Go Ape, Cannock Chase

To vary things up a bit, Helen E decided to organise a load of us to go to (Go Ape at Cannock Chase ). Up for the challenge was, Helen P, Helen E, Paul, Edd, Louise, Tom, Dave, Marta and Jon!! Up early on a Sunday, we all managed to find it except Edd who got lost somewhere near Cannock. Starting off with a demostration, Dave was doing his spiderman impressions and Helen P was amazed that she managed to do the zip slide a massive one foot of the ground. Edd turned up at this point, but had to go with the next group but he managed to catch us up because the next lot faffed.



After demo, we all climbed up the ladders into the trees. I have been on one of these courses before (forest of dean), but they all vary a bit - but start relatively tame and then get more difficult. A couple of the party are scared of heights and started to wonder why they had agreed to do this :)



Up into the trees the first site was pretty good and the first zip slide I ended up on my arse in the leaves. As did a few others. This slide was a lot longer than anything at the forest of dean site. Rushing through the air backwards on a Sunday morning is pretty cool...



The next two sites were in a seperate area, with the last one returning back to near where we started. It was quite a cold morning - and the sun did pop out for a bit!! The lovely views however did help the vertigo, although considering vertigo is no laughing matter, Paul (main height scaredy cat) was doing very well!! A couple more zip slides and a ridicolous cool cargo net swing (I managed to sneak back round and have another go - yeah!!) later we had all successfully reverted back to our tree dwelling ways with ease and had a great laugh :) We all recovered at the end with a yummy icecream.



Most Impressive Fight Against Vertigo: Paul
Cheeky value for money: Me.