Ober Gatlinburg Mountain Top Amusement Park - Alpine Slide / Aerial Tramway / Retro Arcade / SkyRide
A visit to Ober Gatlinburg in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee . High above the town sits this quirky yet amazing amusement park .
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Transcript
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it's good to see you Beauregard the
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Gatlinburg bear I've been in town a
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couple days didn't want to think I
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forgot about you
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so hello and while in this neck of the
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woods today's adventure will take us up
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an aerial tramway to over Gatlinburg a
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theme park if you will in the sky
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featuring among other things an indoor
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ice rink restaurant and lounge and these
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Alpine Slide vehicles oh yeah this is
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gonna be fun there's gonna be lots of
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fun even on the bottom level there is an
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air of serious nostalgia it's like a
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throwback style architecture gonna start
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from this point and make our way up the
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side of the mountain this is a model not
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the real thing
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first things first enter this line for
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tram tickets on display is some of the
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wire ropes used for structural support
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and stability on the way up I feel like
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I've stepped back in time
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just a little bit I think I can I can
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hear the mechanisms at work it's it's
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almost time located near the ceiling
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line is this overview a map kind of
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showing the general layout of the land
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PVC pipes for the stanchions right there
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that's solid boarding is just about
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complete just waiting on me I got to get
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on there and then we're off to the top
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and it's going to pop a little coming
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out down and flying stop going over
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towers this 2.1 miles up at 15 miles an
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hour and we'll be there about 10 minutes
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I hope you enjoyed right and thank you
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very much for coming over Gatlinburg
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with you you'll appreciate there are two
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of the most modern trams in America each
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able to carry a 120 passengers and
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operator to your left is the entrance to
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the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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that's because of that house is on solid
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ground restaurant so to beans and it is
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referred as the powder of Dunkin Donuts
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had that built in the early 70s and it
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was one of the first places built the
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showing Village area and at that time
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this was a private club
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area and they had to be a member of that
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Club in order to build up in here and
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that was before they had not be rivals
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yeah there's the Destiny don't house
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that's a replica of the 1973 Barbie
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Dreamhouse and that was big a few years
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ago just like it was it's not like one
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of us kind in a while or weather
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permitting outdoor activities including
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three water rides and out
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slide kidding Lander rides whoo
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mini-golf and a climbing wall visit
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Claire's
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otters bobcats and other animals native
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to the some of these that are wildlife
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encounter inside the mountain mall enjoy
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carousel arcade games we make shopping
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eateries and a fudge shop with free
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samples of homemade fun on the second
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level is the seasonal uber restaurant in
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the long run
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the menus feature a variety of entrees
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and your favorite beverages for lunch or
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dinner in a natural setting thank you
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for stepping aboard the aerial tram line
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and we hope you enjoyed the ride through
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the skies if you have more questions
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please see the information booth after
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you exit well know what your wristbands
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you'll need to go back down and reviewed
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for two days
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our last 20 bound is at 9:20 p.m. we're
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currently on a 20-minute schedule so we
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pulled out the dark at the top of the
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hour 20 after and 22 because it will win
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for us our doors please watch step 4 now
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the tram they will move a little reach
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the drop-off point we made it this is
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not the final destination however I have
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a ski lift to attend friendly Dino is
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trying to instruct everyone where the
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fire extinguisher is and down the hall
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this pattern on the ground is pretty
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fantastic and look up top if that would
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work on the on the ceiling now there is
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a lot to do in that building that I will
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come back to but I got to keep going up
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up up up up and away for now to the
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tippy top of that peak take this lift to
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the Alpine Slide and the scenic overlook
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as the mechanism spins around this is
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showing what the views
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from the top of the chairlift will look
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like once I'm up there
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doubles only I guess I gotta find a
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riding partner I have my ticket and I
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know not to bounce in the chairs I just
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need to find a I just need to find my
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double
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welcome everyone Adam of the whoo here
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with Jacob the carpetbagger hey Ron
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you're one of the few people who know my
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obsession yes yes with Skylar who I ride
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type of activities we've been on many
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many a ski lifts together we have shared
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many a seats cruising up the side of
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mountains and this is no I'm inviting
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you to join me and Jacob as the Alpine
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slider go by are you afraid of heights
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no I used to be but then I wrote a bunch
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of ski lifts and now I'm over it they're
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gonna say I'm inviting you to join me
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shall you you didn't say it is a join me
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shall you yes
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join me again join us join join me shall
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you notice there are two separate pieces
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of mechanical goodness going up this
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elevated area the one on the left and
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the one on the right I believe the one
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on the right is a little bit older more
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antique but still tickin very quiet and
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serene with the exception of the
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creaking Mecca no oh it's very bumpy
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bumpy just when you go over those little
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thresholds than that though not too bad
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I hear the birds not chirping and you
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can hear the insects making noise
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do we get off here we're going all the
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way up hammock tannoy yeah you get this
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little platform even toys got a rule I
