Work Offsite Ropes Course in Bellevue

A work offsite put us in Bellevue, and the group part of it happened at the ropes course in Eastgate Park, up the hill from the South Bellevue Community Center. The Aerial Park side has around 26 elevated elements strung between the firs: rope pyramids you climb up through from the inside, cargo nets, bridges that sway if anyone else so much as breathes on them. The youngest in our crew went up the tall cargo net wall spread-eagled, feet on two different ropes, and paused halfway to look back down.

After that, the Zip Tour — seven lines and two suspension bridges, the biggest line running about 80 feet above the forest floor. A lot of the day was standing clipped to a tree on a platform in a borrowed helmet, waiting a turn.

There's a 36-foot climbing wall at ground level too, dual-sided with auto-belays, which we never got near. The last element coming back down was a single plank hung on ropes, one board wide, moving the whole way across.