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Known for its camping, hiking, swimming
and stargazing, Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
has taken it up a notch. Cypress Hills Eco-Adventures — winner of Tourism Saskatchewan's 2011
Rookie of the Year Award and celebrating its oneyear anniversary this summer — tops out the
park's roster with ziplining, wall climbing and
slacklining. Enjoy a bird's-eye view of lodgepole
pine as you zipline some 14 metres off the
ground. Get a grip on one of four routes to the top
of the 10-metre-high climbing wall. Or, much closer
to the ground, tap into your inner Wallenda and try
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slacklining, promoted as "the newest innovation in
balance sports, which requires strength, determination and concentration to master." Unlike a rigid,
round tightrope, the two-inch-wide, flat nylon webbing — tensioned between two trees — stretches
and bounces while you stand, walk, kneel and, if
you wish, perform tricks on it.
Cypress Hills Eco-Adventures is open May-October.
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1-800-662-4466; zipcypresshills.ca
Visit caask.ca/wwonline for more details and
photos of Cypress Hills Eco-Adventures.
Alynne Hamre
4/16/12 9:18:56 AM