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Plymouth Ice Festival
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What a ride

Ice slide adds fun to festival

Josh and Melissa Zian of Clarkston love the Plymouth Ice
Festival.
“We do the Tubing Slide,” said Josh, 39. “We do it because
it's fun. We just developed it. You can do it year round. You
don't need snow.
“We have a number of things” that make up the slide,
which is about 10 feet tall. “It looks bigger because we have
sides on it,” he said, noting it's used “like a ski resort” with
inner tubes.
“It's going to be a fun time,” Josh Zian said. He and
Melissa, married 18 years, have an 11-year-old son.
“We just have the slide,” at Ice Festival, he said, “We just
created the slide for fun. We were invited by Plymouth to
come out and enjoy the time.”
Lights on the slide are planned for this year but weren't
used last year, he
added. The rollers
this year on the slide
will add little “hills”
or “bumps” rather
than being flat.
“It adds more
excitement to the
ride,” he said. They
do a number of other
events with the slide,
including in summer-
time when lights
aren't needed.
They enjoy those
events, with details at
the website of
www.zinnovation-
sllc.com.
Josh Zian's Z
Innovations is a fami-
ly owned and operat-
ed business bringing
snow sports to the
region since 2007.
“Our setup pro-
vides users the abili-
ty to ski, snowboard
and snow tube.
Bringing the moun-
tain to you ... no real
snow necessary,”
claims the website.