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Our intent was to ride the Alpine Slide and Human Maze.
The trip up was sort of a nightmare, getting from our house in Aurora to Breckenridge. First, we had to deal with rush hour on I-25 (no fun), but there was an unexpected delay near Frisco, where road construction took westbound I-70 down from three lanes to one lane (and instantly).
Once we got up to the Fun Park, we started out with four rides on the Alpine Slide. The first three rides were in the far right (or advanced) lane, which I like the most. The fourth ride was in the middle lane (due to backup on the right lane). Afterwards, my sister Maggie and I did the human maze. We had done this before on a trip several weeks earlier, and I had managed to make it (that time) through the maze in six minutes, despite how difficult it was.
Afterwards, we ate lunch at the Bergenhof.Now onto the hike on Peak 8.
We started out by going up the Colorado SuperChair to this hiking path that leads to a hill from which you can look upon the upper terminal of the Rocky Mountain SuperChair.
But I noticed that the hiking path continued on. We took this hiking path, which started climbing several times. It eventually took us all the way to the midway turn on the uphill line of the T-Bar, where it turned and headed down to an access road. The access road lead us over to meet up with the Columbine run near the top of Duke's Run. From there, we headed back towards the Vista Haus, and I noticed that the Rocky Mountain SuperChair had the maintenance carrier on line at tower 15, in place of Chair #28 (which explains why I saw Chair #28 at the bottom without a hangar arm). I got a lot of pictures of the Rocky Mountain SuperChair and the T-Bar, and we continued on to the Vista Haus, riding the Colorado SuperChair back down.
Afterwards, I decided to do some bungee jumping. Despite the wait, it was worth it. It was a very thrilling experience to jump to the height of the top floor of the Bergenhof!
After that, we made two more Alpine Slide rides: one on the middle lane, and a final one on the right lane, before I hit the maze again.
On all of the human mazes, you are trying to find the letters M, A, Z, and E, (spell the word MAZE for me), and get out of the maze. If you complete the maze in eight minutes or less, you get a prize. Yesterday, on my first time through the maze, it took me only five minutes to complete the maze, although on the second time, it took six minutes.
I had a very FUN day yesterday! I'll post some pictures in the photos part of the forum in a few days.
UPDATE: Copper Mountain photos from last Sunday coming in Images gallery today!
This post has been edited by DonaldMReif: 29 August 2009 - 11:36 AM
