Zip Lining!

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         Friday, the entire school took a field trip to a ropes course and zip lining park. We left early, right after morning assembly. The school has two minibuses, but they only fit thirty or so people all together, so they also hired a huge tourbus type thing. It was wayyyy more comfortable than the mini bus! 

        We split into three groups to get ready and watch the safety video. I've been zip lining before--but never done a ropes course--and it's always been structured, where you go along a certain path in a group with an instructor. Here was very different. Once we completed the training bit--where we learned to put the zip line rig on, and attach ourselves to the course--we were free to wander and do as we liked. 

        You start by hooking yourself in at the beginning, and then until you finish a course, you can't get out of it. There were different levels of difficulty, so right away Ananda and I broke off from our group to follow Heiden and the Reiseliv guys who wanted to do one of the most difficult courses. We figured out the rigging pretty quickly, and neither of us have a fear of heights, so it was perfect! 

     

        When we finished our first course, an instructor told us about another where you have to take a 35 foot leap off at the end. Obviously that sounded amazing, so we did it! The course had all sorts of different obstacles. There were hanging nets, logs to walk across, platforms that you needed to swing on a rope to get through, a tightrope, and of course the free-fall. It was fantastic! It's funny, you're so connected to the course that you almost forget you're 40 feet up. 

        For lunch, we grilled out sausages and hotdogs, and then we went right back into it. Ananda and I decided to do the hardest course, which we were told by the Friluft boys was extremely strenuous. It wasn't very long, but it required a lot of strength, and the obstacles were by far the hardest that we'd come across. There was a point where you had the option to take a ladder down rather than finish the course, and the four people ahead of us--and Ananda--all decided they were done. I was pretty determined, so I led the rest of our group through to the end of the course. We had to move through a series of separate nets, each higher than the last, which was a killer, but I was glad to have done it. 

        Our last adventure was a mild course that ended in a huge zip line across the lake. What a view! The weather was perfect, and everybody had a really great time. (I couldn't take my phone up with me, so I didn't get many pictures.) I'm so glad that we were able to go, and I hope we take more day trips like this as a school!





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  1. Sonja MerzNovember 10, 2020 at 9:52 AM

    Looks so fun! Do the Reiseliv guys speak to you in Norwegian on days like this?

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  2. KevinNovember 10, 2020 at 12:56 PM

    I'm so proud of my daughter!

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  3. JoyceNovember 11, 2020 at 11:44 AM

    You are such a Daredevil! Good for you!!!! Still saying....Amazing Race with your mom or dad

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