Sunday, April 02, 2006

Philippine Challenge at Outland Adventure


On Monday, March 27, the missionaries from Philippine Challenge went to Outland Adventure. This was the first time for Tara to participate in the "adventures" and Eric had done a few before. We started out with low elements which are the Trust Fall and the wall. The trust fall is a platform 5 feet in the air and you stand and fall into the groups arms. The wall is a 12 ft. wall that you have to get your whole team over without a ladder, step stool, or anything like that. Just imagination and your team. Then we started the high elements which include: vertical playpen, catwalk, trapeze jump, pamper pole, and the zipwire. Vertical playpen is a series of logs and tires that you and your partner must climb to the top and touch a cowbell and then come down. The catwalk is a log 60 ft. in the air that you have to walk across and then back to the middle and then come down. The trapeze jump is a platform 35 ft. up that you jump from and try to touch a ball that is about 8 to 10 ft. away from the platform. The pamper pole is a 60 ft. pole that you have to climb to the top of and stand on and state a goal, then jump. The zipwire is 300 ft. across a lake. Eric and Tara were partners on the vertical playpen and were able to make to the top after a lot of struggle and bruises. Tara did all of the high elements except for the pamper pole. Eric did all of them and had a scary little mishap on the zipwire. The staff uses a rope to stop you at the end. Well...when Eric went the rope broke when trying to stop him. Thankfully he was able to stop. We had a lot of fun but more importantly worked as a team.

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