Duration: 4:20

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After having experienced Thunderhead this past summer (which became my favorite ride at Dollywood) and Mystic Timbers in 2021, I've kinda sorta been in the mood for a while to make something that takes inspiration from both of those, but the hard part (and the majority of the reason this project took so long despite not being very elaborately themed) was trying to come up with a layout I felt satisfied with. While it's normal for me to go thru multiple element sequences or partial layouts and figure out which one of those I like better, I think I did that even more than usual here (probably cuz it's much easier to come up with a layout when I already have a signature element, interaction, or specific concept in mind as the main motivator while here the main motivator was pretty much "I like GCI").
Anyway, this part twister, part out and back layout features not one but two station fly-by's through the wind damaged station, one going directly over the station gates and the other right over the exit side, and the numerous pops of airtime will have you out of your seat almost as much as in it. I wanted at one point to do 3 station fly-by's but it's kinda difficut to do that without killing the pacing.

Height: 113 ft
Top speed: 55.1 mph
Track length w/o storage: 3905.61 ft

0:00 Brief off-ride
0:17 Front POV
2:34 Back row POV