Monday, First Day of Course
Started the course with six students. More are expected on Tuesday. Most are guides who must attend around their work schedules.
First day was pretty fast paced, moving quickly through knots and then on to personal rope skills on a 15 meter free hanging rope. The rope is part of the canopy tour (cables between platforms in the trees) here at the hacienda. Guests arrived at a platform above us. Rappelled from a catwalk across the canyon. Rappelled to a lower catwalk. Swung across the canyon on a rope. Climbed a rock wall (on belay) to another platform. Clipped in to another cable and disappeared into the trees.
I found it interesting that the belay on the rock wall was a 4:1 mechanical advantage operated from the platform above. Nobody fails to make it to the top.
