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Stan_Darsh
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the new park is up. pretty fun even though it isnt very big yet. there is a fun stepdown, a pretty fun box setup that is like a 20 foot flat to a 20 foot down, and some other rails and jumps. hoping it will improve by quite a bit, but not bad for now
Dec 23 2005 8:36PM
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NWFlow
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That was it, according to the newspaper. They lost power to the lifts or whatever. The paper might not be right though.
Jan 13 2006 9:04PM
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Literature
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Still ridiculous. The park is ridiculously shitty lately too. Need to change the hits up and make bigger stuff, and groom the thing.
Jan 14 2006 12:56AM
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Mt_P0wDerJuNkIe
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wow 22 inchs shut you down?? thats crazy
Jan 15 2006 9:58PM
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GotamaBCshredder
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th elifts lost power dude. and that pow is so heavy it sucks
Jan 15 2006 10:45PM
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NWFlow
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^Still better than mt. baker which is closed until wednesday. I would expect for Big Mtn. to have a better park than it sounds like they do, though.
Jan 16 2006 12:16AM
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AwR
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about the park, i was up there today and it was closed, they are redoing everything no more step up looks like theres going to be another jump after the step up i dont know what, just thought id tell you guys
Jan 18 2006 7:11PM
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Rez4frederick
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^thats good news.
Jan 19 2006 6:09PM
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PurpleSkier
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They turned the middle jump into an actual table now. Top one is a roller at this point, and lame. There's just a huge mound of snow where the stepup was. I told them to make it into a 60 foot table with a lip that puts you up way high. Then they were like "oh, we could just do a bigger stepup" retards. The point of having a jump put you higher in the air is so that you can do bigger, stylier tricks, and if youre higher in the air, it's way more rad.
Jan 19 2006 6:29PM
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Literature
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The rails and box segment is sooooo much better, and the second table finally has a real landing. The park is tits.
Jan 20 2006 12:50AM
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PurpleSkier
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I wouldn't go as far as that. The snow between the boxes? stupid, if you can't clear the gap, you shouldn't be hitting it, period. Lose the gap. Landing for the shotgun rail? how about it. Perhaps someone should email them some diagrams that show a landing for a rail that high should start a few feet after the rail, not dead on the end of the rail. That's my two cents.
Jan 20 2006 12:52AM
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ajax
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I got a little footage from the slopestyle, but it didn't come out really well because of the weather.
Jan 20 2006 1:04AM
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PurpleSkier
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Did you get any shots of my rodeos?
Jan 20 2006 1:05AM
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ajax
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Yeah, i got both of all of the expert skiers runs. I was the kid sitting on that rock wall with the tripod inbetween both jumps. Nice runs by the way.I wish i could've entered, but my toe is broken and I'm in a cast. Oh well...
Jan 20 2006 1:12AM
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PurpleSkier
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How do they look? I don't get to see any video of my tricks very often. Haha. You should hook me up, haha.
Jan 20 2006 1:35AM
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ajax
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they looked good, if you really wanted to i could show you sometime, or maybe put 'em on a disk and give it to you, let me know
Jan 20 2006 12:39PM
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KingShit
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If it's not too much of a hastle you should upload the video on here and let us all see it.
Jan 20 2006 1:12PM
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ajax
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I'll try, but i'm not too good with computers.
Jan 20 2006 1:13PM
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ajax
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My computer is really slow, or else i don't know what i'm doing, but i can't get the video on the web. sorry
Jan 20 2006 3:21PM
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ajax
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The video clip just loaded, and to check it out go to videos, then jumps, and it is called jake's slopestyle run
Jan 20 2006 3:59PM
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PurpleSkier
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word dude, ill. I can just dl it from there.
Jan 20 2006 5:06PM
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NWFlow
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Those jumps look pretty fun.
Jan 20 2006 8:26PM
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Literature
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I like the gap on the boxes, it is fun. They should lose the snow though, it would be fun to watch people eat major shit.
Jan 21 2006 1:20AM
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PurpleSkier
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That last jump was super fun after I cleared all the snow off of it. I was doing huge cork threes, and rodeo mutes tweaking the mute as hard as I could. Hooray for a cool jump, now it just needs to be bigger!
Jan 21 2006 4:34PM
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AwR
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i did today david, it was bad, i was skiing and i was going to try to switch up on it but i had too much speed and just ended up sliding it on my ass and then like gapping it and falling on my face, i was laughing the whole time so it was fun, the jumps are so sick now, throwing down is inevidable if thats how you spell it
Jan 22 2006 12:03AM
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NWFlow
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inevitable
Jan 22 2006 1:55AM
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NWFlow
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^maybe
Jan 22 2006 1:55AM
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Literature
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It is only getting better.
Jan 22 2006 10:51AM
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Literature
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If you end up in the park, watch out for the hits being a bit fast, as I nearly killed myself today hitting them for the first time.
Jan 23 2006 10:57PM
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Stan_Darsh
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yeah. and the stepdown is bigger now and more lippy. its way siccker but you come in super fast. i tried a switch 5 on saturday and overrotated i beleive and got knocked out.
Jan 24 2006 12:37AM
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ajax
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I heard that they have some new rails, including an s-rail, but my source is sort of unrelieable. Has anyone else heard this, and if so, what did you hear?
Jan 24 2006 8:19PM
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Literature
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Your source is a shithead. I would seriously kick someone in the balls with my tecnicas on if they started spouting shit like that. I wish we had an S rail, but this year we have only two new boxes and a tiny, as in like 5 ft long up-flat rail.
Jan 24 2006 8:42PM
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PurpleSkier
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The park is pretty huge now, well for big mountain standards at least. I'll have some pictures of today soon. I won't care about this park once our pipe is done, if it ever gets done.
Jan 24 2006 8:47PM
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ajax
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That sucks man, but my hopes weren't too high because that's the way this kid is. This is no joke, he said that big mtn has 35 new rails and boxes. oh well, those boxes are kind of fun though
Jan 24 2006 8:57PM
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Stan_Darsh
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yeah but i dont liek the new box/rail setup, but you havnt hit it up yet because of your injury... but i cant wait for you to recover because no one else or our friends likes to hit up the park. we will have to have mad sessions. and i ordered those goggles and a new helmet, if i didnt tell you already, and im going to steamboat this weekend
Jan 25 2006 12:01AM
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PurpleSkier
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Here's some pictures from Monday. The park is big enough to launch some shit and throw down. Check it:

