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My daughter started the ropes course at Wolf Ridge with ease, but was fully panicked by the time she got to the finale, a zipline. Christa Lawler/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS
FINLAND, MINN.—My 10-year-old daughter was stuck on a tower 30 feet in the air, crying and shaking. She had already conquered a series of ropes course obstacles, growing shakier and weepier with each skootch across thin wires and tiptoe over rounded logs.