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Alpine Adventures - Sky Rider Zipline Tour - Lincoln, NH

We woke up this morning around 8:30AM and finished up some last minute packing before loading up my car with all of our gear. Liz decided to bring her closet with her, so it made it sort of difficult to see out my rear window. Not really, she actually did good! Only because I forced her to leave what I thought was unnecessary back at home.

Anyways, so we loaded the car and headed on up to New Hampshire. Surprisingly enough there was a little traffic before we got to Boston but luckily we were in no real rush to get up there.

We took our time and even made a few stops along the way. We arrived at the Franconia Notch Motel around 12:45PM and we were immediately able to check right in. It worked out perfect. We were looking forward to transferring all of our junk from my car into our new home for the weekend.

Once we unloaded all of our gear and parked our bikes inside of our room, we headed south on Rt.93 to exit 32 (Rt.112) The Kancamagus Highway which is where you’ll find everything you need from shopping, to food, outdoor adventure companies, and even ski mountains like Loon! We stopped just out front of Loon Mountain which is where the Pemigewasset River flows right by.

We spent a few minutes hanging by the river before packing up and heading back past our motel to Indian Head Resort on Rt.3.

Here you can find a gift shop, and tower that you can climb to the top of for $0.50 to get some amazing views of the Indian Head Monument in the distance along with all of the other beautiful scenery that surrounds it.

After leaving Indian Head Resort we headed back on down to the Kancamagus Highway for our 4:30PM Sky Rider Zipline Tour at Alpine Adventures!

Once everyone arrived that was going on the tour with us we all got geared up while listening to the instructor talk about the safety precautions. Check us out!

A limo bus picked us up out front and took us to another location about 10 minutes down the road where we loaded on to a 6-wheel drive Swiss army transport vehicle called a Pinzgauer. The ride we were about to take was beyond crazy. We were told to hold on tight as we tore through the forest and got tossed around in the vehicle. I couldn’t even take out my camera because it was literally that rocky and bumpy. Besides, I needed two hands to hold on so I wouldn’t fly out of this thing!

We finally arrived at our destination and we hiked out a minute or two into the forest where we were met by our first Zip line of five on this tour! The best part about this first zip was that it was a dual zip line so we could race each other!

I didn’t get the chance to take any photos while we were zip lining but I DID manage to film all of our zips throughout the tour by holding on with one hand to the harness and filming with the other. The videos are really cool and I’ll be sure to upload them within the next couple of days so stay tuned!

Each of the 5 zip lines had their own characteristics. Some were longer than others, some were faster, etc. Overall they were all unbelievable! I’d have to say my two favorite zips of the five were the Montego Bay Express Zip which was (nearly 1600ft long) with amazing scenic views and…

The last zip of the tour was also a favorite of mine, White Knuckle Pine zip which had an 80ft drop and speeds up to 50MPH! Liz and I both decided that we would end the day by walking our heels to the edge of the platform of White Knuckle Pine and falling off backwards! It was insane!

The Sky Rider tour took about 2 Hours to complete from start to finish and by the time we were finished we were pretty exhausted! We hiked down about 5 minutes and loaded back into the 6-wheel off road vehicle for a ride back down to our limo bus.

After arriving back at the office of Alpine Adventures we dropped off our gear and had a short debriefing. Overall it was a great experience, and I definitely recommend this if you’ve never done zip lining before. Between the views, the speed, the fun and the pure adrenaline of zip lining, it is truly something not to be missed if you’re in the Lincoln, NH area.

Once we finished up at Alpine Adventures we took a long ride all the way down the Kancamagus until we reached the Settlers’ Green Outlet Village in North Conway, NH. Neither of us were too impressed with the stores there so we headed back to our motel after spending about 45 minutes or so looking around. Tomorrow we plan on grabbing some breakfast early before heading off for the day to do some hiking and maybe we’ll even spot a few waterfalls along the way.

A last minute decision has turned into an weekend full of adventure for myself and Liz! Yesterday we decided instead of sticking around here and going hiking, biking, walking, or whatever other sport/adventure that ends in “ing” that we would shoot up to New Hampshire and make a weekend of it.

It was sort of a pain to book the accommodations because it was so last minute. We were originally looking into staying in a cabin or a cottage up in Lincoln, NH but due to NO VACANCY across the board we decided to booking reservations for a motel in the area that has received a bunch of great reviews on TripAdvisor. It’s in a great location and it’s close to everything that we have planned for the weekend so it should work out to be very handy.

While up in Lincoln, we’re planning on doing some hiking and biking along with a bunch of great sightseeing. There’s so many things to do and see in the White Mountains region that we might have to spend a couple weekends up there just to see it all. We’re going to try to take advantage of this weekend rain or shine, and make the best of it.

Remember… “Live Free or Die!”

For more information on things to do, and places to stay in the White Mountains Region of New Hampshire, click here.