Recently, we had a break where there were no check-ins or check-outs, so we took advantage of the free time -- purely a business trip, of course -- to check out a new canopy tour, or zipline, in the San Lorenzo Cloud Forest for future guests here. . . And when I say cloud forest, it is in the clouds. It's amazing to be soaring through the clouds at a good clip. . . The company is called San Luis Canopy Tour, and is on the road between here and San Ramon. . . A very nice place with 12 lines. . . For those who haven't zipped before, you wear a harness and are hooked onto a line that goes between trees and you can get going pretty fast. . .You have on gloves, and your dominant hand has padding on the glove, as you press down with that to slow yourself down . . . We've done it before, and this one was really fun. . . You start out with a couple of short lines and you're a few hundred feet off the ground at some points, going over and through the trees, with a river and waterfalls visible way below you. . . The last line is 550 meters long (about 1,800 feet, I believe) and ends up right at the restaurant of the tour. Our guides were great, funny and informative. . . There's also a Tarzan Swing, where you hook in to a line and go flying str
aight out and then back several times. . . The Tarzan Swing was a first for us, and we really enjoyed it. . . Here's a picture I took of Mark swinging through the jungle...I would put in a picture of myself on the Tarzan Swing, but Mark took the picture and got a really nice shot of my hand only, he forgot the rest of me...we didn't sound much like Tarzan when we were swinging, but since this is a family-friendly blog, we won't print what was said while flying through the clouds. . .
Recently, we had a break where there were no check-ins or check-outs, so we took advantage of the free time -- purely a business trip, of course -- to check out a new canopy tour, or zipline, in the San Lorenzo Cloud Forest for future guests here. . . And when I say cloud forest, it is in the clouds. It's amazing to be soaring through the clouds at a good clip. . . The company is called San Luis Canopy Tour, and is on the road between here and San Ramon. . . A very nice place with 12 lines. . . For those who haven't zipped before, you wear a harness and are hooked onto a line that goes between trees and you can get going pretty fast. . .You have on gloves, and your dominant hand has padding on the glove, as you press down with that to slow yourself down . . . We've done it before, and this one was really fun. . . You start out with a couple of short lines and you're a few hundred feet off the ground at some points, going over and through the trees, with a river and waterfalls visible way below you. . . The last line is 550 meters long (about 1,800 feet, I believe) and ends up right at the restaurant of the tour. Our guides were great, funny and informative. . . There's also a Tarzan Swing, where you hook in to a line and go flying str
aight out and then back several times. . . The Tarzan Swing was a first for us, and we really enjoyed it. . . Here's a picture I took of Mark swinging through the jungle...I would put in a picture of myself on the Tarzan Swing, but Mark took the picture and got a really nice shot of my hand only, he forgot the rest of me...we didn't sound much like Tarzan when we were swinging, but since this is a family-friendly blog, we won't print what was said while flying through the clouds. . .
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