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After our ERT on Fire in the Hole we headed off for an exclusive lunch at the Mine Restaurant (which was a treat in itself) before everyone headed to see a show, hit the stores, or snag as many rides as possible enjoying the unseasonably warm day.  As for myself, I wanted to take a look at some of the land clearing that I've been hearing about all year long.  When heading to Wildfire I popped my camera over the new fence to grab a look at what's on the other side.

As you can see here the space between Wildfire and Powder Keg has been cleared out with quite a bit of work put into the American Plunge Log Flume.



 Taking a look at Wildfire's lift hill you can see some land cleared past the lift and...



...several footers being built.  In fact when riding Wildfire you get a wonderful view of footers that sure look like what you would need for a helix if you were building a coaster.



Looking through some of the peep holes along the construction fence you get a nice view of some of the work that has been done on the American Plunge log flume.  As you can see here the bit before the American Plunge's lift has had the concrete replaced as well as the framing for a new roof over that stretch.  I'm kind of curious if there will be some refreshed theming for this stretch of the log flume.



Being the low point of the American Plunge there is a concrete lined retention pool for the water that is needed for that ride.  The really important thing are the footers that go across the retention pool.  As there are strings of footers across this plot of land between Powder Keg and Wildfire that extend down the hillside I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that Silver Dollar City is adding some kind of a steel coaster for 2027.



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