This past weekend, I took my Girl Scout troop to a nearby state park to try their skills at the Tuckahoe Challenge Course. The course consists of a 50 foot high rock climbing wall that leads to a 300 foot long zip line, a spring swing that drops a person from a 70 foot height, and a 15 foot high fireman’s pole from which the climber needs to stand and jump to a bar swing in order to get down. My girls, ages 12 to 19, were told that a Boy Scout troop had visited the day before, and only one boy made it over the wall. Of course, this spurred my girls on and laid down the challenge for all of them to do their best to make it over the wall to the zip line on the other side.
Morgan was the first in our troop to attempt the climb. The other 
girls marveled at the way the muscles in her legs bulged as she made her ascent. A couple of times, she lost her grip or became confused about which way to go, but her friends on the ground cheered her on, guided her steps, and encouraged her in her climb. Within about five minutes, Morgan lifted her legs over the wall, stood on the platform on the other side, and looked down triumphantly at the cheering girls below. They all basked in the glow of her achievement. Read more
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