You need a good run at it which is why thrill-seekers will love zipping through the Dublin Mountains.
For me my past zipping experience has been so fleeting it’s been over shortly after it’s begun.
The zip lining (behave yourself)!
We’d been promised a ride through the Swiss Alps.
Only for time and sense on the part of our hosts to push on to the next activity… scootering.
But did get around to it in varied backdrops above the promenade of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
On a right royal party in the English Channel… to Old Las Vegas.
And I never tire of retelling how a Travel colleague got stuck above Fremont Street.
Because he was too light and had to be rescued, a la a dangling Boris Johnson, from his harness.
Trail of the lonesome pines
All of which meanderings came back to mind as news reaches us of the opening.
Of the Zip Trail at Coillte’s Tibradden Wood in the Dublin Mountains.
Zip Trail consists of 18 treetop elements including 12 ziplines totalling over 500 metres in length.
They say it is suitable for anyone aged 12 or older and, of course, the pre-teens will whizz by you.
Zip Trail can also be booked as an add-on for just €10 per person when purchasing a session on the high ropes course.
Walk the line
The history lesson is free.
The concept of ziplining was originally a mode of transport in alpine and jungle regions.
Yet it was only in the 1970s that the experience caught on with adventurer Donald Perry’s inventive way of exploring the Costa Rican Jungle.
The first commercial zip line opened in Costa Rica in 1995.
And now ziplining has become part of experiential tourism worldwide.
And to this great collective we can add Cool Running Events.
A Cork-based event management company which specialises in recreation experiences in Ireland.
Cool Running Events have been creating unique experiences in Ireland since 2007.
And they have already given us Ireland’s largest ice rinks with IceSkating.ie Cool Running Events.
In August 2021, Cool Running Events acquired Zipit Forest Adventures – Ireland’s biggest high ropes course company.
With courses located in Tibradden Wood, Dublin (that’ll be the zipping through the Dublin mountains) as well as Cork and Roscommon.