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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsNew Zealand has invented a new activity designed to kill you.....
...if bungee jumping, zorbing and sledging don't do it first...
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New Zealand has invented a new activity designed to kill you..... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jul 2018
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Arkansas Granny
(31,508 posts)1. That looks like fun. I'll bet the climb back up to the top is a killer.
Brother Buzz
(36,389 posts)2. In a previous life, like fifty years ago.....
I'd have been the first to dare it.
demmiblue
(36,824 posts)3. Looks fun (and a lot more mild than the video depicts)!
I have been on steeper/longer sledding hills as a kid (this looks more fun, though).
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)4. I'd do it.
I've done it - on a much smaller natural rock slide into a river. Maybe 25 - 30 feet to the pool of water at the base. (When I did it)
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(82,849 posts)5. Slippery rock, west of Eugene, by any chance?
I spent one glorious afternoon there in my high school days. Clothing was very optional.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)6. No. Georgia mountains.
Broke my back that same day. Opted to not dive off into another pool, turned, slipped on the wet rock and hit the jutted rock below instead of the water. Still, a fun day.
Clothing not optional.