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Old 05-31-2011, 09:33 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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"The French Broad River is becoming the site of East Tennessee's newest adventure attraction. Developer Sterling Webb is building a zipline that will cross the river in Sevierville, next to Highway 66. The new zipline will have four cables, meaning four people can ride it across at once. It will also be the longest line in East Tennessee."

Zipline attraction to span French Broad river in East TN | wbir.com

I must confess I had no idea what a zipline was and had to look it up after reading this article. Is anyone excited about this?
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Old 05-31-2011, 10:47 AM
 
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"The French Broad River is becoming the site of East Tennessee's newest adventure attraction. Developer Sterling Webb is building a zipline that will cross the river in Sevierville, next to Highway 66. The new zipline will have four cables, meaning four people can ride it across at once. It will also be the longest line in East Tennessee."

Zipline attraction to span French Broad river in East TN | wbir.com

I must confess I had no idea what a zipline was and had to look it up after reading this article. Is anyone excited about this?
Makes me think of an older John Denver song lyric, "more people, more scars upon the land."
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Old 05-31-2011, 11:26 AM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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There are already three of those type of places in the area plus a very, very popular one at Dollywood. The one at her theme park you have to pay extra to do. I haven't done it but I've seen where it goes and it's incredible.

He's saying his is the longest. Well, okay. But it's not really a new concept around here. I think they came on the scene more than a few years ago, but I'm not certain.

Edit: I see he owns one of the ziplines already in place. He got himself a nice little piece of publicity from WBIR. New outlets are incredibly lazy now. In my day - I now sound like my grandparents! - that would have been tossed in the trash.
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Old 05-31-2011, 06:41 PM
 
Location: Knoxville, Tn
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Sounds fun.. i have done zip lines in Canada at Whistler-Blackcomb and in Hawaii.. they are a blast
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Old 06-03-2011, 05:58 PM
 
Location: Seymour TN
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I know where they're putting it and IMO it's just going to ruin the beautiful landscape. There are a bunch of horses next to the river there, I don't know how close the zipline will be to them, but I'm sure it's gonna freak them out, especially all the obnoxious yelling people do.
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