We decided to go to three islands: Maui (where a couple of friends of ours were getting married), the Big Island (to visit the temple), and Oahu (mainly to take a "Lost" tour, but Josh is planning a big, long post about that). In addition to the wedding, we also went ziplining on Maui, at a place called Skyline Eco Adventures. Neither of us had done that before, but Josh had read about it and thought it sounded cool.
There were eight ziplines, ranging from 450 to 1100 feet, over two canyons. They drove us near the top of a mountain, then we ziplined and hiked our way down.
We had to wear harnesses and helmets the whole time, which we sometimes a little unwieldy. We basically swung across from one platform to another, which looked something like this:
We would launch off the side with the stairs (we had to run down the stairs and leap into the air), and land on the side with the ramp. Sometimes I got going so fast it was really hard to land correctly. You were supposed to transition your zipping momentum into running momentum and run to the top of the ramp. I was terrible at it.
But first we would attach to the wire like this:
And then swing across like this:
It was similar to sitting in a little seat, if your seat was made of nylon straps that loosened if you moved too much. It sounds scary, it looks scary, but it wasn't scary at all. I never felt like I was going to fall out, but I was terrible at the landing, and it was a bit hard to steer (ie stay facing forward).
This is what the typical zipline looked like:
We also had lunch about halfway through. The view was beautiful:
The only downside was that we got really, super dirty. At the end, our legs looked like this:
It was quite the adventure! If you're ever in Maui (or, apparently, Dollywood), I totally recommend trying it.
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