Riding the wires

One thing that Andrea really wanted to do while she was still here was to go to Apaneca and do the canopy tour that is found out there. There are 14 cables that go back and forth and down a nice biggish mountain, and so if you have the courage and $30, you can go and have a really good time. Last Tuesday Arlynn, Andrea and I went, and we had a GREAT time.

There are 14 cables that go from tree to tree, or mountain to mountain. The short cables are 10-15 meters long, and the longest one is 280 meters long, with 125 meters of air underneath.

Here I am, on one of the longer runs.

Here is a map of the different cable runs.

After we were done we went back to the office, where they gave us pan dulce and sold us coffee. It was starting to rain, and its cool up there in the mountains, so coffee was very ideal right then. I bought a t-shirt there, to add to my already very large stack of shirts that I have acquired at the various places that I’ve visited.

It’s now time for me to get to work. I’m going to take the van over to Aguilares to get Samuel Amaya to do some welding on it.

- Aaron

~ by Aaron on June 20, 2009.