MOUNTAIN LIFE - Blue Mountains | Summer 2018

SUMMER 2018 ML BLUE 57 29 Founded in 2001, Treetop Trekking presented a largely unknown pastime at its first park in Rawdon, Quebec. Here was a new kind of adventure park, perched way up in the tree canopy—which Canada could offer plenty of—where you climbed over aerial courses and zip-lined from tree to tree like a flying squirrel. All the while, harnesses kept you safe. The 10 Treetop Trekking locations in Ontario and Quebec offer various courses with suspended bridges, Tarzan swings, swinging logs, cable traverses, thousands of feet of zip lines and more. Treetop Trekking Brampton operates a Zip Line and Aerial Game Trek Park as well as the Redtailed Hawk Treetop Canopy Tour where you cross stable bridges to a series of observation platforms up to 60 feet in the air. (A less physically demanding option than the zip lines and aerial game trek.) Keeners can combine this with the Great Blue Heron Standalone Zip Line Ride over Heart Lake for a two-hour adventure. Diehards can make it a stirring three-hour epic by tackling the zip lines and the Aerial Game Trek Park as well. All told, the Brampton park offers five aerial courses, including seven zip lines and over 65 aerial games. You can choose from four beginner/intermediate courses and one advanced course. Clearly, the canopy is calling. DIY: treetoptrekking.com/parks/brampton FULL DAY TRIPS Treetop Trekking Brampton Back in 2001, this was a new idea—climbing over aerial courses and zip-lining from tree to tree like a flying squirrel… COURTESY TREETOP TREKKING