The Darby Queen is the obstacle course at Ranger School. Mr. L has gone through it recently in the first phase of Ranger School and he's now in the third phase!! They opened up Camp Darby for a 5k, 10k, and 30k, then opened up the course for us to try. They had spotters and most of the elements were the easier ones. The high ones were closed for us. And were super hard!! I can't imagine doing this with no sleep, no food, and so much pressure to finish. Not to mention NO HARNESSES and no gloves on the rope ones!! Crazy guys!
Us heading for the start of the course.
Crazy inverted ladder... I didn't try the face first option but these girls did.
Traversing a double cable.
Sorry it's out of order but this is before we started...
Monkey bars!
Army crawling under barbed wire. Yes we crawled and it was dirty! At Ranger School, they fill it with water and you have to crawl through in the mud!
You can see me taking it easy in the back, and Mrs. M over there hopping over like you're supposed to :)
Miss W. on the monkey bars.
Had to post for her crazy face!!
On this one you had to run and jump to grab the rope and swing over the cross beam. It was totally easier than it looked.
This one was crazy. I had a hurt ankle so I was pretty tired by this point. The beams get further and further apart and you have to go up one side, flip over the yellow one, then go down the back side. These girls made me nervous!
These were posts that stuck up out of the ground and you had to hop from post to post to make it across the area without touching the ground.
Me tackling the rope crawl :)
We didn't do this one because after the 5k and all the others we were pretty tired. I almost did but I decided I better save the ankle! It was such a fun day and so cool to see all the crazy stuff Mr. L just went through a few months ago. I'm so proud of him and keeping my fingers crossed he graduates in less than 2 weeks!!! Rangers Lead the Way!!!
Us heading for the start of the course.
Crazy inverted ladder... I didn't try the face first option but these girls did.
Traversing a double cable.
Sorry it's out of order but this is before we started...
Monkey bars!
Army crawling under barbed wire. Yes we crawled and it was dirty! At Ranger School, they fill it with water and you have to crawl through in the mud!
You can see me taking it easy in the back, and Mrs. M over there hopping over like you're supposed to :)
Miss W. on the monkey bars.
Had to post for her crazy face!!
On this one you had to run and jump to grab the rope and swing over the cross beam. It was totally easier than it looked.
This one was crazy. I had a hurt ankle so I was pretty tired by this point. The beams get further and further apart and you have to go up one side, flip over the yellow one, then go down the back side. These girls made me nervous!
These were posts that stuck up out of the ground and you had to hop from post to post to make it across the area without touching the ground.
Me tackling the rope crawl :)
We didn't do this one because after the 5k and all the others we were pretty tired. I almost did but I decided I better save the ankle! It was such a fun day and so cool to see all the crazy stuff Mr. L just went through a few months ago. I'm so proud of him and keeping my fingers crossed he graduates in less than 2 weeks!!! Rangers Lead the Way!!!
