What to Expect

• Your reservation time is an approximate time.  You will get your full climb time, even if your start is slightly delayed.
• If you were not able to complete your waiver in advance online, you will have the opportunity to complete a waiver at the park.
• Once all of the waivers are completed and verified, head over to the cashier and check in. If you don’t have a reservation, you can purchase the climbing tickets on-site for the next available time slot.
• Regular tickets are for three-hour climbing sessions, plus an additional 30 minutes for the orientation period, so if you purchase your ticket at 9 a.m., the time-stamp will read 12:30 p.m.

Every Park visit starts with our safety briefing  To get a preview of our safety briefing, watch the video below. Please note that you will still be required to view the video onsite prior to climbing.

If you have attended at least one safety briefing this year, you can join our Briefing Bypass Club by successfully completing an online application. Briefing Bypass Club members can skip the safety briefing for the rest of the season.

• After the briefing instructions, you will harness yourself in the harnessing area.
• Make sure a staff member checks your harness before you proceed to the practice area.
• Have your harness checked by a staff member anytime you harness yourself or others after it’s been removed or adjusted.

Next, you’ll have an opportunity to go through a practice area and get comfortable with using your equipment.

We use an “always locked” clip system to keep you secure while climbing.  Once you clip into a course, one clip will always be attached to the cable until you reach the end.

You use tweezles to transition throughout the course.  What’s a tweezle??? It’s basically a “key” that unlocks one of your clips at the same time it locks the other.  The tweezle is critical to the system that ensures that you are always locked on.

Check out this video to get a preview of how our clips work:

Now you’re ready! Head up to the Main Platform to begin your adventure.  The Park is designed as a “hub and spoke” system.  All trails begin from the Main Platform and extend out into the Park.  Our Main Platform staff is on hand to recommend trails and answer questions.

If this is your first time, we recommend that you choose a yellow or green trail to begin your adventure in the trees.  Visit our Course Levels article and Park Rules for more information on our various levels and trails.