It was my second year of overnight camp. I was nine going on ten years old. I'd really been enjoying camp and was having a lot of fun.
Wednesday was a cabin day. That meant that all the cabins went off separately and did some fun activity that the counselors chose. It was kind of like a cabin bonding time.
This particular Wednesday, my cabin was scheduled to do the ropes course. The ropes course is up in the trees and has all different kinds of challenges. You make your way through the course wearing a harness that is attached to a cable overhead. So even if you fall, the harness you're wearing, and the rope it's attached to, catch you. But being up so high and having to balance and climb and do things that might even be difficult on the ground can be scary.
