撰稿：Fruit Boy
四月 10 2010
Vancouver gold medalists Shani Davis and Ashleigh McIvor display the free zip line in San Francisco being used to promote tourism to Canada.
Riders must scale the 101 steps of fun up a scaffold tower to get to the zip line, which the British Columbia tourism office hopes will lure tourists to the site of the Winter Olympics.
The 600-foot zip line is up until April 18.
Elizabeth Boisvert of San Diego takes off across the plaza.
Two daredevils catch a ride on the zipline at San Francisco's Justin Herman Plaza on Thursday. The 600-foot zipline ride is part of an 11-day event called The British Columbia Experience.
Vancouver gold medalists Shani Davis (left) and Ashleigh McIvor on the zipline at Justin Herman Plaza.
It’s not everyday that one gets to fly hundreds of feet through the air past San Francisco’s Ferry Building.
But for the next 10 days, anyone who wants to can cruise along a 600-foot zip line that spans Justin Herman Plaza, watching the Financial District lunch crowd between their dangling feet or leaning backward to check out the Bay Bridge upside down.
It’s all thanks to folks from British Columbia who are trying to lure tourists to the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
There is, of course, a catch: It’s free, so you’ll have to wait.
When the whole thing was unveiled under radiant skies Thursday with the help of Aboriginal dance group the Le-La-La Dancers, some folks waited hours to get belted into a harness and take the “101 steps of fun” up a scaffold tower before zipping along a metal cable to a platform across the plaza.
Riders get a wristband with a specific time to limit the wait. Christina Louie, 24, and Karl Ico, 28, took BART from Daly City about 10:30 a.m. but their time to hit the zip line wasn’t until 4 p.m. They didn’t seem to mind.
That’s because two Olympic gold medalists, U.S. speed skater Shani Davis and Canadian ski-cross racer Ashleigh McIvor, were on hand signing autographs after taking a spin down the zip line themselves.
The zip line experience runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. until April 18. It’s modeled on the zip line set up in downtown Vancouver during the Olympics.
Carol Nelson, an executive with the British Columbia tourism office, said they took an “iconic experience” from the Olympics and tried to convert it into a marketing tool.
“We want to motivate people to come and visit this summer,” Nelson said.
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