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The Alpine slide, for which the park is named, has riders go down one of two 0.25 mi (0.40 km) cement slides on wheeled sleds. The Mineshaft Coaster is approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) long and lasts 7 to 9 minutes, peaking at 30 mph (48 km/h). [5] [6] The track includes hairpin turns, tunnels, and corkscrew turns that are built into the mountain ...
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Verrückt was designed by Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeff Henry as a three-person raft slide with an uphill section. The initial drop was a 17-story plunge with a five-story uphill section. At 168 feet 7 inches (51.38 m), [ 4 ] the starting point was taller than Niagara Falls [ 5 ] and reached a maximum speed of 65 miles per hour (105 km/h).
Rhine cutting through Flims rockslide debris. The Flims rockslide happened about 10,000 years ago (8000 BC) in eastern Switzerland. It is the largest known landslide in the Alps, [1] [2] and the biggest worldwide whose effects are still visible, moving some 12 km 3 (2.9 cu mi) of rock, about 300 times that of the historic Swiss Goldau landslide.
Regent’s Slide on Highway 1. This map shows the location of the Regent’s Slide along the Big Sur Coast, including the surrounding areas like Santa Cruz, Monterey, Cambria, and San Luis Obispo.
Added another, “It drives me crazy when moms let kids do this because when my kids waited patiently to go down, those kids were always in the way.” Other responses included, “selfish and ...
The water slide was spontaneously conceived by Henry at a trade show after a team from Travel Channel's Xtreme Waterparks asked what he was working on. [8] Initial attempts to pitch the idea to vendors at the show failed, [ 2 ] so Henry decided to build the slide himself, [ 9 ] enlisting John Schooley as the ride's lead designer.
The West Salt Creek landslide (also known as the Grand Mesa landslide or West Salt Creek rock avalanche) occurred on the evening of May 25, 2014 near Collbran, Colorado, along the north side of the Grand Mesa, about 30 miles (48 km) east of Grand Junction. It was the largest landslide in Colorado's history.