NEW FOR YOU!!!

OK… it is time to share with you some of the details of what we have been up to for the past 6 months.

Today we will focus on the High Adventure Program!!!

High Adventure, as you know, is comprised of several facilities on Apple Hill. The primary area is the climbing wall: a 40 foot tall, 4 sided monster of a wall that is a ton of fun. In addition to the wall is the ever popular “Screamer” (basically a gigantic swing that is very exciting) and the “Leap of Faith” (a 40 foot pole that you climb on top of then jump from with hopes of catching a pole 10 feet away). All of these events have you in a body harness and helmet for safety, obviously!

This year we did a lot of work on High Adventure… rebuilding the wall and adding THREE ZIP LINES to the program area!!! Zip Lines have made the camper “wish list” for several years. Our solution was to add the zip lines to the climbing wall.

We first renovated the wall, tearing down three of the climbing surfaces and replacing them with two awesome new designs. One is perfect for beginners (with an easy starting wall that transitions to harder elements. The other is perfect for advanced climbers (not impossible to master, but very hard). It is a much better climbing facility, one of the best that I have seen. You will notice that the top of the wall has some funny “porches” leaning out from one side… this is where the zip line will come in and leave!

The Zip course is comprised of three zip lines… entered from the woods above the wall you will lock in and jump into space… literally “flying” to the wall! At the wall you will transition to a second zip line that goes from the wall to a tower build at the front gate of camp (almost 700 feet away)!!! You will leap out into space again, flying over the pools and gym with and amazing view of the lake and mountains to the tower (where you will once again transition to another zip line). The final zip is a quick hop to mother earth, amongst a newly planted apple orchard on the hill. IT IS GOING TO BE SO MUCH FUN!!!

This is one of the projects that we have been working on… more will be unveiled next week!

Jimboy