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Summer Vacations With an Edge: Zip Lining in Texas

Where: 1223 Paleface RR [map], Spicewood, TX, United States, 78669
July 9, 2007 at 9:16 AM | by | Comments (2)

People have done some pretty stupid things when trying to simulate flight. They've stepped off buildings wearing homemade wings, driven cars over ramps, and gone naked skydiving (and no, we're not giving you picture links for that one). Here's a better, safer, and more respectable way to fly through the air: zip lining. Attached by a harness to a wire, you zoom over trees, gigantic ravines and the like.

Now, to bring zip lining to the next level, we recommend Cypress Valley Canopy Tours in Spicewood, Texas (just outside of Austin). Their Canopy Challenge course is so difficult that they require you to undergo a strength test during orientation to make sure you won't, you know, lose your grip and fall to your death. It's totally worth it -- doing the course, we mean, not falling to your death -- but you might want to start doing some push ups now, just in case.

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zip line challenge course in East Texas

Zip lines are a blast and there is a new one in Canton, Texas. It's called WIRED and it's one mile south of Interstate 20 right on Hwy 19. It's got 4 really long zip lines with the longest one being around 1000 feet. Towers with connecting rope bridges offer another challenge element. Check them out on the web at www.ziptheusa.com
Shudderspeed on December 21, 2008 at 8:51 PM #Permalink

from Canton, TX

I am from Canton and saw these ziplines while home for the holidays. I am so glad that Mr.Lewis finally decided to do something with that old land. It looks good, no one would know that it used to be a landfill. We used to play in all the stuff as little kids looking for buried treasure. Who would know that it would turn into an amusement park like thing. I have never zip lined and they look way too high and swaying for me. Looks like a kid thing. For myself, I will stick to flea markets. Isn't that what Canton is known for anyway?
flea market junkie on December 30, 2008 at 12:59 AM #Permalink
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