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I have a confession to make...I was an Avalanche lover the first time I rode it but after spending two days getting riding it whenever we were nearby I love it even more.



 Avalanche is completely a guilty pleasure of a ride.  It is like the movie Flash Gordon;  instead of being an earth shattering movie like Star Wars it was just a cheesy and fun romp so much that it is hard to channel surf past it.  Avalanche is the same way.  No matter which group of friends that I was with if we got anywhere near it we all had to go and get two, three or more rides on Avalanche before moving on to the other rides at Kings Dominion.



Day or night; no matter the time of day, it was always time for Avalanche. 



Having a train full of friends makes Avalanche even better as we all yelled back and forth at each other joking as the ride went through the spiraling course.  It was so much fun having the likes of Paul, Adrianna, Todd, Kevin, Beth, Luke and others speeding down the chute on Avalanche.  We had so much fun that on one of our night rides sparks flew.



Avalanche was added to Kings Dominion in 1988.  Sadly the bobsled coasters that were briefly popular in the late 1980's have been disappearing from the coaster landscape around the world.  I hope that Kings Dominion realizes what a gem they have here and keep Avalanche speeding down the chute and whipping around the turns as long as they can.



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