Our Board on the Ziplines!

Last Friday our Board of Directors took to the trees! These are just a few pictures. To see all of the pictures of that day, see our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Asbury-Hills/256806022716?ref=ts

Sign up your group

You can bring a group to Asbury Hills to experience the new zipline canopy tour by calling Sarah at 864.458.2071. We would love to host your group for an overnight retreat or a day experience in the trees. We would love to fly through the trees with you and your group!

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More training pics

Canopy Tour OPEN

Our canopy tour staff was trained this past week-end. Check out these pictures of folks on the course!

Mid April Opening

Our new Zipline Canopy Tour is set to open mid-April at Asbury Hills! This amazing tour will be available for our guests ages 11 and up - including our retreat groups, leadership teams and summer campers. For those groups already on retreat at Asbury Hills, the cost for the tour is only $39 per person. For those groups that want to come to do only the tour, the cost is $49 per person. To add this amazing adventure to your group's retreat or to bring your group for some time zipping through the trees, contact Sarah at 864.458.2071 or info@sccampsandretreat.org.

Almost ready!!

The course is almost ready! The top picture shows the first zip (with a board in place for security when the course is not being used). The other pictures give a feel of the course layout and platforms. We have realized how hard it is to capture the course under construction. Soon we will have training for our staff and provide some great pictures of the course in use - and some video too!

Launch!

The tour will start from the ground level with this small platform for the launch. You can see the first zip line and the second platform on the next tree. It seems so simple when it starts, but very soon you will be many feet up in a tree looking down on the forest!!

Platform building continues

Workers are building the decking on a platform. Construction is progressing quickly!

The bridge

Two of the trees are close together, so we needed to build a bridge to walk across before resuming the next zip. This pictures shows the bridge.

Day Four - platforms

The work today included beginning to build the platforms and add the zip lines! We can now see how the course goes from tree to tree through the woods. As we stand on the silent bridge, we can get a view of many of the zip lines.

The platforms in the picture above are for a short bridge at the beginning of the course. Each tree will have a platform like this as you travel from tree to tree. You can see where the builder is working where the platform will located on that tree! The excitement builds...

A narrative tour...

The canopy tour will begin on the ridge to the left of the dam (if you are standing on the dam facing the mountains). The first zip will begin at ground level - with a short zip to the first tree - 10-12' off the ground. After walking a short bridge, another short zip will take you to the back of the beaver dams. From this point on, you will be 30-40' off the ground! The next zip (longer now) will take you across the beaver dams to the other side of the lake. After a couple more zips, the final ride will go across the lake, back to the area where the ride started - 7 rides total! As construction continues, the pictures will better tell the story! Keep checking back - this is an exciting addition to Asbury Hills!!

Construction Begins!

Construction began yesterday on the new Zipline Canopy Tour!! Here a few pictures to give you a look at what is happening now - just the beginning...