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Title: Park City Utah Alpine Coaster
Post by: WadeJ on January 31, 2010, 08:08:38 PM

This was last month and I just now realized I never posted these pics.  They were all taken from my phone and it was about 0 outside so sorry about the photo quality :).

Anyway, on my way back to Salt Lake City airport to fly home, I realized I didn't have enough time to ski.  However, I did recall hearing something about an alpine coaster so I had to check it out.  WOW was I happy I stopped by  ;D.  Besides the fact that it was on a huge mountain, i couldn't get over the fact that you could basically kill yourself very easily if you were to push it too far.  Going up there were 3 cable lifts.  They would zigzag you to avoid having the lift be too steep.  On the way down there were 3 helix that were just insane.  I struggled with all my strength to not get ripped out of my seat.  And there were several insane pops of crazy airtime on the straight sections.  By the time I got to the bottom I felt like I conquered something that was twice as scary as any coaster I've ever been on.  And yes, I'm counting it as a credit :D.

Here are the pictures:

Title: Re: Park City Utah Alpine Coaster
Post by: rjholla2003 on January 31, 2010, 09:34:22 PM

That looks...NUTS! I wanna ride!

Title: Re: Park City Utah Alpine Coaster
Post by: nitrorox1414 on January 31, 2010, 10:56:17 PM

That does look pretty cool!

Title: Re: Park City Utah Alpine Coaster
Post by: Millennium Force 44 on February 01, 2010, 01:37:37 AM

sounds awesome! would you do it again or was it too scary?

Title: Re: Park City Utah Alpine Coaster
Post by: coastermom on February 01, 2010, 06:01:08 AM

Looks very cool ....

Title: Re: Park City Utah Alpine Coaster
Post by: coastersue on February 01, 2010, 07:26:53 AM

I don't know if they're quite the same layouts, but there are 2 of them closer to here.  One is at Jiminy Peak in MA and the other is at a ski resort in MD whose name is escaping me right now.

Title: Re: Park City Utah Alpine Coaster
Post by: AV Matt on February 01, 2010, 12:33:02 PM

Wisp Resort in NW Maryland.

Title: Re: Park City Utah Alpine Coaster
Post by: PcMan on February 01, 2010, 02:16:57 PM

WOW the 3rd pic down looks scary
but I'm sure was a blast
nice pics

Title: Re: Park City Utah Alpine Coaster
Post by: Bubba Z on February 01, 2010, 07:30:44 PM

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