Birthday

While standing on a log rearrange yourselves to be in birth order by month then day. Years are not taken into the equation. The rules are that you may not speak or touch the ground.

Cable Walk

A team of two walks along their own cables using Spotters. The spotters are there to help support the team in case they begin to fall. The team may help hold each other up and keep balance but may not touch the ground. If they touch the ground then they must start over. The further you get on the cables the farther apart the two people become. None of the teams managed to make it all of the way down the cables but Rolland and Bill got the farthest.

Willow in the Wind

Staying stiff as a board you fall any direction you want inside a circle of spotters. The spotters gently push you back. You can start to float around inside the circle, which makes the appear of a Willow floating in the wind.

Trust Fall

Once on the platform, tell everyone who you are and why you are taking this challenge. turn your back to the spotters and recite your promise. "I promise to keep my feet together, my body stiff as a board, and my arms crossed." This promise if followed through is to keep everyone safe. If the Faller doesn't keep his body stiff and arms in then often times they will fall through the 'zipper' created by the spotters laying their arms straight across and flat to catch the faller's body. A bent body will slice through the zipper and the person could be injured. The arms must be kept in to resist the urge to catch yourself when falling. Often when the arms are out people get hit on the Faller's way down.

The Wall

The object is to get everyone up the wall. Only two people can stay at the top to help the other members get pulled up. Once you have gone up you may not help another person up the wall physically (unless you're on top of the tower). You're job once you've come back down from the tower is to spot the remaining members and give verbal encouragement.

Flying Squirrel

Everyone had a chance to be the 'Flying Squirrel' before we found out that the other group going through COPE wasn't done at the Confidence Pole yet. Since we had time, everyone that wanted to went up again. Only this time they had to say what they would be as they fly through the air. After we ran the squirrel up the line, we let them back down almost to the ground for Scott to grab their feet and spin the fast. We then ran the rope back up the hill sending the squirrel up once again only this time they're spinning. :)

The Confidence Pole

Climb up a 32-foot pole in a harness and jump for the trapeze. You're on belay so the only thing you have to worry about is conquering your fear of Gravity.

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