Last week, fed up of boring town (not as interesting as university city), and having a local friend moan about how boring the place was, we went off to the local Go Ape course. For those who've never heard of it, it's a high wire course in the trees. Safety training is provided, but then you're let loose, unsupervised, self-reliant, into the trees. Issues with organising such trips always occur, as local friends are impossible to get together (apart from living 20 miles from each other without means of transport, not everyone stays in the country), so I was fairly pleased with a turnout of 6.
However, one had neglected to mention a fear of heights. She was extremely brave, and took part in two of the five individual courses, and then dithered about the others. It also informed me that I'm something of an adrenaline junkie - the zip-wires at the end of each individual courses give a great high, as do the tarzan swings - you attach yourself to a short piece of rope, and then fling yourself off the platform into a net. Extremely scary, but also amazing fun.
High places rock!
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