Ithaca, NY
No pictures of this, so I'll keep it short. Discovery Days is the demo that Cornell Outdoor Education runs on the arts quad during orientation week so that freshman can see how awesome we are, basically. We hoist tents and kayaks up into some of the trees on the quad to draw in attention, then set up a mountain biking obstacle course to demo, a slack line to try out, and (drum roll please) a zip line out of one of the tallest trees.
I volunteered for Discovery Days, first because it's the one chance a year us tree climbers get to go crazy in the trees on the arts quad, but also because Discovery Days last year was what made me decide to take tree climbing in the first place. I basically spent the day setting up the zip line, testing it, and helping freshman into helmets and harnesses so they could give it a try themselves. As I was in the tree tying off the tensionless hitches for the two lines of the zip, I kept waving to people on the ground, who all seemed to think it was best to ignore me-- crazy girl in a tree. Hands down the best part of the day was, as I tested the zip line for the first time, watching the expressions of some innocent pedestrians as I zipped right at them, landing a few feet away.
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