The team get harnessed up in the rain
Qualcomm Cambridge "Go Ape", High Lodge, Thetford Forest - 27th July 2006
To celebrate getting a bunch of software out of the door, a corporate gig is arranged at Go Ape in the depths of Thetford Forest near Brandon. This mostly involves high-wire stuff between tree-tops, climbing up wobbly rope ladders, Tarzan leaps (of faith) and exhilirating slides along several zip wires of various lengths. The event is nearly stopped before it even starts, as thunderstorms threaten to let loose in the area and we're in danger of being struck by lightning, what with being up talls trees and everything. However, the weather temporarily moves on so tree-climbing commences. It's pretty humid, hard work and some of the routes are frankly quite scary - crossing a single steel wire between two trees, 12 metres up in the air, for example - but it is pretty cool coming back down the long slides at the end of each stage. Following these arboreal antics, there's a barbeque which finishes just in time for a torrential downpour - a resumption of the UK's monsoon season, following a few-week hiatus in favour of uncommonly hot weather.
next album: A Kingston Street Barbeque with Rachel and Sam, North Romsey, Cambridge- 2nd August 2006
previous album: A Trip on the London Eye and Bill's BBQ, London and Suffolk - 21st July 2006
A somewhat-sodden Leon
Getting used to the harnesses
Martin 'pirate' D stands out in bright orange
Julian wonders what all the bits of rope do
An ape sculpture has a bottle of water on its head
Craig grabs a rope
Dave B on a wire
Dave and a trainer
Dave slides down
Craig on a zipwire
Francis contemplates a huge Tarzan leap
The relief on Francis' face is palpable
Francis takes a photo
Leon with a camera
Isobel makes it into the cargo net
More Tarzan swing action
Liam comes in to land
Amongst the trees
Stef lands and gives it the wild horse-eye look
Nick B makes a pretty good running-stop landing
Isobel comes in to land
Julian unclips
Francis gets off the final slide
Barbequed burgers
Marc Nijdam manage the burgers
Tim Simpson pokes a sausage
Tim flips burgers
Martin, Erica and Craig mill about
Tim roams about
Lucy and Marc
A burger is plucked from the fire
A wave from the barbeque gang
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The team get harnessed up in the rain
The team get harnessed up in the rain
A somewhat-sodden Leon
Getting used to the harnesses
Martin 'pirate' D stands out in bright orange
Julian wonders what all the bits of rope do
An ape sculpture has a bottle of water on its head
Craig grabs a rope
Dave B on a wire
Dave and a trainer
Dave slides down
Craig on a zipwire
Francis contemplates a huge Tarzan leap
The relief on Francis' face is palpable
Francis takes a photo
Leon with a camera
Isobel makes it into the cargo net
More Tarzan swing action
Liam comes in to land
Amongst the trees
Stef lands and gives it the wild horse-eye look
Nick B makes a pretty good running-stop landing
Isobel comes in to land
Julian unclips
Francis gets off the final slide
Barbequed burgers
Marc Nijdam manage the burgers
Tim Simpson pokes a sausage
Tim flips burgers
Martin, Erica and Craig mill about
Tim roams about
Lucy and Marc
A burger is plucked from the fire
A wave from the barbeque gang