Negative-G - Hersheypark 2015

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The Coal Cracker Hydro Flume at Hersheypark, Hershey, Pennsylvania

Underneath the Sooper Dooper Looper and the Great Bear sits The Coal Cracker Hydro Flume.

I know most of you are looking at this and saying "Oh it is a Log Flume" but it isn't exactly one. This Arrow Dynamics designed Hydro Flume has a boat that instead of just splashing down it hydroplanes over the water at high speed at the bottom of the drop before splashing down.

Coal Cracker was really a fantastic ride. We ended up riding it twice because it was so much fun. A little suggestion though is to sit in the back as there is a wicked pop of airtime at the bottom of Coal Cracker's big drop if you sit there.

Oh if you were wondering why this flume has a name like "Coal Cracker" it is a local nickname that those living and working in Pennsylvania's coal mining region have given themselves.

We don't want to take the Monroeville exit...there are zombies there.

Ok a little horror/Pennsylvania history here as George Romero who invented the modern zombie horror movie genre with a little Pittsburgh low budget movie called "Night of the Living Dead" shot his opus "Dawn of the Dead" in the Pittsburgh area at the Monroeville Mall.

Hersheypark's car ride is known as the Twin Turnpike. There are two tracks one with the antique cars that John, Draven, Bond and myself were on and then another track with some roadsters to cruise in.