Originally Posted by
Snowballs
i REALLY wish they'ld build another structure like they had last year at the exit of lower sleighride. i believe it's called a hip. i know it was alot of fun and caught good air off of that thing.
the Park is lame. not only are there very few elements, but they quickly become clogged up w/park rats who just sit there trying to be cool. they perch/park on top of the booter like pemanent fixtures. it's a good place to chew some a$$, which you sometimes have to do to get access. i'm thinkin of getting some twin tips, but Gore's meager park has me second guessing.
i think the area above/behind Snoopy might be a nice area for additional park elements. we already use it for the " Snoopy jumps ", a snow fence could be placed between the main trail and the park that might dump some snow.
oh yea, the website says " don't forget the Skier/boardercross and halfpipe at the ski bowl !" Yea. right. we went there Saturday to try it out.......and the place was closed. Lame.
hate to break it to you, but youre prettty much the only person who thinks that about the hip. as of right now, the bottom jump is getting tonssss of love. there are always kids hiking it, and i can guarentee that spring sessions are going to get ridic on that.
but yes, i completely agree. its way too boring. there literally 5 things. the first jump is about 10 feet shorter than it started in the season, the FDF box is too short, a groomer just ran over the flat box, so our longest jib is gone, and in the beginning of the year the same groomer dropped the tiller on the shoutgun rail, which was originally our longest rail, but we had to cut 6' off that.
i think the ski bowl is just a terrible idea in general. ive never seen someone buy a ticket to ski there. ever. its always a few friends who have season passes up there who have a condo there.
jason, the park manager, put in a request for 2 flat rails. 2"x6"x20' and 2"x6"x16', both of them got turned down.
im excited to see what hes got going on for upper sleighride though, he said its going to be the "adirondack park", so i think hes going to try to make it all tree jibs and stuff, but im not sure how well thats going to turn out.