If you love amazing wilderness scenery, crazy speed and you don't mind high places then you need to try the Ziptrek Eagle Tour Zipline Ecotour in beautiful Whistler BC Canada.
Now I have to admit I am a bit afraid of heights and on this zipline tour there where a few moments where I was wondering what I got myself into! Especially when we where waving around on a wooden platform attached to a single tree (a big one mind you) waving around from the wind... And the only way on and off was using plank suspension bridges. I was happy when that part of the trip was over :)
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To be honest most of it was not so scary, the hard part is stepping off of the platform and trusting the line and harness are going to hold. Once you are zipping down that line at 80-90 km/h, the fear has been replaced with a rush and a grin!
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On this Whistler Ziptrek Eagle Tour Zipline Ecotour, there where five ziplines in total two of them are around 2500 feet in length and one zipline drops 30 stories in total from start to finish. You can get up to speeds as high as 90 km/h on some of the faster ziplines and the highest point you are 350 feet off the ground! The trees zipping by really enhances the speed, it's hard to take it all in the first time around, I am going to have to go back again some day and try there newly planned to open (July of 2015) 7000 foot Blackcomb to Whistler dual side by side zipline that sets you as high as 600 feet above the ground...
Watch my Multi-Camera video of this gravity and adrenaline powered thrill ride!