Canopy, aka zip lines, BOTH of us!

Today we had an adventure. This is our last full day in Baños. We kept walking past GeoTours, the company that arranged Phillip´s paragliding adventure. Phillip suggested we find out how much a zip line tour would be. With my idea that we were looking for Phillip only, we went in. The GeoTour guy is so nice and reassuring, showing me the pictures and videos of a canopy tour... he (and Phillip) sold me on participating as well. So, this afternoon, we went on 6 progressively longer and higher ziplines thru the trees and over the river. Ziplines of 150 meters working up to 550 meters long.

Yep, that is me! Indianna Pat traded her leather hat for a safety helmet to do the ziplines. Since y'all would believe that he´d do it, but may not believe that I´d do it, Phillip had the camera most of the time to video and photograph me. I took the camera during one of the ziplines, so I do have video of him. Here he is after one of the ziplines, all decked out in the gear:

When I first sat in the harness after it was attached to the line, I actually felt secure because the straps come around one´s butt and feel like a seat. I was actually only terrified during the walk up to the last, and highest, zipline. A path cut in the side of the mountain, less than 18 inches wide in spots, with a drop down the side...One of the operators had me hang onto one of his straps (like the blue one you see on Phillip), not really to keep me from sliding down the mountain, but to make me feel better. It worked, and we made it to that last one. Not only did we see the mountains and waterfalls as we zipped along, but we also walked to waterfall:

GeoTours sent Oliver (I couldn´t catch the Spanish version of his actual name, sounded like Oliver to me) with us for two reasons: the operators didn´t speak English and they wanted Oliver to videotape the ziplines, as this one is fairly new and they didn´t have good quality video of it. When we finished out tour and the operators dropped us off at GeoTours, Oliver offered us a copy of the videos he had taken! almost 2 gb of files. Luckily, I just happened to have an unused 4 gb SD card and the SD to USB convertor in my pocket, so I have all the video that Oliver shot with his helmet camera. An excellent adventure, and video to prove it!