What does the elephant have to do with challenge courses?
Well, now this is indeed a long story, and one that only Jim Wall can properly recount. However, a slightly less interesting, though basically accurate version of it exists in the summer 2002 Tower Talk newsletter. We’ll send you a copy if you like, but basically, it goes like this: Approaching a tollbooth on his way to build a ropes course, Jim was asked why he had such a big net (cargo net) on his trailer. Jim’s reply? “There’s a big elephant out of the Detroit Zoo, and I have to go catch it!” After Jim had had his fun will tollbooth attendant #1, he discovered upon arriving at the next tollbooth, that his story had apparently been shared; he was waved on through the next few tollbooths. Jim realized that this was the most credibility he’d ever had with a job, so from then on, if he knew that someone would not understand what he really did for a living, he would just claim to be an elephant catcher…MUCH easier, don’t you think? Not everyone knows what a ropes course is, but they su
