This weekend, friends and I rented a cottage near Ohiopyle State Park so we could do some things we discovered during our July camping trip there.
The ropes course at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort's adventure center was our first adventure. I can tell you firsthand that it's not for the faint of heart!
Yes, you have a harness on. But the ladder to the first platform requires you to climb 40 very vertical feet up a series of staples pushed into what looked like a telephone pole.
Once you get there, you think that they couldn't possibly have made the catwalk any more narrow -- and don't even think about looking down.
I managed to get across the catwalk, step gingerly from one suspended swinging plank to another and spider walk my way across a vertical web of rope before I decided I had had enough.
I was disappointed in myself. I never expected this kind of thing would bother me. After all, wasn't it just a few months ago I tried a flying trapeze? I don't have a fear of heights.
But I found myself so physically and mentally stressed up there that I just wasn't having fun. Only thing was, to get down, I had to balance my way across a tightrope to reach the platform where they hooked you to a zip line and sent you flying. That part, I liked.
The staff were nice enough to give me what we dubbed a "scaredy-cat discount" on my adventure since I spent the second portion of the session photographing those left on the sky-high jungle gym.
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