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Volume 2, No. 10. June 14, 2002

New Arrivals

It’s a pair of bowl slides!
Camelbeach in Tannersville, Pennsylvania, announces the arrival of Vortex and Spin Cycle, June 1, 2002. Measurements: 45 feet high (14 meters), 40-foot (12-meter) diameter Spin Cycle bowl and 167-foot (51-meter) chute; 28-foot (8-meter) diameter Vortex bowl and 111-foot (34 meter) chute. Delivered by ProSlide Technology Inc.

The mountainside waterpark finished construction and testing on the region’s first pair of bowl slides, a ProBOWL body slide (Vortex) and CannonBOWL tube slide (Spin Cycle) by the end of the last week of May. With June’s dawn, “They were ready to go, so we opened them,” said Dave Johnson, assistant director of sales and marketing for Camelback Ski Resort and Camelbeach Waterpark. “We were hoping and hoping it would be open for the first. There wasn’t a whole lot of time to do anything special; we just wanted to get it open.”

They did give an hour’s special preview to season pass holders upon the park’s opening that Saturday morning. Then the general park guests were allowed to take a spin or two. “It’s good to have a couple of options,” Johnson said. “People who aren’t quite ready to try the Vortex still have some way to get that same type of experience.” Vortex has a 48-inch (122 centimeter) minimum for riders; children 36 to 48 inches (91 to 122 centimeters) can ride the Spin Cycle with an adult.

Providing two options to guests was one reason Camelbeach decided to get both bowls. A twosome also gives the park higher capacity than a single bowl, and that notion was tested from the start. “So far, that’s where the guests have concentrated this year,” Johnson said of the bowl slides. “We’re not terribly busy because it’s still early in the season, but that’s where you’ll find the lines.”