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designing terrain parks, for a career
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Now, I know most of you wont be able to help me out here. But there has to be someone here that knows.
The way I see my life going is that I want to design terrain parks for a job. You know for a mountain and stuff.
Is there any sort of education I could major in college for this? Or is it a job where you start out low, and if you prove yourself, you keep moving up higher?
Any information would help, at this moment I have yet to talk to one person who knows whats up.
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Im not really sure exactly but there are college courses for Resort Managemnet and if you really wanted to do it im pretty sure you have to go through some kind of class to become a groomer and they teach you like all the angles and shit of the park so kids dont go launching to far or not clearing the jump at all. Theres also supposovely a book that like when you go through the class that has like a good 40 pages on how to make a park. Next time you go to a ski resort ask if you can talk to the mountain manager or the guy in charge of mechanics or somethign they should be able to tell you exactly what you need to know.
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Check out the website www.teamedshouse.com This guy has started that type of business, and I bet he could give you a little know how on it. Just drop him a line or something and he should be able to help you.
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Yea it sounds like if you go to scool for ski resort management you learn stuff like that sort of. Colorado mountain college and a bunch of community kind of colleges have it i think.
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i would think that it would have something to do with arcitexture
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dude, you want my job....(or not if you knew the hill I'm working at). I'm designing/building/maintaining my local park and pipe....you want to know how I got that job.....I've work at this resort every year since I was 14 (so I'm into my 10th year)....put your time in, start out as a digger or park warden (or something like that), and get to know the management.
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for college and stuff like that, im guessing you would benefit from a degree in landscape architecture and engineering. (Same as what golf course designers need).
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anyone kno anything about selkirk college in BC, if so how is it for the resort management course I was checking out but I don't believe it all about the employment after schooling and future of the career etc.
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i was into the same thing as you, and i designed some obstcales for www.snowparknz.com and at the shitty oshawa ski club... but snow park nz was the best... if you want to talk to someone, i talked to the guy who does the n64 park, and he said that he went into ski resort managment, and just started as maintnence, then went to groomer, then went to terrain park maintainer, then he got into design... you have to start at the bottom
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