title	Qualcomm Cambridge "Go Ape", High Lodge, Thetford Forest - 27th July 2006
intro	To celebrate getting a bunch of software out of the door, a corporate gig is arranged at Go Ape in the depths of Thetford Forest near Brandon. This mostly involves high-wire stuff between tree-tops, climbing up wobbly rope ladders, Tarzan leaps (of faith) and exhilirating slides along several zip wires of various lengths. The event is nearly stopped before it even starts, as thunderstorms threaten to let loose in the area and we're in danger of being struck by lightning, what with being up talls trees and everything. However, the weather temporarily moves on so tree-climbing commences. It's pretty humid, hard work and some of the routes are frankly quite scary - crossing a single steel wire between two trees, 12 metres up in the air, for example - but it is pretty cool coming back down the long slides at the end of each stage. Following these arboreal antics, there's a barbeque which finishes just in time for a torrential downpour - a resumption of the UK's monsoon season, following a few-week hiatus in favour of uncommonly hot weather.
imgp5199	The team get harnessed up in the rain
imgp5202	A somewhat-sodden Leon
imgp5203	Getting used to the harnesses
imgp5204	Martin "pirate" D stands out in bright orange
imgp5206	Julian wonders what all the bits of rope do
imgp5207	An ape sculpture has a bottle of water on its head
imgp5212	Craig grabs a rope
imgp5214	Dave B on a wire
imgp5220	Dave and a trainer
imgp5222	Dave slides down
imgp5224	Craig on a zipwire
imgp5234b	Francis contemplates a huge Tarzan leap
imgp5241	The relief on Francis' face is palpable
imgp5245	Francis takes a photo
imgp5247	Leon with a camera
imgp5249	Isobel makes it into the cargo net
imgp5255	More Tarzan swing action
imgp5258	Liam comes in to land
imgp5266	Amongst the trees
imgp5275	Stef lands and gives it the wild horse-eye look
imgp5276	Nick B makes a pretty good running-stop landing
imgp5291	Isobel comes in to land
imgp5303	Julian unclips
imgp5330	Francis gets off the final slide
imgp5331	Barbequed burgers
imgp5333	Marc Nijdam manage the burgers
imgp5334	Tim Simpson pokes a sausage
imgp5337	Tim flips burgers
imgp5341	Martin, Erica and Craig mill about
imgp5342	Tim roams about
imgp5349	Lucy and Marc
imgp5350	A burger is plucked from the fire
imgp5357	A wave from the barbeque gang