A Laughing Matter
Thanks to Carolyn Connolly for the picture Adventure Ridge Ropes Course on Vail Mountain can be challenging to the body, mind and nerves, so I found it amusing that I was laughing at myself, especially at that height. I had maneuvered the swinging logs, the crisscross wooden planks and the sliding steps. I had carefully rappelled from the first level safely to the ground. Scaling the steps to the second platform while trying to keep my fears in check I looked ahead to see how I should problem solve my way across the next set of challenges. I made it through the swinging bridge and the tightrope with the safety harness intact, but the final element looked daunting. There were short ropes between PVC towers perpendicular to the wire crossing. Hmmm... What should I do with this one? Advice from the attendant was requested and I was instructed to hug the PVC pipe as I crossed the thin wire. It was comforting to grab the pipe, but it was too far to reac...