Sunday afternoon was a blast!! Chris, Ssg Strain, and I went repelling at Lone Mtn in Skull Valley! It was my first time EVER and holy crap was it an adrenalin rush! I was kind of nervous, but since I'm not afraid of heights I thought it would be a piece of cake! Well, let me tell you......climbing up to the top of a mountain is nothing....its beautiful and you have a 360 degree view of everything! Its the walking backwards off the edge that gets you! Lol! Chris was waiting for me at the bottom and Strain was at the top giving me some pointers. I hooked myself onto the rope and was like "okay, I got this". BUT as I started walking backwards off the edge I wasn't sure if I could do it! Strain assured me that I would be okay and to trust the rope! So, my butt is hanging off this shear drop off and my feet are on the edge and I was trying to pull myself back up to no avail! Lol! The only place to go was down! For a few feet down my feet were in contact with the rock face then it caved in and there I was....dangling off a rope a few hundred feet off the ground (or so it seemed! lol!) with my heart pumping and me sweating like I stole somthing! LOL! I slowly started letting out the rope to repel down and I let a little too much rope out and I dropped kinda fast then caught myself all the while letting out a shrill girly scream! hahaha! When I came to the ground I was shaking and sweating and exhilerated! Chris kept saying, "wasn't that fun?!" and all I could say was that it was scary! However, the second and third time was awesome, although I was still kinda shakey walking off the edge backwards, but its a rush and it sure gets the adrenalin going! the leg loops kept sliding down my thighs so my butt kept sticking out instead of being in a seated-like postion! Not that my butt isnt out there any other day! Lol!
This is Ssg. Strain. He's a pro at this. He did his first repel here when he was 8!
So, needless to say he was fearless! Lol! He went down head first like a ninja! haha!
6 comments:
OMG>. what fabulous view! i envy you.. i would never have the guts to do that.. LOL... WTG Girl!
Ha ha, being incredibly afraid of heights my hands were sweating just looking at the pics! Great pics and it looks like a lot of fun! I KNOW you are going to scrap it, can't wait to see those pages. Awesome!
Holy moly!!! This looks hardcore BUT super fun ;) I wanna try it one day hope your knee is better!
OK!!! How AWESOME are you???!!! It sounds like you had a day to remember! I would so love to do that! It's one of the things on my list. :) Love the pictures you got! FABULOUS!
Umm wow I wanna go now lolol..I have never been. Well okay I climb Mt Fuji and that was a BEAST .. goodness. Love the view you have in these shots ..
Happy Saturday
Gaah, you are so brave! Rappelling is fun once you're off the ledge, but that first step is HORRIBLE. And I've never tried a freehanging rappel like this! Ugh, it's making me dizzy :D
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