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Park Passes

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SnowRidgeParks
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So I'm looking to get park passes at my mountain next year. I'm just not exactly sure how they work. If a resort has park passes, what do you have to do in order to get one? How do you enforce them? Do they work? If anyone can help that'd be sick, thanks...
Mar 19 2006 11:44PM
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wdbo.
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when you go to get your pass they ask you if you want a park pass and if you say yes the make you sign waivers and stuff
if you dont have a pass you cant get in the park therefore keeping gapers and shit out
Mar 20 2006 12:06AM
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DuncanK
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Its a real good system, this was Winter Parks first year doing it and it allowed them to get bigger jumps and way more techy rails without intrawest flipping shit..it makes it ideal to film in without the gapers snaking you and dropiing on you, but pretty much you pay the $20 or whatever it costs and show your pass to the park crew and they let you in
Mar 20 2006 12:10AM
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mattster
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im interested in how the park passes are enforced
Mar 20 2006 12:53AM
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french_fry
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fences around it, separated from the other park, altough you coulc sneak in the blackcomb HL if you really wanted to...
Mar 20 2006 1:11AM
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chapz
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basically this little pass you have, no picture. when you go to the park, theres a little hut for the park crew. they check to see if you have one. if you dont, you get kicked out. the park is fenced all around and there are peoplethat check for your pass, even midway down the park
Mar 20 2006 12:15PM
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chrismoJBEATS
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park passes are great
i totaly like the idea so little kids that blow and parents dont go throught like its a trail
Mar 20 2006 12:26PM
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stylishskier
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little kids that ride over lips, off the sides of rail jumps etc can still get them, along with their parents who all clog up the terrain parks... saw it the other day at stratton...
Mar 20 2006 2:39PM
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ski_cartel
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i like the idea, but my mountian prob wont do it cause they dont have the staff to enforce it
Mar 20 2006 2:45PM
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Billiards.
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There was a whole damn family at PC the other day. They sat on the flat of the jumps for like 5 minutes each jump.
Mar 20 2006 3:04PM
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billy092
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so wat stops faggots from gettting a park pass? or there limits like you have to be able to blah blah?
Mar 20 2006 5:12PM
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CBROOKS
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they just dont think of it, want to spend the money for it.
Mar 20 2006 5:16PM
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rippinbumpskier
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i wish loon had one
Mar 20 2006 5:23PM
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billy092
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ohh alright, but idk some kids just really like to piss ppl off, idk but wat def. should stop is ppl giving lessons for 5 yr olds in the park, its so stupid, limiting the ppl that could go in the park would be a sick idea
Mar 20 2006 5:23PM
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SBP
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i wish all hills had them. parks would have more money to put towards getting new features and it would keep them in better riding condition. also keeping the kids that wouldnt be in there out.
Mar 20 2006 5:24PM
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Snowcase
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filming would be so awesome without 50 billion little kids and their parents who yell at you for hitting a jump and their kid going right under you. "why did you just jump over my child you idiot? why did you let your child ski under me you idiot?"
Mar 20 2006 5:31PM
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n-o
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yea they are great .. i dont have a problem with ppl learning but that is what a beginnwer park is for so with park passes you dont get huge nubs cutting you off
Mar 20 2006 5:31PM
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timmi
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i go to a resort with a park pass, and one without, and the one with the pass is so much better. it has cleaner hits, bigger hits, less used,
its just a good thing to have, and i am gunna recomend it to my main hill next year.
Mar 20 2006 5:31PM
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billy092
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so tog is getting park passes next year maybe?
Mar 20 2006 5:33PM
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1440ski
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I wish pc had park passes for kings and pic and shovel that would be so nice no damn gapers.
Mar 20 2006 5:38PM
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IAMGODLIKE___NOT
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thats a pretty sweet idea nick but because tog is so small and because hicki is so much of a dick i doubt it will happen
Apr 15 2006 4:39PM
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dweezileast
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for sure!
Apr 15 2006 6:06PM
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theORANGEshovel
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that would be so nice....cause we have a lift that goes straight to the park and you can ride that lift...our manager is all saftey cause he doesnt want people to get hurt and keep gay little kids out that sit in the landings cause they dont know how to hit the jump
Apr 15 2006 8:06PM
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396222687862
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jiminy started using them this year. I mean its nice and all, keeps lots of gapors out, but theres still tons of them. Its a free pass, all you gotta do is sign a form and watch a safety video, and it def. appears that hardly anyone was paying attention. So jim still has the gapers, just little less now
Apr 15 2006 8:09PM
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outerlimitz
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I hope killy institutes a park pass for the Wildfire Park. The inruns and landings are blind enough as it is. Although, I think it would be enough for just one person in group of 3 or 4 to have a pass. That way, you can show your non-park friends what you are working on, or if you bring a guest to your mountain ,and he or she wants to ski the park without paying 20 bucks for one day. If people are i nthere with someone with a pass, I think they should be cool.
Apr 15 2006 8:21PM
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dweezileast
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there should be a test or something, kinda like a road test. because all kind of people would get a park pass. you should have to be watched by a park staffer to make sure that you know the rules, and how to act etc
Apr 15 2006 9:47PM
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Snowcase
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what about me I don't have skillllllllz
Apr 15 2006 10:41PM
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madtownfreestyle
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i like the idea of the whole park pass thing...
Apr 16 2006 1:19PM
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SnowRidgeParks
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there's no reason for it not to happen. the mountain doesn't have to be big, and i'll just push the whole safety factor with jim. we're gonna do all we can in order to get them.
Apr 16 2006 1:33PM
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[poopsicle]
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yeah snoqualmie has 2 parks and a lift that goes directly to them. west park is smaller and is more for beginners, but central is pretty big. they should have park passes for central, and leave west open for everyone. that way, everyone wins. becuase there are a lot of gapers in the park ruining lips and it pisses me off.
Apr 16 2006 1:48PM
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