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think it's yes as far as far as you know
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yes yes it was one thing I like about
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this particular one as opposed to some
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of the other ones in this area is how
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high up above the ground you go not just
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the length all the way to the top but
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how far away from the ground up word you
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are really adds to the ambience of the
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mechanical noises
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that chair was growling being alerted
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that a photo will be digitally taken at
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the next tower pose however you want for
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optimum photo please remove hats best
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remove them smile wave pose or kiss your
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next we're next
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I don't think I don't think we should
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kiss let's not kiss let's just smile
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away waiting for the flash where's the
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flash
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where's the flat air it is don't be shy
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don't be shy the camera will not bite
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separate okay go to the right yeah I'm
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gonna let that one to the left I got
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this little guide rope three thousand
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five hundred and ninety feet that would
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have been quite a hike much easier the
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route that we chose place a quarter and
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you can see off in the distance through
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this viewfinder this is an interesting
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one color blind version the viewer is
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outfitted by the state of Tennessee with
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an innovative lens designed to alleviate
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red-green color blindness this water is
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not for consumption or washing but if
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you need to wet your whistle they do
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have a little snack bar over there also
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the spot where you pick up your
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chairlift momenta for fifteen dollars
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walked away with a a little memento and
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they seem kind of a little pricey but in
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all honesty for a tourist attraction
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they're usually a little more so not too
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bad of a deal plus it comes with this
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very fancy overlay booklet
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thank you welcome to my Harris and I
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hope everyone out there is enjoying
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their day at over Gatlinburg we are
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mountain grass my name is Charlie Brown
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it's carbon dating there on the banjo
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and Gary Moore yeah over there on the
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upright bass we are from Maryland how
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about you mrs. North Carolina California
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okay I hope everybody's safe and
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everything's great when you get back
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home guys I know it's getting crazy over
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on the East Coast our prayers are with
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you if you from California and I am yes
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sir we don't get a lot of chances to do
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this song because we don't get a lot of
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people from California up here but we
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take advantage of it when we get to
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chance so here's our California zone for
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you buddy
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while the first thing no kids a
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millionaire can change heading back down
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I got myself a little shout out wasn't
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expecting that they probably don't get
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too many people from California
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out here well maybe they do maybe they
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play that song more often I think they
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do I still feel special is it possible
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to not swing your feet on one of these
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it's kind of like the got like a the
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thing to do is just swing the feet
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so quiet you can hear stuff off in the
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background but through this little tree
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thoroughfare peacefulness over loud
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stop just a bit just kind of teetering
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here okay moving again moving again I
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know I'm showing a lot of long drawn-out
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shots of these experiences but it's just
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too cool not to leave it all in so nice
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up here this is normally this is that
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now this is the platform where you could
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get off to ride the Alpine Slide
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unfortunately you can't get off coming
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down you have to get up coming up so we
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have to go all the way back down get
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back on and right half way back up do it
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as Jacob just stated to go back up to
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the Alpine Slide we have to go to the
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bottom and then reboard those chairs
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okay I stand corrected
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the older lifts is just to take the
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sleds up and down there are no guests
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allowed on them they just those are used
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for the sleds because they're a little
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more a little more old-school so I don't
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know if bodyweight can be held
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okay going back halfway up okay do it do
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it make the noise it's a very peaceful
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stream down there that's gonna be me
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very soon very very soon another guest
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is heading down heading down the hill I
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am soon to follow
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states to unload here this is where we
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get off the halfway point to the
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pinnacle we were out a little before but
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we're about to exit we're getting off
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here they raised the bar okay
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and go ahead thank you
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turnstile
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that was more intense than I thought was
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anything I gave my abs a workout thank
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you always want to follow the
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instructions for safety do not touch the
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track with your hands who file sliding
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and don't step on it
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now that we're back on the middle level
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it can pay attention to this old aerial
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tram that's been converted to a snack
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bar
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giant human maze oh don't mind if I do
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whoa this is gonna be a lot tougher than
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I expected it is very expansive touch in
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the clock we're on the time on the head
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we have eight minutes do this if to take
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the carts a scavenger hunt you have to
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punch em a Z e before completion if we
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do it under a certain amount of time we
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get a prize
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it's hurry I feel like are you going
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this way I don't know which way we
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should be is it I think we came in this
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is the way we came in its way to camp
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this way this way this way
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we got a hurry that we got a hurry okay
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now we're at another crossroad cat's
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emergency exit don't want to go that way
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just realize we're not very good at this
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we are we have not gotten one item okay
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wait I have a good feeling I have a good
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feeling I have a pair right here right
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here M and M the M punch it we left part
