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I just found the perfect get-away vacation package for us. Great Mountain Retreats has 4 different packages ranging from $54-$69. Packages vary but basically, a package offers a 3-hour experience designed not to scare, but to excite you with smooth gliding. You're provided with helmets, body harness, trolley, gloves, tether lines and two, not just one, two canopy rangers. You get 1/2 mile of air time with 3 sky bridges, 5 transfers bridges, 11 zip lines alternating between slope side, trees, elevated platforms, a helicopter hoist up into the Triceratops platform with your finish zip 1200' long and 120' high. If we wait until August, there will be 5 additional zips and several sky bridges soaring above waterfalls and landing 40' up on a rock wall deck. Fliers must be able to raise their arms overhead to self regulate speed and braking. I told Cliff this is the vacation we've been looking for. He told me he would drive me there and take pictures of me for the blog......................

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ralph said…
them people are crazy-nuts! i've got three over-tired kids who would be GREAT at this - whether they like it or not! grrrr.
August 3, 2010 at 11:56 AM
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