Friday October 13th, Antioch Community High School’s very own Adventure Ed went on a field trip to the Lake Geneva Canopy Tours to experience the high ropes and engage in team building activities. This trip is one of the many that the group will go on throughout the year.

The Lake Geneva Canopy Tour includes multiple excursions, such as ziplining through the canopies, rope courses, hiking and biking. This year, Adventure Ed tackled a ropes course.

While on this field trip, the group spent hours on the ropes course. The course has multiple activities, each meant to challenge the students   both mentally and physically.

Junior Kameron Jones is always eager to participate in Adventure Ed because of the new experiences along the way.

“People should join Adventure Ed because you get to learn so many new things and work with people you didn’t think you’d ever work with,” Jones said.

While up in the ropes they engaged in activities like having to place planks down and walk across them to the other side. The challenging part for the Sequoits was balancing on the boards as a class.

The class usually to attends the program ran at Camp Peacock in Lindenhurst each year to take on more adventures. Most days, they leave for camp and head straight to the rock climbing wall to start working. While at the walls they perform different activities ranging in difficulty, including a two person climb on an uneven ladder.

Some of the other activities that they go on throughout the year include kayaking, canoeing, fishing, rock climbing, high ropes, team building, mountain biking, fire starting, campfire cooking, skiing, winter shelter building, sledding, sailing and white water rafting.

This is the fourth year that Adventure Ed has been offered to upperclassmen as a physical education credit. The class is offered twice a day during periods 4 through 6.

Some may say that this gym class is for students to slack off in and get an easy credit, but the mentally and physically demanding events allow students to experience opportunities that aren’t offered in other gym classes.

While talking to Physical Education and Adventure Education teacher Gregg Henning, he talked about how Adventure Ed is not only a class where you get to find your physical strengths, but also a class where you can open up to those who are there to aid you on this adventure.

“I believe that this class gets students to open up and trust others that they might have never thought they would trust with their lives,” said Henning.

This class has so much to offer and has open spots. Joining Adventure Ed is one great adventure that shouldn’t be passed up.