Updates on Six Flags Over Auburn

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Here’s a glimpse of the towering 50 foot rock climbing wall inside Auburn’s amusement park of a Recreation and Wellness Center, the full, paw-shaped hot tub plans for which recently dropped jaws… and riled syndicated columnist and former Plainsman editor Rheta Grimsely.

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The building will include a 50-foot rock-climbing wall “with an auto-belaying system,” whatever that is, “four bordering caves for lateral climbing, a 20-foot wet rock climbing wall in the 20,000 gallon leisure activity pool, a 45-person hot tub in the shape of a tiger paw and a third of a mile indoor track with a corkscrew formation and 10 feet of altitude change.”

The track reportedly will be the longest indoor track in the country. In the country.

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“You’ll forgive me,” an Auburn professor emailed his department colleagues, “when in future meetings I just blurt out ‘45-person hot tub in the shape of a tiger paw’ when the next round of budget cuts or library cancellations is announced.”

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