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of the path leads up to another overlook
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right gosh I just cannot find the other
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three letter not as easy as it looks way
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too many options got the a alright two
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more no there is a difference between a
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maze and elaborate labyrinths will be
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much easier because elaborate there's a
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starting point and ending point and
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there's no there's no dead end some maze
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you don't know what's gonna happen I
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have a good feeling about oh there's yep
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there's the Z Clampett guess what Jacob
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II the final puzzle piece clamp clamp it
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all right just like The Beverly
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Hillbillies and finally I think this is
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this is the out this is the exit yes yes
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whoo toasty 19 minutes and the blazing
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hot Tennessee Sun and with a time score
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like that not eligible for any of these
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prizes now it does snow here
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unfortunately not in early September it
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is warm doesn't this place just scream
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1980s feels good to be in the AC though
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the nice coolness off the ice rink
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freezing up bumper boats but in set up
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water it's on ice one thing you'll
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definitely find our retro video games of
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plenty up here on the top floor you
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cannot shoot hoops into a shoe this this
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one's out of order but still pretty cool
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to look at this has so much age on it in
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fact both coca-cola logos are being
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utilized classic and New Coke this must
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have been from the 80s
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therefore the blue duck
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he wanted he wanted a blue duck he's
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never seen a blue duck before
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what just happened I know you have
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workers are you got this Jacob
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precision skill I see the two horses
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those makes sense that we're both
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wondering what animal is the third on
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the spinning we're too heavy for this so
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just put a quarter in to watch them spin
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but what is that we're both completely
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enamored by what sort of creature that
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is this one's also out of order but
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looks rather fantastic set of shooting
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hoops with the basketball
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if you throw a football through those
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holes and the top one has duct tape all
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around it seen some years keeping up
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with the retro theme
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here's lots of units that you see in
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front of grocery stores back in the day
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Barney Tom and Jerry are inviting you to
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take a ride also up here is the Smoky
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Mountain wildlife encounter their goal
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is to provide a home for injured and
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non-releasable native wildlife and to
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give guests an opportunity to see and
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learn about many of the animals found in
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these mountains there are a series of
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feedings that take place you might even
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be able to catch one while we're in this
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section this might be really the only
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time we're going to get a you're gonna
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get a shot of the Otters sitting still
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because once the food starts getting
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tossed around they're going to grab it
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and go
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Fatiha od that is Coolio
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Cujo come on oh hey
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how do you get the name Cujo which one's
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Cujo right here oh D that's my little
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hairy
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Oh
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I read about him
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I think they're sleeping
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this little gazebo has some signage
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stating be crossing it's a real beehive
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of activity in there I'm gonna let them
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have their privacy close this back close
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that back I just like do their thing
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even the building itself is on a little
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bit of a slant probably inform with the
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mountain range itself wristband prices
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for all the activities can be seen here
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posted just keep in mind that if there
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is inclement weather some of the
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attractions might be shut down for
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safety reasons and of course when winter
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approaches there are lots of other
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activities in the snow however those
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don't happen for a couple more months
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right now it's the end of summer time to
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start making our way back down and
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descending
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minutes to get back down the mountain we
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will get some air we're gonna go through
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our first tower right here what I like
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to call our slingshots out
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leave all those scraps too hard those do
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deploy the parachute in case we do drop
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just joking everybody these three cables
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can hold over a million pound it would
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take all three of them breaking at the
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same time or across the hall
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they want to let go up even though
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underground first meeting backup
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mandolin or other tram go over the
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tallest tower
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where the earth meets the sky
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construction started on the tramway back
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in September of 1972 and it began
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operating in August 5th the following
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year the cables used to pull and
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stabilize eleven thousand four hundred
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feet long on each side six hundred and
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fifty people per hour and be taken to
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the top this transported over 20 million
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passengers since it opened the alpine
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slide was built in 1976 I did that too
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that old-school view of the parkway with
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that kind of like a wooden sign at the
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entryway on the bottom level
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as the next one begins to take off and
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go up we're going to get a little
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behind-the-scenes by heading into the
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basement of the ticket stand on the
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bottom level all you have to do is just
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follow the corridor down and once you're
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down there you can see kind of how the
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magic works a little
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a little room that shows the motor and
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the system that launches that thing up
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the hill those big wheels spinning the
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cable around and there's two cars so
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when the cars meet in the middle that is
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the halfway point one car cannot leave
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before the other car leaves they go
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simultaneously up and down pretty neat
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how it all transpires
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while the cable
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almost hypnotized
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