The Ropes Course By: Brody

The ropes course was one of the best activities at eco week. I was so excited while walking to the course. I looked up and saw a giant rock wall, a super tall wooden pole with metal poles sticking out, and two wooden poles you had to walk across.

We got are harness on and the fearless pikas”aka” my eco week group walked up to the rock wall/swing. The first two people climbed up the course, while four people behind held the rope. Everyone cheered them on, they got to the top and they jumped off. The next two people started and then the next people started and so on, “It felt like forever” seriously it was boring until it my turn of course. “I’m sure everyone else felt that way”. FINALY! It was my turn, I put a helmet on and hooked my harness on and I was ready. Lara and I started to climb. We eventually made it to the top. It was shaking at the top of the podium, the instructor hooked us in. He told me to move to the right onto a wooden board. “On a count of three” he said, one, two, and then three.I jumped off and right as I jumped, the first few seconds it was complete freefall. “And then it swug me up so high which was amazing but, it kind of hurt once it pulled you up”. I could feel the wind whispering into my ears as it blew past me “wishhh”. That was one of the best moments of my life “yes my life”.

Another part of the ropes course was the catwalk. The catwalk was fun but, I didn't have as much fun on it because I tried to speed run it “so that basically means that I tried to rush the obstacle”. The instructor was timing me and when I got down on the ground I asked him and he said “sixty seconds”. “I was surprised because that seemed very quick, I think?”.

“Dun dun dun”! And now, for the scariest part of the ropes course, the leap of faith! “I know it sounds weird but, it was the only part of the course that I was scared of”. “I know that you might think that they were all scary but I wasn't until I faced this”. From the ground I thought that it was going to be easy. So I started to climb up it until there was a problem. When I was like eight feet in the air, a metal bar fell off. I had to come back down and the instructor had to go up there and put it back on. Finally I could restart and so I was climbing but when I got to the top, it was a whole different world. I was struggling to actually stand up on the pole because it seemed like I was going to fall off and die. “ Well, that was kind of dark”. I somehow managed to stand up and I thought that was an achievement. I even was nervously talking to the instructor and she of course said that I would be fine. It sort of boosted my confidence. She made a countdown of three, two, and then one. I made a huge leaped to the trapeze and I was so surprised that I made it, I thought I was going to fall. Then she lowered me down and I felt good about myself because I grabbed onto the trapezes, “I thought it was going to be harder, but it wasn’t”. Unfortunately my group had to leave, so that means I didn’t get to go on the Centipede.

All in all, I had a great experience at the ropes course because, I haven’t done anything nearly as fun of an activity than this one. If I rated this ropes course I would give it a ten out of ten.