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History. The first form of summer toboggan was the alpine slide, which started in its present form in the 1970s. Josef Wiegand had envisioned the idea of creating a roller coaster ride for ski resorts that would take advantage of the topography of the land, rather than building a structure to create the elevation changes that traditional roller coasters required.
Mieders Summer Toboggan Run. Serlesbahnen. Monorail coaster. The world's steepest alpine coaster with a monorail track, 2.8 kilometres (1.7 mi) long. Imst Alpine Coaster. Imst, Tyrol. Coaster. The world's second longest mountain coaster, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) long. Sommerrodelbahn Pendolino.
The Wave. On July 4, 2007, at 11:00 a.m., a 29-year-old female from Fort Wayne, Indiana, died before collapsing near the edge of The Wave, falling face-down into two inches of water. Lifeguards immediately responded and pulled her out, then attempted to revive her with help from park medical personnel.
Beginning May 24, activities like the Alpine Slide and scenic chairlift rides return for summer operations through Labor Day, then weekends through Oct. 20, weather permitting.
Chair lift to the top of the alpine slide, Action Park, August 1994. The idea for the park began in 1976 when Eugene Mulvihill and his company, Great American Recreation, the owners of the recently combined Vernon Valley/Great Gorge ski area, wanted to find a way to generate revenue during the summer, so they opened a 2,700-foot-long (820 m) alpine slide down one of the steep ski trails.
Mountain Creek is a ski resort in Vernon Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. It is located on New Jersey Route 94 in the New York Metropolitan Area, 47 miles (76 km) from the George Washington Bridge. Mountain Creek contains 167 acres (68 ha) of land for skiing area, night skiing, snowboarding, and snowmaking activities.
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jiminypeak.com. Jiminy Peak is a mid-sized alpine ski resort in the northeastern United States, located in western Massachusetts in the Taconic Mountains at Hancock, northwest of nearby Pittsfield. The summit of Jiminy Peak, which includes the Hendricks Summit Lodge, is located in Lanesborough . The mountain is owned by Och-Ziff Capital ...