Saturday, April 28, 2007

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

My favorite Disneyland ride is Mr. Toad's Wild Ride which is, well, about what it sounds like. My brother John went hang gliding recently and had a flight that fits the description of a Mr. Toad's. Below is the GPS map of the flight with the color of the track indicating speed of descent/ascent. Check out the solid red lines... at one point he was going *up* at 1,500 feet per minute. Wow!

4 comments:

SARA said...

oh wow is right! what a feeling!

Brad Wright said...

Yes, I'm going to fly at the same site in a couple of weeks, and I hope that I don't get quite that much excitement.

SARA said...

oh wow,you should have a blast!should i pray for high winds? lol

If you're interested in climbs, i've been following Tim Warrens climb up Everest..he has his GPS working now.
http://www.drtimwarren.com/Followtheclimb.htm

Knumb said...

Apparently the lift I hit is sometimes referred to as

"idiot lift"

weeeeeeeeeee