THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, July 7, 2011


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The Smart Belays, or Monkey Paws, are designed so that both cannot be disconnected from the safety lines at the same time.


Monkey Trunks High Ropes and Zipline Course has three levels with over 40 challenges. BRENDAN SMITH PHOTOS


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swing. The first visitors on open-


ing day weren’t strangers to Monkey Trunks. “We have done the course


One of many of the Safety Staff at Monkey Trunks goes over the proper use of equipment before starting.


in Chocorua and we were anxious to give this one a try,” said Nathan Walker from New London, who tackled the course with his daughter Megan and son-in-law Mick Nagle who were visiting from The Sun- shine Coast of Australia along with their children Ronan and Lachlan. By the time the first hour


at the newest Monkey Trunks had passed there were over forty adventurers climbing, swinging and zip- ping amidst the awesome structure. Among those early arriv-


als were the Caron Fam- ily from Northfield , NH, whose youngest, Cassie, was the grand prize winner of The Monkey Trunks “De- sign A Course” contest. Cassie, nine, had read


about the contest in a local paper. With only four days until the contest ended, Cassie went to work creat-


ing a series of designs and one of them was picked. Called “Cassie’s Leaping Lemurs” it resembles a se- ries of mushroom-looking wooden platforms that each adventurer must carefully make their way across. “I don’t really know where


I got the idea,” said Cassie. “It just kind of came to me. I had a lot of things in my head.” Cassie won a day at Mon-


key Trunks with her family and an upcoming class trip as well.


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Ronan Nagle practices using his harness and monkey paws before starting on his Monkey Trunks adventure.


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