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Ropes Courses and Horseback Riding in the Woods

·Paradise, Nevada·#summer#family trip#forest#horseback-riding#adventure-park#ropes-course
A child in a pink helmet and harness crosses a log bridge on a high ropes course amidst a forest.

We took a trip out to the woods for a few days in mid-July of 2019. The weather was perfect for it—sunny and warm, with clear blue skies.

A good portion of our time was spent at an adventure park built high up in the pine trees. After getting fitted with harnesses and helmets, we navigated the courses. There were wobbly rope bridges to cross and suspended logs to balance on, all a good distance from the ground. The wooden climbing walls were also a real challenge. You can see one of my kids in her pink helmet making her way up one of them.

Later in the trip, we went for a horseback ride. The trail wound through a different part of the forest and along the bank of a stream. Our group of four paused by the water for a while. It was a completely different pace from the ropes course, just a quiet and calm way to spend an afternoon.

A person in a helmet and harness walks across a wooden log bridge suspended over a forest canopy under a blue sky.A child in a pink helmet climbs a wooden wall at an outdoor adventure park with another person on a ropes course.A child in a pink helmet climbs a rock wall, while another person crosses a suspended bridge in a sunny forest.Two children and a person navigate an adventure course with a climbing wall and platforms high in a forest.A child in a pink helmet climbs a wooden wall at an outdoor adventure park with trees and other people.A person on a brown horse looks back, another person on horseback behind them on a trail with grassy hills and trees.Four people on horseback are lined up on a dirt path beside a river with wooded hills in the background.Four people, two adults and two children, ride horses on a dirt path beside a river with forested hills.

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