Brainerd Zipline Tour at Ski Gull -
Intrigue is what fuels a thrill seeker and experience converts it to adrenaline. The views of your imagination start to become reality as you are getting the harness strapped around your body in preparation for suspension in the air. Harnessing yourself for the adventures to come, your heart races and anticipation floods your mind with questions like, “How high and how fast will we be going?” Mount Ski Gull boasts the Brainerd Zipline Tour, which brings you seven ziplines to satisfy that urge of speed and flight with a bird’s eye view. It’s the climb of the first tower where reality starts setting in. Once at the top, the forests that surround Gull Lake, Lakeshore and Nisswa come into sight.
The quest for human flight and speed is embedded in all of us. In some form or another we seek aerial views of our surroundings, which stem from watching birds traverse the treetops and skies above. Cruising the wind currents from tree to tree, it looks playful and exhilarating and we dream of what that must feel like. Ziplining in its original form dates back to ~ 250 B.C. and was first used in transport of supplies and equipment over distances between two elevated points. Who knew that one day it would become a hobby?
It’s time to link up for your first ride! With your ground training complete and your harness snuggly fitted, your professional tour guide is now connecting you to the pulley and safety line that will “zip” you through space and time, because you will forget time exists. Sitting down, your weight takes out the slack of your harness as the pulley and safety line are ready to take you on a ride! The hype of leaving the platform while hanging in the air intensifies as you accelerate from gravity. It makes you feel like you’re in a scene from a James Bond movie and right now… you are living life to its fullest!
One cannot help scanning like a hawk, taking in all of the scenery with the world below during your flight. With that bird’s eye view, you wonder how far you can see and look for water towers of certain cities nearby. Passing through the trees is where you get to picture how a bird sees a specific tree and upon approach, wonders which branch is the best to land on. Your creative mind is just getting started!
The thrill of the hikes, walks and suspended rope bridges, makes you want to build that tree fort you wanted as a kid. The thought of dropping water balloons, while planning their trajectories and impact sites has you coming up with new ideas like dart boards or bag toss on the ground as you fly by. The kid in you is emerging as you approach your first stop and you get to do this six more times! You wonder how you have never done this before and if you have… why did you wait so long to do it again? No need to build one since they already did!
Taking you to new heights in the Lakes Area, this is a must try for any “Bucket List” and will likely become a new hobby. Next time bring family and friends to join in the fun each time they come to visit.
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