Ropes Course

This is R writing today!

Saturday Daddy, S, T, Aunt P, Uncle D and I went to Flumserberg, which is a mountain with lots of fun activities on it. What we went to do was go to a ropes course, which is something S was promised would happen before we left. 

The ropes course is one large 3 story structure filled with tons of small obstacles (from something easy like just a wooden plank with some debris on it to a single tightrope or a rope to swing across on) that you use/cross to get from platform to platform. You have a harness that makes sure that you don't fall more than about 6 inches, but even then it can be really frightening at times. The harnesses are actually really cleverly designed. They have two clips, and you'll always have one locked that can't be opened until the other locks. You lock then with these little block things on the ropes. They have some machinery inside that you activate when you press it to the lock. You have to switch the clips from rope to rope depending on which obstacle you want to go on next, so this allows you to be always 100% safe. 

T had his own little course down on floor 0, which is made for the little kids. T's harness had just one car, not two clips, because the small kids can't clip the clips easily. From above, I could look down and see him. He did well most of the time, but he enjoyed not really using the obstacles, but just hanging there on his harness and finding a way to push himself along. After he had done it a few times, he was good enough to graduate to our levels, where we helped him with some of the easier obstacles, as well as his clips, which he was way to small to reach. 

This bike was really hard to use, you have to first find a way on without breaking the bike off of the little metal holding it to the plank (which felt really hard to avoid), the get off of it at the end!

The top two levels (stories) had some really hard obstacles, but also some relaxing ones. In the right picture there's actually just a chairlift chair on top of a wooden platform

After we were done with the ropes course we made our way to a fire pit to make ourselves some lunch. We were the only ones there (and there was only one pit), so we started the fire ourselves. It took some time and quite a few matches, but we all pitched in to help. T collected dry grass and sticks to help us get the fire started, and then put the fire out at the end with a water bottle he found in the backpack we brought. I was in charge of the matches, Everyone else helped collect wood and move the wood around, and Uncle D helped blow the fire to get it going. It was impressive, and really cool to see the flames just jump up. When the fire was going, we took some sticks that S carved the bark off of with her Swiss army knife, and put some pizza dough on them hoping we'd have better luck cooking then last time we tried. It actually worked very, very well this time, and both Aunt P and I managed to get our breads cooked well, and all the way through, not just charred on the outside.