Parish Walk Training Diary

Went to the Lakes for a couple of days last week and ended up at Go Ape, a kind of Krypton Factor assault course but at 60 foot above ground, between trees. You’re in a harness, so you can’t fall off but the death slides and various air-bourne challenges are still quite scary. It wasn’t Parish Walk training in a physical sense (although hauling yourself up the Tarzan nets is a good work-out for the arms) but psychologically, I think it was useful training. There were quite a few puzzles which you couldn’t work out just be looking at them. You had to just launch yourself off your tree platform and hang on for grim death to whatever ropes were around while you found a way to complete that challenge. Yes, useful.