Everyone love the slides. You can sit on your butt and fall down them, you can run up them, and, of course, you can climb underneath them. Every jungle gym has at least one slide. A quality jungle gym has several types of slides. There are the conventional wide slides with small rails on the side, but there are also narrow slides with walls and a roof, too.

There are many subtle variations on the conventional slide. Here's a typical one (at Trumansburg). In that photo, Fred is demonstrating that he is tall enough to reach all the way across the slide. This helps a lot, but if you aren't tall enough, you can use the vertical poles that hold up the slide. Or, you can ignore that and try to pull a few really nasty moves.

These are from an unusually wide slide in Newfield. Even Fred isn't quite tall enough to make this one easy.

The wide slides get most of the glamor, but there's no reason to ignore the narrow slides. Going underneath them is usually trivial, but going up or down them without touching the sheet metal slide on the floor is non-trivial.

In addition, there are a number of all-metal corkscrew slides. Traversing up or down these isn't too hard. Here's Mark at the bottom of one:

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