Conquering the Yeti

This past Saturday, Tony, Jen, and John from Soundwave took part in the Expedition Everest Challenge at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida.  The Expedition Everest Challenge is 5K run, Obstacle Course, and Scavenger Hunt all rolled into one event.  It’s an annual event that Walt Disney World hold each year, and this year Soundwave not only conquered the Yeti, they also helped out a great cause.

When Disney holds an athletic event like this, proceeds usually go to one of several non-profits around the world, and this year’s Expedition Everest Challenge helped out the The International Snow Leopard Trust, a non-profit that has been working to protect the endangered snow leopard since 1981. Did you know that there are only 3,500-7,000 snow leopards left in the wild?

Some of the Soundwave runners had not been running in a long time, but were ready to take on the task!  They ran around the parking lot and throughout the theme park, jumping over tires and hay bales and crawling over rope walls and under rope netting.  And that was only the first part!  After all that, everyone headed BACK into Animal Kingdom to begin the scavenger hunt!  It was fun, exciting, and tiring!  But the best part of the night was being able to ride Expedition Everest and Kali River Rapids at night.  Those attractions are amazingly different under the stars!

Congratulations to John, Tony, and Jen on conquering the Challenge as well as helping out the snow leopards.  May you would like to take the Challenge next year?  Let us know and we can secure you place in the Expedition Everest Challenge, and you can try to tame the elusive Yeti…if you dare!!

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• WDW Parkhoppers May 20, 2011 at 9:40 am

  [...] and Sarah ran as a team, followed by Dave and Michelle, and they were also joined by Tony and Jen Casler.  Those names might not be as familiar to loyal Parkhopper readers, but you should be very [...]

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