General:
The tram cable rollers are spaced at two levels on the towers which were installed from helicopters so as not to  disturb the plants around them.  On the ride out, the tram travels near the forest floor for a good view of the plants and (sometimes) animals.  The light on the forest floor is so dim, it's hard to take photographs.  The trip back is at a much higher level where we mostly traveled along the forest canopy.   At the end of the tram ride, we had a nice lunch and then took a hike through part of the rain forest for some interesting sights.

• Garmin track of the drive over the Continental Divide from InBio to the Rain-Forest Tram.
• CenRut map showing the GPS losing lock in the deep canyons. Contour lines superimposed on road map with PhotoShop.
• The Magellan track on the contours indicates a maximum of about 5,200 feet.

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• Tram entrance
• Tram car "in flight".
• The guide sits in the "back seat".

• Plants along the forest floor.
• A narrow cut for the tram travel
• Another car follows.

• On the way back, we are looking  at the top of the forest canopy.
• In the third frame is an example of a tree plant that drops its roots down for 100 feet or more.

• A buffet lunch at the end of the tram ride.
• The Greens and the Yeazels.
• The Guehlers

• Interesting red flower during a walk through the rain Forest.
• Leaf-cutter ants traveling along the forest floor to their ant hill.
• Leaf-cutter ant hill -about 5 feet tall!  The ants have to gather about 25 pounds of leafs a day to make a fungus that they can eat.  See:  http://www.blueboard.com/leafcutters/what.htm

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• This plant mimics a predator that likes to eat a bug that likes to eat the plant!
• The incredible Walking Tree which can move up to 3cm a year to find more sunlight in the rain forest by adding and subtracting roots.
• Tram car making a "U-turn" at the lower end.