Take the Viaferada (Iron Route) Colorado

“We were told this part was optional, but everybody in our group went for it. One by one we walked out onto a wooden bridge that just stopped in midair. It felt some what like walking the plank on a pirate ship, knowing I was going to have to take the plunge. [...] I was questioning if I had what it takes to jump when Sunshine started counting down from three. I jumped on cue without thinking, it was a rush. I floated to the ground, and then watched as the rest of my group worked up the courage to make the same leap.”

“The intensity level went up pretty quickly after that first training section. The next part of the Via Ferrata put us out on iron rungs on the side of a cliff wall 100 or so feet in the air. We scrambled from rung to rung, securing ourselves to cables along the way, until we made it to a wooden suspension bridge. We bounced across the bridge, minding the big gaps between the boards, over to a rocky outcropping and then scrambled across more iron rungs on to flat ground.”

“The intensity of the trip began to set in as I felt the weight of the harness, ferrata device, and additional carabiners fall heavy onto me as Adrian helped me adjust all of my gear appropriately. [...] Over the next three hours we defied gravity in the most bad-ass ways our course designers could imagine! We traversed cliff side with mere inches of rock to cautiously rest our feet on, braved our way across the ever unstable slack-line stretched high across the earth, and repelled our way down the cliff side to eventually place out feet back on the land.”