As I am writing these lines, every member of my household is moving a bit more slowly, fighting against muscles that would rather recuperate from yesterday’s exertions.

We had spent Saturday at my mother’s house in Sutton, a ski resort in the Eastern Townships that is a 90 min drive from Montreal. After a morning hike and a copious lunch we decided to try out the new Adventure Park. The site is essentially a series of 54 platforms, zip lines and obstacles nestled up in the forest canopy. Christiane and I had previously experienced canopy tours in Costa Rica and we expected the whole thing to be fairly easy.

We were so wrong.

Divided between four paths of increasing difficulty (green, blue, red and black) the whole thing turned out to be quite a test of our agility, equilibrium, strength and endurance. To quote my daughter, some of these obstacles were “more scary than anything at La Ronde”. We zipped down the lines, swung from a rope into a net, climbed up and down many ladders and tried to remain steady while walking on tightropes and contraptions of wood and rope. The worst for me was the middle of the black section. Just as my body was about to give up, I had to swing across on a series of 8 stirrups dangling on a cord and 50 feet up in the air. When you take that first step, it’s like walking off into the void.

But in the end, we all made it and we’ll definitively do it again.

BTW the pictures shown above were taken last Fall. We didn’t go up then since my youngest daughter wasn’t 12 years old yet. It is also a good idea to bring water and power bars. Doing all four sections can take up to three hours.

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