back on the ground, and feeling better, she was deemed camera woman and in charge of pictures. Katelyn and I continued on, climbing wire bridges at impossible inclines until we were almost at the tops of the trees. This is the point where looking down is not a good idea. We crossed more swinging ropes, cross vertical rope nets, climbing, upside down, through hanging barrels, and conquered so many more obstacles, that some how became so much more difficult at 20 meters(or 66 feet) above the ground, strung up on towering, swaying pine trees. We ended with a 20 meters high, 90 meters long flying fox(or zip line) back to the ground. Could one have more fun?!
Exhausted, but now exhilarated by our success, Katelyn and I went back and quickly completed the fifth course, a much less daunting task after finishing the sixth one. We finished by pretty much running through the first course, and attempted to fly through the second course too, but got stuck behind a handful of younger boys. However, we were still the first two done, and two of only a handful of other people who managed to get through all six courses! Yea, we rock.
More pictures are to come!
"Impossible is just a big word throw around by small men who find it easier to love in the world they've been given, rather than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion."
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