Alpengeist

Alpengeist is a steel roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Alpengeist has an Alpine mountain region theme. The name "Alpengeist" is German for "Ghost of the Alps" or "Alps Spirit" and the ride is themed to a runaway ski lift. Since it opened in 1997, Alpengeist has been the world's tallest complete circuit inverted coaster.Ride experienceUpon exiting the station, the floor drops beneath the riders feet and the train climbs the 195-foot-tall chain lift after hearing the send-off recording "Thank you and enjoy your avalanche of adventure on Alpengeist!" The track drops to the right down a 170-foot drop, going past The Land of The Dragons, with the train hitting 67 miles per hour. Following the drop, the track passes through an Immelmann loop, followed by a 106-foot vertical loop. The track then races through a wooden tunnel, which until recent years, had cameras for an on-ride photo (it has since been removed due to the two inside seats not being clear in the photos), before passing through a cobra roll over the Rhine River, adjacent to the Loch Ness Monster's final brake run. Out of the cobra roll, the track crosses over the entrance to the cobra roll, passes by Griffon, then hits the midcourse brake run. Off the midcourse brakes, the track crosses over the exit from the Immelmann loop, then goes down a drop and through a zero-g roll alongside the Le Scoot log flume. After a short section of straight track close to ground level, the track goes through a corkscrew, followed by a clockwise helix, before making a left hand turn to the final brake run.