okay so we want to tell you that school
is almost out and many of you are
probably thinking what are we gonna do
what road trips are we gonna take this
summer yeah so several times this summer
the daytime crew is hitting the road and
we're hitting them for the daytime
destinations two different different
places yes and this time we head to West
Virginia yes which is the wild and
wonderful State and today we are taking
some adventures at a place called
adventures on the gorge and let's just
say we really stepped out of our comfort
zone take a look the daytime crew is
hitting the road this summer our first
stop is West Virginia here at adventures
on the gorge yes and today we're gonna
do a little ziplining
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all right Sara we're really excited to
be here and you're gonna take us out on
a treetop canopy tour all right tell us
about that so it's a canopy tour we're
gonna do 10 zipline they traverse from
tree to tree other five swinging sky
bridges a short hike in the middle and
then you do a 35 foot rappel to exit the
course out of a tree platform Wow
that sounds like a lot we do put you
through up what we call a ground school
to start with so we teach you what to do
oh you have to be at least ten years old
and weigh 90 pounds and then the upper
weight limit is 216 okay and then when I
get out there you know you're gonna kind
of show me how to you know hold on and
steer and all that stuff absolutely like
I said we do at ground school so we
teach you all the do's and don'ts of the
course and then we put you on a practice
run so that you can feel how it feels to
sit in a harness and teach you how to
steer and brake and make sure that you
know what to do before you get on
anything too big we load it onto the bus
and headed out with our gear and hiked
out to the area that they call ground
school here Sara went over the basics
and allowed each of us to harness into
the zipline where we could practice
steering braking and the emergency exit
for just in case once we had the basics
mastered it was time to head out to our
first sip we got onto the platform
Clifton lean back and glided along for a
thrilling ride while we were a little
nervous at first Sara reminded us of how
safe we were harnessed into the zip in
fact she had us lean back while on the
platform something I was not comfortable
with
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but with each zip we got more and more
comfortable and pretty quickly we were
able to really enjoy the gorgeous
scenery all around us there are ten zip
lines on this canopy tour and each one
takes you through the old-growth hemlock
forests of the New River Gorge and each
zip offers incredible scenery along with
the zip lines there are five cable sky
bridges as we nervously walked along
each bridge we had to stop and take in
the view we found ourselves crossing
over Mill Creek and saw beautiful
rhododendron all around us everyone who
goes if on this course pays a fee that
goes into a fund that helps protect this
forest an invasive beetle has brought
widespread destruction to these native
hemlocks and this company and its staff
work hard to protect this small section
of forest we come out and we and our
trees are in awesome shape after our
canopy tour was over West showed us how
they treat the hemlocks I would just
drill a small little hole into the tree
and we use this here pretty much just
like a shot in the human vascular system
you just put it in the drill all right
the hole you pressurize it and it starts
pumping out through the tree it's pretty
cool you just come out and the tree will
suck all that up and you'll turn them
upside down and they come out about a
week later we call it a venturi their
work is keeping these trees healthy and
vibrant and we enjoy the protection from
the rain as we hike back to our bus okay
the ziplining assignments so now
in the rain and you know what I don't
even care and it's so beautiful yes
that was so much so much fun and I have
to say I'm not thrilled about heights
but it doesn't that right yeah it really
doesn't matter you feel really really
safe and protected and it's just so
beautiful that you're like not aware
that you're just going so great and this
Resort offers a lot of other adventures
and stay tuned next week we're going to
share our adventure as we do a little
whitewater rafting on the new river yeah
so the resort offers cabins where you
can stay a restaurant on site for more
information you can visit their website
adventures on the gorge calm