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Tree Top Adventures
by Dionne Beggrew

Soaring® Tree Top Adventures Adds Three New Zipline Spans in 2011 Soaring®

Tree Top Adventures, the largest, safest zipline tour available anywhere, has just gotten larger. In 2011, three new spans will open to the public, making a total of 27 ziplines in the ecofriendly course. Two new spans are over 600 feet, traveling side-by-side, allowing guests to race as they travel through spectacular old growth forest.

Soaring® Tree Top Adventures is an all-day ecological thrill adventure for all ages. Open to the public in 2004, Soaring® Tree Top Adventures is an all-day ecological thrill adventure for all ages. Open to the public in 2004, Soaring is the first of its kind and scale in the U.S.

Guests ages 5-91 traverse across cables that make them feel like they are gliding through the air like birds from tree to tree, on a network of lacy stainless steel platforms nestled high in the Ponderosa canopy. Gliding through Aspen forests and mountain glens, over the crisp, frothy waters of the Animas River, while traversing over a mile and a half of cable through spectacular scenery, Soaring provides a day of adventure long remembered.

The course, with spans ranging from 56 to 1,400 feet, is designed for excitement that is safe and accessible to all ages, with the help of friendly Sky Rangers (guides). Soaring's patented system is completely non-invasive to the old-growth Ponderosa pines it uses to hold the lacey stainless steel platforms to the trees, without a single bolt, nail or screw penetrating the trees.

Soaring holds a second patent: a unique, non-braking system using a formula that takes the braking issue out of the equation for guests. Guests do not need to use a glove to slow themselves, as they arrive to each platform perfectly, and with the aid of guides handling all of the guest equipment, guests ages 5-91 have been able to experience the Soaring adventure.

Soaring® Tree Top Adventures has been rated the #1 Attraction in the United States, Colorado and Durango on TripAdvisor.com, a consumer website for posting unbiased reviews of places visited.

Soaring guests travel in their own private First-Class train cars to and from the zipline. A Soaring train attendant greets guests at the Tall Timber Legend train car, where "ticketless travel" and open car seating await. Boarding is available at the downtown train depot or at the Rockwood station. Non-zipline guests just wanting to experience Soaring's First-Class train car and enjoy the ride to Silverton can call Soaringto reserve seating on the Tall Timber Legend. In 2010, Soaring expanded its Ecological Tour segment of the guest experience. Ecology specialists, or Eco Rangers, provide information in a real-time, teachable moments setting, sharing with guests a wealth of knowledge about the unique, old-growth Ponderosa forest where Soaring resides.

The all-inclusive cost for the 5-hour zipline adventure, including equipment, expert Sky Ranger guides, Eco Tour specialists, a four-course gourmet lunch served in the trees and round-trip train transportation in Soaring's First-Class train cars to this full day of adventure is $439/pp. Advance reservations are required: please call 970-769-2357 or reserve online at www.soaringcolorado.com.