Klettergarten ('Climbing Garden')

Today, after a few days relaxing at the campsite, I went to the Klettergarten, or climbing garden, with Jonas and my campsite friends Thomas and Christopher. We had to swing from tree to tree and go over various obstacles with carabiners and a pulley. The ropes which spanned from tree to tree were marked with green or red. On the green ones we fastened our carabiners and on the red ones we fastened pulleys. The courses were marked 1 2 3 4 5. After the practice course we moved from course to course and I finished the entire garden with Jonas. The first couple were very easy, the hardest obstacle being a shaky bridge. We soon learned to fasten the pulleys onto the wire and slide down to the next tree on the course. At the middle of the fourth course, Christopher went down from the tree on the 'Bail out ladder' as Jonas and I went up to about 45 feet above the ground to a pulley slide. We finished the course exhausted but unhurt and moved on to the last course. We climbed 20 feet up a 4 inch wide ladder to a platform and swung about 40 feet on a rope to the next tree, where we had to climb a net with the rope tugging at our backs. We finished this and pulley-slid to the next tree. Then came the hard part. 30 smal woden swings, 4 feet from each other, spanned to the next platform. Jonas and I couldn't step from swing to swing so we turned backward and pulled ourselves along the rope where we were fastened until we were close enough to the next swing. We finished with our arms burning but continued anyway. The next obstacle was a trapeze - monkey bar contraption and didn't know what to do so we just shimmeyed along the rope where we were fastened. Lastly, we slid at breakneck speed into a pad on the last tree. I hit with my chest first and it hurt alot, but then it was easy to get down to the ground. In all, a great experience and well worth the time there.