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You are here: Home / FEATURED STORY / The Adventure Guild Holds Ribbon Cutting for Zip Line

The Adventure Guild Holds Ribbon Cutting for Zip Line

August 31, 2018 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

Representatives of the Adventure Guild and city officials gathered at Camp Jordan Park, Thursday afternoon, to cut a ribbon signifying the opening of the new zip line.

The 35-foot tall, 550-foot long zip line is the main attraction  that the Adventure Guild has built on the Northeast quadrant of Camp Jordan. Kim Stock, who along with her husband, Don, own the Adventure Guild, said the zip line will be open to the public on Saturdays. Individuals can brave the zip line for $19.95. If you have a party of four, the price drops to $15.95. It, along with a series of structural features that promote team building, is available for groups like corporations, schools and churches. 

“This is an exciting milestone for us,” said Don Stock. “This will now be home base for our team building.”

The Stocks began building zip lines in upstate New York about 15 years ago. They purchased the Adventure Guild from Mike Pollack and Rob Piper in 2004. The Stocks operate zip lines at Ruby Falls and in St. Augustine, Florida. Kim Stock said Don has built zip lines as far away as Jamaica and Egypt.

Kim Stock said the Adventure Guild’s contract with the City of East Ridge will include the city getting a percentage of the profits from those using the Adventure Guild’s facility. 

“We’re very excited to be able to make this partnership,” Kim Stock said.

Mayor Brent Lambert said the Adventure Guild’s zip line and other amenities will add to the city’s recreational activities in the 270-acre park.

“This will be fantastic,” Lambert said. “Camp Jordan is the biggest draw for our city. This enhances that.”

Lambert said that the zip line will be perfect to fill the down time that sports teams have between games in long tournaments at the park. 

The Stocks said that the zip line and team-building challenge course is just the first phase for the Adventure Guild as it relates to Camp Jordan. Don Stock said the outfit intends to build a series of “high challenge elements” extending back toward Chickamauga Creek.

“We want to make this a destination for our clients,” Stock said. 

The city has committed to spending $118,000 on a paved pathway from the north parking lot to the zip line site. Officials said the path will provide access for emergency vehicles. 

There’s no need for serious concern, however. The Adventure Guild Operations Manager, Phil Davis, said statistically speaking more people sustain injury getting out of their vehicles in the parking lot than on challenge courses like his organization runs.

 

 

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About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.


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