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Blackcomb Summer Park

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SMOOTHOPR8TR
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Planning a trip during 10-19 of June to Whistler/Blackcomb. What is the public park set up like at that time?
Apr 26 2006 5:30PM
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cj
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lame, and always will be lame...3 or 4 rails, small jump, long lines.
Apr 26 2006 7:59PM
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SMOOTHOPR8TR
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so your sayin its not even worth it?
Apr 27 2006 9:05AM
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peter.doubleu
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you should be find for line ups at the time, and hopefully the park will be better with all the snow but its not going to be anything great.
Apr 27 2006 6:11PM
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SMOOTHOPR8TR
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so not totally a waste of time. a few jumps and a few rails? worth the trip?
Apr 27 2006 6:42PM
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thecoyote
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Depends on from how far away you are coming. I wouldn't fly from anywhere.
Apr 27 2006 7:13PM
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Freestyla_01
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I drove up there last summer from vanouver and want my money back.
It's really not very good.
Apr 28 2006 4:21PM
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SMOOTHOPR8TR
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damn...i would be comin from the states.
Apr 28 2006 5:10PM
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J.D.
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Seems like a pretty pointless trip to me. The camps are a different story obviously.
Apr 28 2006 6:19PM
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peter.doubleu
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You would be better coming in may ( if you can ) when you can ski the whistler spring park.
Apr 28 2006 7:50PM
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Toast21602
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i'm coming may 6th, from PA. it should be worth it then... right? not just for the park, but for everything else it should be decent i hope.
Apr 28 2006 8:10PM
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mckeeman
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the mtn is super shredular right now.
Apr 28 2006 8:11PM
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SMOOTHOPR8TR
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unless i go to a camp its pointless????
Apr 28 2006 9:38PM
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peter.doubleu
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well the alpine is only open on weekends, and that doesnt stay open that long but you should be alright.
Apr 28 2006 10:27PM
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skippah_BC
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If your coming just to ski the summer park you will be dissapointed. I live never really going up cuz of the lameness. LIke htey said, a couple rails and a jump. But if your coming for other things like biking, lakes, drinking, dirt jumps, dirt skiing, golf, hiking, and patios then you'll be ok. I wouldn't base the entire trip around the summer park though cuz its not really worth it if your coming from further than Vancouver, but Whistler is super sweet in the summer and there's tons of other things to do too.

So yeah, come up.
Apr 29 2006 1:26AM
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Toast21602
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so the only time you can ski higher than the gondola is on the weekends?
Apr 29 2006 8:26AM
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peter.doubleu
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No theres two chairs above the gondola, but there kind of beside each other one operating one side of the mountain and the other operating the other side of the mountain. One of them also goes a bit lower down. But to get higher than that will only be on weekends, as long as snow permits, and i doubt that youll beable to ski any lower than those two chairs.

http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/whatsopen/index.htm
Apr 29 2006 12:35PM
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Justo8484
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it says that both t bars are running... arent they the lifts that will be servicing the highest level park on whistler?
Apr 30 2006 11:40PM
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Freestyla_01
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Because it's a weekend.
Monday-friday I think it's just emerald and peak chair or maybe just emerald and the gondola, I don't know.
May 1 2006 1:52AM
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thecoyote
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usually when they have the HL park open on whistler in glacier bowl there, they have the t bars open on the weekdays..but right now, the park is NOT by the t bars...so no need to open them.
May 1 2006 4:19AM
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AJFreestyle1080
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There has been no sign of this HL park appearing, annoying since I'm leaving end of this week.

Honestly I've been quite disappointed by WB over the past month. If they bothered to spread the big air jump snow out we would have had a ski out for another week or so. They have been really lazy with the grooming and the park on Whistler is not great. they have a few good setups but all in all, not good. Rant over
May 1 2006 5:04PM
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g-man
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^agreed
May 1 2006 5:13PM
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peter.doubleu
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I think that last year they just put the HL where the pipe/stompede course was. So maybe they will do that again this year.
May 1 2006 9:46PM
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thecoyote
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Well they are trying to remove the snow from A-line and such in order to open the bike park in a month (or so it says on the bike park website) So they are gunning for no ski out, but bike open.
May 1 2006 10:53PM
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AJFreestyle1080
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Ok I suppose thats fair. But generally they have been super lazy with the grooming. And closing Harmony, WTF its bad enough they closed my beloved Blackcomb! It's really put a downer on what has been an awesome season.
May 3 2006 12:09AM
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Freestyla_01
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The biggest downer on an awesome season is the fact that all the locals closed a month earlier than they could have.
May 3 2006 2:07AM
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hemlockjibber8
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the spring park will be the whistler park, beefed up. check out the park updates to get a feeling of what it is.

the park chair is always open, and peak and harmony are open on weekends
May 7 2006 12:13AM
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lordofthesaiyans
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all of this information, and most of the other posts are useless and do not relate in any way to the question.

the kid is going to be here from june 10 on, at which time whistler mountain is closed. there are two t bars on the glacier on blackomb, one that services the pub park and another for a few camps. there was one jump, one flat bar, and one c box in the public park last year.. pretty weak, but i managed to have have a lot of fun and work on shit. if you really want to ski it is worth the trip, and you can hang out at some sweet lakes and find teen pussy in the evening.
May 8 2006 1:20AM
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peter.doubleu
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Maybe next time you could read the whole thread so you dont look like a fool. If you had you would have seen that his question was answered in the first post. I was simply trying to help someone else out who had asked, "i'm coming may 6th, from PA. it should be worth it then... right? not just for the park, but for everything else it should be decent i hope." and i think that I did a pretty darn good job of it. So next time Ill only answer the first guys question so that we can have an other thread on a simillar topic.
May 8 2006 7:55PM
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skippah_BC
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Yeah the effort on the park has been a little disappointing on Whistler. I can't believe they didn't open the hits by the top of Emerald after the stompede!! They were all set up and ready to go!!! And even if they aren't going to open those up, they could at least do something with all that snow. It's just sitting there going to waste when they could use it to beef up some stuff in the lower park, or make something new.

This is bullshit!!
May 9 2006 5:17AM
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Snu
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and Skipp never gets mad, it must be serious bullshit up there.
May 13 2006 4:07AM
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kjfreerider
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i remember one year when public park was super sicktacular after COC closed. cbox to big flat bar to flat down flat to afram
May 18 2006 10:22PM
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peter.doubleu
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there going to have a pipe this year!
May 22 2006 1:55PM
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dbrizz
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fuck why waste the snow on a shitty pipe when they can't build one decent jump.
May 24 2006 12:05AM
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