GENTLEMEN, PREPARE TO FACE YOUR FEAR OF HEIGHTS HEADON! 

Campers balance aboard a telephone pole secured to two parallel poles. Sounds pretty easy, right? Ha, here’s the catch…that horizontal telephone pole stands about 20-30 feet off the ground! Not to worry – each young man is first secured within a myriad of security ropes which are steadied by a half-dozen or so instructors and campers whose feet are planted firmly upon the ground.

Over on the Multi-Line Bridge campers progress across the rope ‘bridge’ while steadying themselves with a series of ropes dangling from an upper cable…just barely out of reach. STRETCH, grab that rope, and STEADY AS HE GOES!

For those fearless campers who have no fear or heebie-jeebies while walking about with one’s head in the clouds, there’s the ‘Heebie-Jeebie’, so appropriately entitled! Two lengths of rope are adhered to telephone poles, anchored to a lower cable on which the camper walks, using the ropes for support. The support offered by the first rope diminishes steadily, until the camper is forced to switch to the other rope.

Not enough of a challenge yet? Hook up your harness, shimmy up the 10-foot ladder, then climb to the top of the waiting 30-foot telephone pole by inserting your shoes into the steel pegs, moving one foot to the very top of the pole, then the other. As your second foot moves upwards, you fling your arms out straight to steady your stance as you realize it’s all you up here in the stratosphere. You inch your body upwards until you’re standing rigid as a concrete pillar. Your gaze comes to rest on the white plastic ‘rabbit’ suspended just a couple of feet upward, and of course, outward bound! A chorus of “JUMP” from campers below and the DI’s count, “One, two, THREE!” prompts you to gather all your bravado and…up you jump, smack the plastic triumphantly as the ropes and harness are pulled taut by the crew below. You’re lowered slowly, giving you a few seconds to take in what you’ve just accomplished… Guts, glory, no more fear of heights, and oh-what-a-great-feeling… HOO RAH!