# Review: Sky High Adventure Park in Holiday Valley **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 29, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982 "2011-08-29T06:17:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anonymity](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/anonymity/32/7215_2.png) [@Anonymity](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Anonymity)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/21 "2011-08-29T11:14:28Z")
Yup, that is cool, what is the price? Darn iPhone browsing… ---
**Author:** ![bracketracer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bracketracer/32/15592_2.png) [@bracketracer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bracketracer)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/22 "2011-08-29T11:21:04Z")
$42 for three hours ---
**Author:** ![llink78](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/llink78/32/8037_2.png) [@llink78](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/llink78)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/23 "2011-08-29T15:45:59Z")
> [@newman](#): > > You should wear a gopro. > > And don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a lot of non-risky things, but I don’t like safe things masquerading as “extreme” or “risky” the place is not that hard Newman, im 6 foot 230 and havent really dont much physical activity since HS in 04. i did all the courses except the double black diamond and thats bc some girl was stuck at the beginning and the rest of my group wanted to leave. was it really fun yes, would i go again probably. ---------- Post added at 06:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:44 PM ---------- > [@bracketracer](#): > > $42 for three hours also when i went there were really laxed on the hours you were there. we spent almost 4 hours there and nobody checked our tags ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 10:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/24 "2012-07-02T10:05:49Z")
So I went to this yesterday. I had a good time and did all of the harder courses. The girl I went with also did all of the harder courses, if that says anything… nothing requires any exceptional skill or balance, maybe a bit of nerve if you’re not used to “heights” There was one portion of the course where you have to hold onto this board on an overhead trolley and walk across a (more or less) tightrope. I did it with no hands. Apparently no one had ever done that before, so they let me jump right from the easy courses to the “hard” ones. The zip lines are alright, although I did get yelled at for doing flips off the exit platform. I guess my biggest gripe was that there really wasn’t anything that required any sort of skill. There was always something to hold on, or always something to put your feet on. It’d be cooler, IMHO, if there were bridges with no handholds, or monkeybars or rings with no footholds. Things that required some strength and balance. But I still had a good time. Cliffs: Had fun. Slightly challenging. Need harder courses. Would go again. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/25 "2012-07-02T10:11:25Z")
[http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/woman-with-flesh-eating-1468819.html](http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/woman-with-flesh-eating-1468819.html) > Aimee Copeland was released Monday from Doctors Hospital in Augusta. The 24-year-old is moving to an inpatient rehabilitation clinic. She’ll spend the next several weeks learning to move with the aid of a wheelchair after having her left leg, right foot and both hands amputated. > The graduate student at the University of West Georgia contracted the rare infection after she suffered a deep cut falling from a broken zip-line May 1. ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/26 "2012-07-02T10:24:01Z")
> [@boxxa](#): > > [http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/woman-with-flesh-eating-1468819.html](http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/woman-with-flesh-eating-1468819.html) That’s pretty crazy. When I skimmed it, I thought the amputations were directly due to a zipline fall. That would have been a pretty awful fall. However, it’s not a very good reason to not go on a zipline. ---
**Author:** ![Kramer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kramer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Kramer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/27 "2012-07-02T10:31:36Z")
Yea that really sucks the zip line broke or what ever but it seems that the hospital would be to blame for the weird infection… ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/28 "2012-07-02T10:37:34Z")
> [@newman](#): > > That’s pretty crazy. When I skimmed it, I thought the amputations were directly due to a zipline fall. That would have been a pretty awful fall. However, it’s not a very good reason to not go on a zipline. Just a fitting story to this topic. I love zip lining. ---
**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/29 "2012-07-02T11:40:23Z")
> [@strokingnova](#): > > Yea that really sucks the zip line broke or what ever but it seems that the hospital would be to blame for the weird infection… The infection lives in just about every body of water; she fell from the zip line into the water (with the cut) and her immune system wasn’t strong enough/didn’t react properly. Side topic I know, but relevant. This I have a feeling we’re going to be seeing more and more with the sterilization of our world (cleaning and the alcohol sanitizers everywhere; we’re not letting our body learn how to fight off disease). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/30 "2012-07-02T12:25:19Z")
