Hello Family, friends and other readers,
This past Saturday I went on another Navitat Canopy Adventures (aka zip line eco-tour), but this time I went with my sister's clan, sans the sister though. All-in-all there were myself, my brother-in-law Frank, my nephew Nick and his girlfriend Jenn, and my niece Lindsey and her boyfriend David. Our group of 8 was completed by 2 other eco-tourists, Luke & Luis. Our guides were Raymond and Jesse. They are the persons that protected us making sure we were each securely harnessed & cabled for our utmost protection and enjoyment. If you are interested in learning more about Navitat Canopy Adventures please visit their site
http://www.navitat.com/wrightwood, tell them you heard about them from me.
Additional pictures of this event can be found in my alternate blog location. This primary location has a large assortment of my favourite pictures but there are so many to share I need to use the alternate site, that is also the place to find pictures of the guides and the other tourists, Luis & Luke. Click on this link to go there
http://document-my-life-additionalpics.blogspot.com/ .
We were fortunate the overcast burned off before our 11:30am tour time. The weather was quite beautiful and at this time of the year some of the leaves in the forest were started to turn their autumn colours.
Lindsey was a natural at the line - such gracefulness, it was like she was sitting in a chair. Frank, he dismounted like a pro most of the time, and one of the the zip dismounts Nick performed I thought he was going to come in with a hand relaxing down as he cruized into the platform (show-off). David seems quite comfortable in the activities & harness (perhaps due to his work experiences of being a lineman(?)). Jenn, on the other hand, well, she did seem to have her own less-graceful style in braking (more like crashing into the guide's brake, hehehehe). Tostada Jenn, not burrito. Tostada. But in Jenn's defense, it did seem her arms are a bit short for the more traditional style of braking. It would make sense if you were there. But Jenn did get the additional adventure on one of the longer zips (1,100'-ish) when she contacted the destination platform (bam!) but then backzipped what must have been a couple hundred feet, leaving her dangling there to be rescued by one of our faithful guides. Appearantly he monkey-crawled the zipline, using both hands & feet, to help her back to the platform. I would have loved to have been on the platform on that side of the zip to have witnessed that activity. What an extra adventure too, I believe I would have loved to have been dangling there more than 150' above the forest floor. The view must have been remarkable; scary, but remarkable.
So anyway, thanks again for reading on through my rambling. I enjoy the zips and eco-tour and I hope my sister's clan enjoyed it equally.
Some of the pictures below were taken by the professional platform photographer supplied by Navitat. I have credited those pictures, all other pictures were taken by my trusty digital Fujifilm FinePix A820 camera. A little point-&-shoot camera but it takes some really nice pictures.
Please click here for the additional pictures that I did not put on this primary page:
http://document-my-life-additionalpics.blogspot.com/
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