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Jan 25 2006 5:30PM
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ajax
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nice pics, i'd like to see some with the jump in them though, but those are good, nice and clear
Jan 25 2006 7:34PM
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Stan_Darsh
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yeah sick pics
Jan 25 2006 7:39PM
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Literature
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Nice pics jake.
Jan 25 2006 8:57PM
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linelogan
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the big mtn park got gay this weekend... they fucked the flat down box so it's not even fun anymore and you cant try stuff on it without forsure death and the rail are all setup weird
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Jan 26 2006 7:00PM
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PurpleSkier
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dude, don't be a pussy, i hit all the features, theyre fine
Jan 26 2006 7:09PM
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ajax
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i haven't been up there, but maybe they are hitable, but not easily trickable, just food for thought, any news on the halfpipe?
Jan 26 2006 10:37PM
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PurpleSkier
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If it gets below 24 degrees they'll start blowing it. They want to fill up the whole trench. So don't expect it anytime soon.
Jan 26 2006 10:57PM
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ajax
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at least that's a start, i can't ski anyway for 4 more weeks with a broken toe, it sucks
Jan 26 2006 11:27PM
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switch_9
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it could be worse, trust me.
Jan 27 2006 12:01AM
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Stan_Darsh
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that may be, but alex is a skiing fool. thats his life
Jan 27 2006 12:33AM
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PurpleSkier
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Fuck, my ankle might be broken. I've got to get xrays in the morning.
Jan 27 2006 12:38AM
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Stan_Darsh
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how did that happen
Jan 27 2006 12:41AM
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PurpleSkier
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Here's something I posted in a cult:

So, Tommorow is going to be a pivotal day. I'll find out if my season is shot, or if I'm just out for a week or two. I pulled a Simon Dumont today, and overshot hard. We sessioned the park in the morning for awhile, went and had lunch, tore around on some fast groomers since our mountain was solid ice today, and then went to the park again around like 1pm. I come down, hit the first two jumps, and come into the third switch, speed check twice, think I'm good, come off, switch five, and then i see that I've missed the landing completely. Here's a little diagram of it. The red line is my trajectory.

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I landed on solid ice, no give at all, on my feet, rode it about 5 feet, and then I couldn't stand the pain on my ankles. I sit and recover for a few minutes, and head down. My boots are racefit now, and so I skied down without much flex, so I thought I was ok. Come into the flat down rail, do a switch lipslide disaster onto it. My favorite trick for the rail. come off, and i realize i'm still all fucked up, destroy myself on the rail. Today was not my day. So I get to my car, take off my boots, and I can hardly stand. Any weight kills me, and everytime I move my left ankle it pops and grinds. My right ankle is just super sore. So I hobble to my car, drive home, and chill out with ice all night. Here I am now. I hate overshooting. Tommorow if it shows nil or no improvement, I'm going to get xrays. Then I'll find out if I have a season left or not. But I'm stuck in my bed, it's rad. No walkie for jakey. I guess it's only fair, I had three really awesome days for shooting pictures with my photographer, and was rock solid everyday, all day. So I guess I got over confident or something. If my seasons dead, I'm ok with it, I'm the new posterboy for my local mountain. Yeah!
Jan 27 2006 12:45AM
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ajax
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oh man, that sucks, my injury doesn't seem so bad after all,
Jan 27 2006 1:14AM
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ajax
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nice diagram as well
Jan 27 2006 1:18AM
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