Flying Blind

I talked about my zip line adventure in yesterday's blog. An extremely low probability substantial risk compared to a high probability of a great adventure (reward) found me on the zip line.

There were a total of eight lines, and you progressed from tower to tower, changing lines at each tower as you descended the mountain. The first line was one of the longest, and the one that required little effort on our part. We didn't need to use a brake hand or follow guide signals. Just hand on and go. We told that we might spin (as we were not using our braking hand). We were also told that they would control our speed and stop us. They neglected to tell us how they would stop us.

Off I went. Good ride down, but I did spin 180 about half way and continued backwards from that point. Good ride, but I couldn't see the where I was going. But I enjoyed the ride and was real complacent until ......WHAM and I saw a cable flying off in front of me.

Click here to see a picture and learn what happened.

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