So yesterday (Sunday), it was a beautiful day. Cold, snowmakers going. Sunny. Good coverage on the top of holly where the boxes are. I was skiing with D_Jibb, Mills, and k2skier88, and we were riding from about 930am til 4pm or so.
Things were actually pretty good early on. The landings were made and the take off to the c-box was actually good. The take off to the flat box was still ridiculously too flat and mellow. I don't know who would like it like that, but whatever...
Around 2pm, everything was getting real rutted up. The take off was getting a HUDE groove in it, and the landing was very rutter also. And in those 4 hours, keep in mind we were hiking A LOT, we didn't see a member of the park crew even attempt to pick up a shovel to do any sort of maintenence. They didn't even rake in the little lines that they are so fond of!!!
So around 2pm, me and Dr_jibb decide something needs to be done, so we grab the shovels. Around that moment, some member of the park "staff" tells us not to do it, because then everyone will think they can go do it themselves when something is bad. He proceeds to tell Dr_jibb that they won't hold up very long, so they don't put ANY effort into maintaining them.
I guess I missed the part where it is their job to maintain things consistently, all day long. Me and Tyler put in 5 minutes, and had the take off and landing looking much better. And it held up for close to a half hour.
And then simply the complete showing of laziness. "They won't last so why bother maintaining them" attitude is total bullshit. If I had that attitude at my job, I would be fired so ridiculously fast. but I guess looking around at the majority of KB's staff, it doesn't surprise me all that much.
Also, they don't even ride the shit ever, so of course they don't care what it is like. I rarely if ever, see the park crew hitting features. They always stand around. Maybe once or twice a day I see them hit something.
I guess things aren't any different than they ever were. KB still can't get anything right. They need to go to MSLM and learn how to actually build a park.
That is Mount St. Louis Moonstone in Ontario. This year. And their weather isn't much different than it is here. They don't have more vert to work with. If anything, there are a number of runs at KB that have more potential that MSLM's park run.
The thing that MSLM has that KB doesn't and I doubt ever will, is actual committment by management. Their hits are maintained CONSTANTLY all day long, and the whole park is a huge priority of theirs.