> [@97FormulaWS-6](#): > > The infection lives in just about every body of water; she fell from the zip line into the water (with the cut) and her immune system wasn’t strong enough/didn’t react properly. Side topic I know, but relevant. This I have a feeling we’re going to be seeing more and more with the sterilization of our world (cleaning and the alcohol sanitizers everywhere; we’re not letting our body learn how to fight off disease). This. ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/31 "2012-07-02T12:27:53Z")
Lucky for me I ate a bagel out of a dumpster over the weekend. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/32 "2012-07-02T12:50:26Z")
> [@97FormulaWS-6](#): > > The infection lives in just about every body of water; she fell from the zip line into the water (with the cut) and her immune system wasn’t strong enough/didn’t react properly. Side topic I know, but relevant. This I have a feeling we’re going to be seeing more and more with the sterilization of our world (cleaning and the alcohol sanitizers everywhere; we’re not letting our body learn how to fight off disease). I guess? However it also just about wiped out staph infections at many hospitals that were having a really big issue with it. ---
**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/33 "2012-07-02T13:17:32Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > I guess? > > However it also just about wiped out staph infections at many hospitals that were having a really big issue with it. True, but the rate of allergies in the next generations is rising dramatically; and studies are showing that the “extra sterile” environments that parent’s are raising their kids in (IE: ALWAYS sterilizing their hands, always clean, etc) is causing the immune system to not know how to react “normally” to infection, bacteria, etc; and instead over-react to the smallest thing. ---------- Post added at 02:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:02 PM ---------- Holy left turn batman… let’s get this back on track. So those of you that have been, would you say it’s worth the $$ or no for this “adventure”? ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/34 "2012-07-02T13:53:32Z")
It’s only 45 dollars for 3 hours of fun. Seems reasonable. I would recommend that everyone try it. ---
**Author:** ![bracketracer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bracketracer/32/15592_2.png) [@bracketracer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bracketracer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/35 "2012-07-02T16:40:48Z")
> [@newman](#): > > The zip lines are alright, although I did get yelled at for doing flips off the exit platform… Glad you went. Been once this year, and also flipped off the final zip back to base, spent the remainder of the zip upside down, and didn’t get yelled at. I like to sort of use the courses as a gym, since some of the elements are slightly challenging, and it makes for a decent full body workout. ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/36 "2012-07-03T08:13:18Z")
![https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/534617_10151080302689365_877943656_n.jpg](https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/534617_10151080302689365_877943656_n.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![GV1390](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gv1390/32/5432_2.png) [@GV1390](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GV1390)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/37 "2012-10-08T12:06:16Z")
So I gave this a go yesterday. The whole time I was there it was down-pouring which made it slightly less enjoyable. All in all I had fun, although I ran out of time(waiting on others to advance to the next level was frustrating)to do the double black diamond obstacles. Like previously stated they need to up the levels to make it really skill-worthy IMO. Even the double black diamond ones(the most difficult) seemed fairly “easy”. I believe this was the last weekend it was open for the season. I would love to go back in spring, hopefully not on a rainy day and can only hope people that suck aren’t there holding up the line. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gus/32/5112_2.png) [@Gus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/38 "2012-10-08T18:52:16Z")
I did this one up in Bolton Landing/Lake George, NY. [http://www.adirondackextreme.com/](http://www.adirondackextreme.com/) It was tough, and if you don’t have great upper body strength, the will to go-for-it, or balance… …you would not make it through all 5 courses. I’ve yet to try to the one at Holiday Valley, but it just didn’t seem as big as this course was. I was behind a bunch of possible/probable JB that made the trip worth it. ---
**Author:** ![focusinprogress](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/focusinprogress/32/7227_2.png) [@focusinprogress](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/focusinprogress)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982/39 "2012-10-08T20:33:16Z")
I did this with the g/f on saturday, had a blast. did everything but double black diamond…I was too tired by then and running out of time. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-sky-high-adventure-park-in-holiday-valley/215982.md?page=1)