2-mile-long zip line debuts at Sundance


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SUNDANCE — The ski resorts have finally closed for the winter season and now they're preparing for their summertime activities. On Friday, the Sundance Resort opened its monster-size zip line.

It's one of the longest in the nation. It is nearly two-miles long top to bottom, dropping about 2,100 feet in elevation.

“This is the third longest zip tour or zip line in the country,” Chad Linebaugh, general manager at Sundance, said.

The Sundance "Ziptour" has been in the works for about three years. It heads down the mountain in four segments.

You can hit speeds as high as 70 miles per hour.

“The zip line goes into areas where the chairlift doesn't obviously, so the views that you get and the perspective you get of the surrounding valleys, Mount Timpanogos is something you can't get any other way,” Linebaugh said.

Riders get a brief tutorial to learn how the equipment works and then practice on a short line on the mountainside before taking the big plunge.

"It's also the highest off the ground point of any zip line. You're 500 feet off the ground on one of the spots,” Linebaugh said.

Sundance's new Ziptour is open seven days a week, and the resort is expecting as many as 30,000 people to ride it this summer. The cost is $49 per adult for the basic package, and $89 per adult for the full two-mile package.

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