Well I haven't started working yet, so I'm guessing I'll make an appearance.

Cool. Mama will be proud.

Snowballs wrote:

sounds like Fuja is working/inputting ideas w/the park personal. not only is that cool but it could produce an improved product. Two heads are better than one. Fuja is supposed to be a top Park Gnome at Gore and should have good ideas. .

A lack of creative input has never been the problem, the problem is that a certain someone doesn't listen to his workers suggestions/the suggestions from the general public and runs the park without considering these ideas. To build a successful park you need to sample a little bit of everyone’s ideas. This allows you to have a park that is not specific to skiiers or snowboarders and also offers up things for every ability level.

Two years ago there was a capable parkcrew of 5 plus Jason the cat driver so 6 total. Everyone on it had a good understanding of how to build and maintain a park and was more than willing to go out of the way to ensure things were kept in good condition. They all rode the park on a daily basis and knew what improvements needed to be made but their suggestions went ignored. Last year the park was staffed by 4 people plus Jason, Chris and Dan being the two more in-tune workers and two other people who were not the best suited to say the least. Chris and Dan put a lot of work into the park but once again their ideas went ignored. HOPEFULLY, Ted aka Fuja, will get a job working in the park and Dan will be hired back too. Knowing Ted personally I can say Ted knows what’s up and hiring him would be a good choice on the mountains part.

The park has been given virtually zero budget, but that isn't too much of a problem really. There are a lot of things that can be built from scratch with things hanging around the mountain. Although metal for rails isn't cheap it sure is a lot cheaper than buying a rail and having it shipped in from Colorado, which sometimes takes half the season to get here.

It's also interesting to note that the park manager tried to have several peoples passes pulled becasue of the criticism they gave of him/his work on this website and another website. Some certain people are at risk of losing their job becasue of it too.

In my opinion that is absolutely ridiculous to do. Revoke something that someone paid good money for over a statement of opinion.

colonel klink wrote:

It's also interesting to note that the park manager tried to have several peoples passes pulled becasue of the criticism they gave of him/his work on this website and another website. Some certain people are at risk of losing their job becasue of it too. In my opinion that is absolutely ridiculous to do. Revoke something that someone paid good money for over a statement of opinion.

More Gore!

I also have a string of messages from either the park manager at Gore or one of his buddies from another website I am debating on posting. His conduct and manners about these kind of things leaves a little to be desired.

He is not a good dude and should be kept on a very short leash and is holding back progress.

Lbtchnlgs wrote:

colonel klink wrote: It's also interesting to note that the park manager tried to have several peoples passes pulled becasue of the criticism they gave of him/his work on this website and another website. Some certain people are at risk of losing their job becasue of it too. In my opinion that is absolutely ridiculous to do. Revoke something that someone paid good money for over a statement of opinion. More Gore!

he pulls a pass over it take him to court.Voicing and opinion is not reason for a pass to be terminated. The park manager should either be disciplined or fired he shouldn't be doing that to begin with.

Fuj anyone let you know the plans for the line-up in the park?

Well here are the original plans I drew up in Illustrator, but I'm not too confident that it'll actually turn out like this, especially because the park manager is afraid to make any rails over 20' and most of the stuff didn't get approved to buy materials or have them pre-made.
(Don't mind the mismatched fonts, I did it in school and haven't installed some of the fonts I used on my home computer yet.)

That would friggin rock! Even half of that would be da bomb. Is this suppose extend from Sunway down to Lower Sleighride? Please say yes. They would get ALOT! of business with all those features.

Got to admit it.......... " Wild Air! " is a great name for a terrain park.

I think in that pic, you can see Sleighride come in about halfway down on on the right . . .

Also, you can see where Stokes comes off of Wild Air almost all the way down, skier's left . . .

But I'd imagine that they'd favor a plan that keeps the Sleighride/Stokes avenue available for people who don't want to get involved in park elements . . .

Handful of rails/boxes skiiers left, on left of towers. No jumps yet. Looks like they maybe tried to shape a jump down at the bottom... It was awfully sad looking though.

The rails looked decent, though from the lift the c-box take off was terrible but later in the afternoon someone from park crew was walking around with a shovel so i'm sure they'll fix it. Didn't hit any of the elements because I was riding my big board, maybe next week. I really need to invest in another pair of bindings; switing from split, to mountain, to park board is a pain w/ only one pair

mattchuck2 wrote:

I think in that pic, you can see Sleighride come in about halfway down on on the right . . . Also, you can see where Stokes comes off of Wild Air almost all the way down, skier's left . . . But I'd imagine that they'd favor a plan that keeps the Sleighride/Stokes avenue available for people who don't want to get involved in park elements . . .

I heard from a friend that Pratt said we have to stop at Sleighride, but I heard from my boss that Pratt said we can go all the way to Quicksilver or 3b or whatever it is down there, as long as we stay to skiers right of the gondi from Sleighride to Stokes. If you look at the trail map it has it double lined from Sleighride to Stokes with the black on skiers right, and blue on skiers left. The black (park) continues down to 3b/Quicksilver.

The thing I'm concerned about is the biggest jumps are going to be down on the lower part of Wild Air next to stokes. If people decided to come down Sleighride, the joeys can still poach the jumps, roll over the lips, cut everyone off, ect.

The map makes it look a lot better than it will be. To scale, the stuff is going to be at least half the size. So in the map it looks pretty full but really it's pretty empty. So unless we actually get some funds to buy more stuff and fill it out, I sorta think we would have been better off just leaving the park on Sleighride.

I learned this weekend that I've really underestimated the need for solid park skills for a tree skier.

Especially an early season tree skier.

While some passageways have handicap access:



... many of the entrances require good rail skills.

Fuje ... would you teach a teleboy to ride the rails?

I like the sparks!

hehehe. last i heard, you were Joey-ing the park Harv. Here's a hint....don't ever tell the Park Rats that you're hitting their jumps without hitting the elements. They don't like that.