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Emile

(43,265 posts) Fri Oct 20, 2023, 08:44 AM Oct 2023

Alpine Coaster No Brakes

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Alpine Coaster No Brakes (Original Post) Emile Oct 2023 OP

Looks like fun SouthernDem4ever Oct 2023 #1

I wonder how they get the carts back Emile Oct 2023 #2

That would be fun! 2naSalit Oct 2023 #3

Fun stuff k55f5r Oct 2023 #4

This style is unsafe pfitz59 Oct 2023 #5

SouthernDem4ever

(6,619 posts)

1. Looks like fun

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 08:51 AM

Oct 2023

Other than the side to side banging on some of those curves. You could hear the rider grunt on those lol.

Emile

(43,265 posts)

2. I wonder how they get the carts back

Reply to SouthernDem4ever (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 09:10 AM

Oct 2023

on top the mountain. That's a long way down the mountain.

2naSalit

(103,809 posts)

3. That would be fun!

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 09:48 AM

Oct 2023

It looks a LOT like a trail I used to ski often.

k55f5r

(525 posts)

4. Fun stuff

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 11:09 AM

Oct 2023

I rode the Alpine coaster at Mountain Meadows on Mt. Hood in Oregon ?20? yrs ago, and while getting up to speed near the top I was looking ahead at the track below and saw a 'sled' take off of the track into the large rocks. I rode by too fast to discern details, but warned the attendant at the end of the ride that the sled ahead of me didn't make it. Here's a video of the slide, but not the accident that I saw.

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pfitz59

(12,926 posts)

5. This style is unsafe

Reply to k55f5r (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 02:25 PM

Oct 2023

rail types are locked on the track

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