Archive: Sat 23 May 2009

Rain rain rain. No let up. Rain.
Every one got caught out this time, even the farmers.

Everything. Is. Wet.

On the bright side the lake is full and the people keep turning up: full on holiday season now with the car park rammo and our working lives filled with amazing crazy people from far and wide all wanting to jump off the cliff. I love it.

We get to see kids running up to the viewing deck and then stopping dead in their tracks when they see the view right across the lake. Gets them every time. From reception you see the childrens faces in profile as they leg it up the ramp. Hilarious.

How much more rain can there be up there? It's August and still raining - can't really get my head round that at all. We have uniform T shirts now, yellow or black. I think they look really swish but then I would wouldn't I? They've had a good soaking since we got them. The Zip Crew are out in the weather all the time, it gets good and windy on the launch deck and if you get soaked uo there you can get cold really quick. When your fingers get cold it's hard to open the karabiners, we use trilocks that are so safe it's hard to get them open anyway, let alone when you're cold. You have to lift, rotate and then pull back the gate to open the karibiner and when you let go the sprung gaet snaps shut. We use them all the way through the system for people, and use conventional screwgates for everything else.

It's working well.