Some people are born to run; some are born to scramble up and down walls and ceilings like a Tokay gecko. Unleash your inner lizard with today's Groupon to The Ascent in Murfreesboro. Choose from the following options:
- For $10, you get a day pass with gear rental (a $20 value).
- For $39, you get five day passes with gear rental (a $90 value).
- For $49, you get a one-month family pass with gear, good for up to four members (a $140 value).
Since its opening in August, The Ascent has challenged skyscraping climbers with three stories of paths and an expansive bouldering course. With day passes or family members in hand, visitors slip into harnesses, lace up pairs of climbing shoes, and tie on chalk bags, which are useful for ensuring a firm grip while scrawling the times table on the rock face. Eleven top ropes ascend 32 feet into the air, granting safe passage up crags coated in multicolored handholds and the distinctive footprints of plastic goats. Overhangs and angled walls challenge veterans, along with massive cracks that snake up select routes. Soft flooring and crash pads encircle the network of low-altitude bouldering runs, releasing climbers from dependence on ropes. All surmounters must sign a waiver before hitting the cliffs.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Holiday-Party Games
The holidays are the perfect time to invite guests into your home for a rousing round of party games. Avoid the intense silences and disintegrated friendships that usually follow these competitions with this handy guide:
Musical Chairs
How It's Played: Players take turns as the evening's "musical chair," who sings ballads of woe until all other guests begin to weep. The player who causes the most weeping by volume is crowned the victor.
Winner's Tip: Compose a song that combines the three saddest topics: heartbreak, unwanted diseases, and all wars other than the ancient ones.
Truth or Dare
How It's Played: In a timed essay, players speculate as to the truth of the mysterious disappearance of Virginia Dare, the child-governor of Roanoke Colony.
Winner's Tip: Thrill other players with a twist ending: Virginia Dare is not only still alive … but she died one hundred years ago … tonight!
Charades
How It's Played: Everyone goes about their business, pretending that life isn't just a murky ocean of meaninglessness navigable only by ignoring this distressing reality.
Winner's Tip: Never, ever stop living this charade.
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