Our Fifth Week

This week was daily training on the high courses.  Each of the five Challenge Courses have a high course.  Very appropriately named.  They are high off the ground.  They have a high challenge, and you get a emotional, mental and spiritual high when you complete them.


Challenge Course 1 - Climb a free-swinging 30 foot pole.  Cross a 40 foot cable holding onto a white rope to the Eagles nest and zip line 200 feet.

In the Eagles Nest on CC 1

On the Zip line CC 1

Challenge Course 2 - Climb a 30 foot "telephone" pole.  Cross a 40 foot log to the Eagles nest and zip line 200 feet.

CC 2

Challenge Course 3 - Climb a 30 foot cargo net.  Cross a 40 foot rope bridge to the Eagles nest and zip line 200 feet.

Mike on CC 3 Cargo Net

Bunni on CC 3 Cargo Net

Bunni on rope ladder on CC 3

Challenge Course 4 - Climb a 30 foot "telephone" poll.  Cross a 40 foot cable holding onto well spaced, knotted ropes hanging vertically to the Eagles nest and zip line 200 feet.

I forgot to take a picture of this course.  

I was a little nervous at the time.

Challenge Course 5 - You are pulled to a height of 50 feet until your toes touch a tall pine tree.  When you are ready, you let loose of the cord and you SWING.  AMAZING RIDE!!  LOVE IT.

Just before I let go to Swing

Swinging!!  SO FUN!

     Saturday was the Heber Valley Camp Open House.  In the morning we worked on Challenge Course 1.  Mike was the belayer and I was in the Eagles Nest hooking Boy Scouts to the zip line.  This was their service project to help us get on the job training.  Some were up the pole and over to the Eagle nest in about 2 minutes.  Others were very nervous but completed the course and came back to do it again.  

This is challenge-by-choice.  You go as far, as high, and as fast as you choose until you feel you have met your challenge.

Learning Important Knots for the belay line.

Sunday was a very welcomed day of rest.  We attended church, our weekly potluck, and a study group in the evening.

I learned trust this week.  

• I learned to trust the equipment.  It was been inspected and found in great repair.  The  cables, caribiners, ropes and harnesses, etc. are strong enough to hold 7000       to 9000 pounds.

• I learned to trust the belayers who held the rope that kept me safe.

• I learned to trust myself.  I was trained and I know what to do to be safe.  When I climb with confidence in myself I make careful, correct decisions.

• I learned to trust my Heavenly Father.  I must pray about five times every morning.  I have private prayer both morning and night, prayer with Mike, prayer with our team and then more private prayers as I climb, work in the Eagle Nest, zip, and swing. I  finally realized that I had prayed sufficiently and now I needed to trust that my prayers had been heard and I was watched over.  

• Trust takes faith in yourself, others and especially Heavenly Father.