Zippity do dah fun at Sunday River

We went on a winter zipline adventure at Sunday River and had a blast. The kids loved every minute on the course. Our tour guides Jellis, Cassandra and Steve were great and their fun and games (once safety checks were made at each station) made for a fab morning at the mountain.

I'll get to sharing more about the adventure but just had a chance to put together a video of our time on the zipline course. I also took along my GPS unit because recording speed during our winter sports activities has become part of our fun (last winter we clocked 16 mph at Five Fields Farm trails on our cross country skis). We recorded 25.1 mph on the Twin Zips line. No one has felt confident enough to bring along the GPS for downhill skiing yet but we're working up to that... more on that later.

I made an interactive map of the zipline course but I need to note that the course is made up of 6 separate lines in the woods and another set of lines called the Twin Zips at the base. The ziplines are not all connected. Zippers go from point A to point B on one line, disconnect and walk to the next line.

The map says we covered 1.8 miles of terrain during our time on the course but not all of that is hooked up on the lines. Even so, it was a great mix of zipping and walking through the woods on the mountain.

I also need to qualify that our GPS recorded the speeds on each line but that doesn't mean they're precisely accurate for every rider. They are in no way official recordings of this trail. Just our own personal experience on them.

Sunday River's Zipline Course

Anyone ever tried a zipline? They sure are fun, especially during my family's favorite season of the year.