My cousin’s husband, Al has never been to Georgia before. My dad wanted him to see some real Southern stuff, so we headed off to Georgia’s biggest southern attraction, Stone Mountain! If you don’t know, Stone Mountain is one of the world’s largest…uh, stone mountains. It’s actually very cool. Not only is it a natural wonder, it’s also one of the man-made wonders of the world because of the carving in the front. If I remember correctly, the carving is so big you could park a school bus on the horse’s back!
Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson
But before we rode the sky-tram-thingie to the top of the mountain (where you can see all of Atlanta!), we stood in line for an hour to experience the Sky Hike! This is a half-mile ropes adventure course for families. You can choose one of three courses—12 feet off the ground, 24 feet off the ground or 40 feet off the ground. You wear a harness and then are connected to an overhead track…you know, to make sure you don’t plummet to your death below.
At each platform you can choose the “easy” path (a sturdy balance beam or platform) or the more difficult path of a ROPE. As we were standing in line I was not remotely afraid. I was excited about it. I wanted to go on the very tip top and knew I’d be able to do it.
We finally got up to the 2nd level and there was a long line for the 3rd level. Once we realized you could do the 3rd immediately following the 2nd level without standing in line again, we decided to go on the 24foot trail. We walked up a plank to the first platform. I began to take the first step and WAS TERRIFIED. I could not believe how scary it was. It was like taking a blind leap off a cliff!
I finally made it across but when I got to the second platform realized my heart couldn’t take another tip-toe-across-a-piece-of-dental-floss moments, so I alternated easy-hard-easy-hard path. It’s kinda hard to describe but here’s a few pictures of us doing doing our best Spiderman impersonation.
My cousin, Staci on the top level!
Al waiting for us to catch up.
Michelle on one of the “hard” paths.
Les zipping along on the hard path.
Me, looking way more confident than I felt.
and the way I really felt!
Daddy was on the ground taking pictues of us. I yelled down, “THIS IS SO SCARY!” and he said, “Amanda, you look like you’re on the Amazing Race!” Alas, now that I’ve done the Sky Hike, I realized I’m too wimpy to be on The Amazing Race. Good-bye, One Million Dollars. *sniff*
We finally made it to the end of the trail (Michelle and I opted OUT of the 3rd level), kissed the ground, then headed for the top of the mountain. It was breathtaking.
the fam at the top of the mountain
After a trip to the candy story to buy some fudge (and a foot long pixie stick for the girls) we headed to the lawn to watch the LaserShow Spectacular played out on the front of the mountain…but that is another post for another day…
Oh,here’s Asa in all of his Southern-fried glory…and his own raccoon cap!
king of the wild frontier
I’ve never heard of Stone Mountain before-looks really fun!
To be on the Amazing Race would be well, amazing!!! I love that show. Last summer I went tubing on the lake and fell off and couldn’t get back up on the tube so I just kept thinking “Heidi, you are on the amazing race, you have to do this” Success!
Love this!
I think Les had an unfair advantage though, being up on roofs all day. 😉
I don’t know that I could do it, but it sure does look like it’d be fun.
GIRL! They did NOT have that last time I went to Stone Mountain. That looks like so much fun…
Oh my goodness! I’ve done a ropes course before and I was so scared too! It was a retreat with this mentoring group I was volunteering with when I lived in New York. They took us all out to the woods outside of the city and we had to build the trust with the kids we were working with by doing the ropes course together! It was insane! I thought I would be fine, but I started climbing up the tree to do my first one and I was bawling! I did make it through and the kid I was mentoring was amazingly helpful and encouraging! It was a great experience and definitely fun for team-building, but probably nothing I would ever want to do again! haha Glad you had fun! 🙂
Asaaaaaaaaaa! Asa Crockett! ROFL Love the shot of him in the ‘coon skin cap! Too cute! Looks like fun! The heights thing would’ve freaked me at first but then I’d have been all about it. 🙂 Looks like a great trip!
That looks like so much fun! We definitely need to go there someday!!
oh my goodness! I love that racoon cap!!!! What a doll!
I love Stone Mountain… So fun! What great memories.
I have some fond childhood memories of Stone Mountain fun- picnics, mini golf, and train rides. And I was always amazed at the laser show. Looks like you had some fun! I probably would have done easy, easy, easy.
Errr, I didn’t see a stroller access so that’s why I wouldn’t do it. Yeah, that ‘s my story and I’m sticking to it!
WHat a nice time for all of you!
Asa has the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever seen – baby model maybe?
What a great family activity! Looks like you all had fun 🙂
great pictures! I love the last two!!!!
This looks like so much fun! Thanks for point me to your post. I can’t wait to go!
Toni-Lynn
i guess i am lucky to live mear stone mountain. you should come in winter because they have ‘snow’ mountain. they take the water from the little pond and turn it into snow. it’s really cool because we almost never get snow (when we do it melts really fast) and now we can play in the snow when ever we want!
glad you had fun!
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