LAST EDITED ON 03-16-06 AT 12:29 PM (EST)

>The lack of anything to catch them if they fall leads me to believe that this is not a balance thing that they could fall off of.

I agree, it seems like a long way to fall. Could it be that there is a water-filled pit at the bottom of the ladders? (You know, how when you are digging a hole at the beach and it just fills up with water from the water table) Didn't we see a chest-high water-filled pit in a previous challenge? I vaguely remember a cap with Cerie and maybe Shane in a mucky pit trying to limbo underneath something? Not sure.

Other thing about those pix that perplexes me is the way the ladders look. It's clear that the tops of the ladders are behind the beam, so you'd think that the ladders are sort of leaning toward us to rest on the beams. But then each ladder also has a v-shaped supporting bracket behind it, so that makes it seem like the ladders are not able to LEAN against the beam -- they need something leaning against THEM to prop them against the beam. This may support the idea of there being a dug-out trench at the foot of the ladders (the ladders have to be pretty much straight up-and-down to make room for the pit, so those v-shaped brackets are temporarily holding the ladders in place?).

What do you guys think?

ETA: Are we sure that the woman in the foreground of the Aras/Terry struggle is Courtney? The hair looks longer and smoother, like Danielle's, and it is a low ponytail that we've seen Danielle wear (whereas Courtney tends to have spiky stuff sticking out everywhere). Yeah it looks quite blonde like Courtney but lately we've been remarking on Danielle's natural highlights, and maybe if this cap is from a few eps out, she looks a lot blonder than she does now. The beards on the guys seem darker, maybe? I dunno. I will go look at it from the other side too.

saucydiva