It promised that if we took the trouble to travel some two hours from our Manhattan home to a valley just over the border in Pennsylvania, we could enjoy 25 miles of "easy downhill rails-to-trails biking" alongside a beautiful river.
Courses are split into different disciplines, such as the simple downhill slalom, rail-riding, or gravity defying big air.
Slopestyle, in which skiers are judged on freestyle manoeuvres on a downhill course with jumps and rails, was added to the Olympic programme a year ago.
While the station is almost adjacent to the airport perimeter, it is around 40 metres downhill from it, making a fixed rail link difficult to build.
Should you miss the Rail Trail turning, simply follow Dyke Road downhill (and pretty much dead straight) all the way to Brighton station.
In case you're not familiar with slopestyle, it involves a downhill run marked by various features such as jumps and rails.
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Built to race down elevated tubular rails, the sled-like Alpine coasters are the ski country equivalent of roller coasters, rocketing downhill at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.
Driven Natalie, who reinvented herself as the world's idea of a success, is coming off the rails; uncertain Leah is balking at the prospect of motherhood; for Nathan, it's been downhill since primary school.
In Bluefield's oversized rail yards, the Norfolk & Western linked up hundred-car coal trains and rolled them downhill from the mountains into the Piedmont, bound for Norfolk, where Appalachian anthracite found its way into the bellies of the ships whose men and materiel would turn the tide of war.
