Day #6 in St. Brieuc – Tree Climbing Adventure Park
[Photos taken on Friday 14 July 2017, posted online on 18 November 2017. We’ve had snow on the ground for a week now.]
As is by now a custom, we located a tree-climbing adventure park near our house.
Even though 14 July is Bastille Day, we were happy to find out the park was open. This one even had activities for small children but only with supervision, which suited us very well, since Finnur was unable to climb due to his recently broken collar bone. (31 images, 2 gifs, 1 video).
By the gear-station.
Spooling back in time a bit, this had become our regular brunch.
At the parking lot of the climbing park. We had to walk a little ways to get to the gear-station/starting point.
Cows chowing down in front of some climbing structures.
Bjarki getting fitted with a safety harness.
Siblings about to go on the short training course.
Here are all the climbers, all geared up!
The park is divided into courses, the more difficult ones being located higher up in the trees. All the courses have some sort of “bridge” to get you from one tree to the next, and they’re all different.
Another crossing.
Meanwhile, Emma was climbing this big wall with her dad watching her.
The view from the top, that’s a long way down!
All the courses (parcour) were clearly labeled and categorized.
The rule is that only one person can be on a “bridge” at a time. Here Bjarki’s clipped his safety harness to the wire, and is waiting for Anna to finish climbing up. Once you’re clipped in, you can’t be unclipped except at the end of the course.
Bjarki moving one of his two clips between wires.
That’s pretty high up!
Here’s the beginning of a zip-line bridge.
More ziplines by the pretty view.
Bjarki maching on like the trooper he is!
Meanwhile, Emma explored the kiddie track.
Cute kid is cute!
Emma’s safety harness had a different safety clip to ours, so there was no cheating.
Bjarki giving Emma some helpful instructions.
Anna and Bjarki watching Emma climb up the tall wall.
Emma could also go on a couple of short zip lines. Those were fun!
Wihle I took a short break, Anna and Bjarki went on the most difficult course, and ended very high up!
What’s even crazier, is that they crossed that stub-bridge above them, which required a lot of stability on their part! The ended up leaving the course at its mid-point as it was a tad too nerve wracking.
Here I am back up in a tree!
This bridge consisted of a moving vehicle you stepped on and rolled over on. It caused a lot of delays because stopping at the tree was nigh impossible without someone helping on that end.
Much deserved ice-cream at the end of the day!
Back at our house at the end of the day, after watering the plants.
Yay, dinner guests! 🙂
