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Coordinated and Colaborated Mountain Updates Thread.
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Ok. So Everyone pick your favorite resort, or choose delagates from each resort constituency and post the updates for the Mountain you most frequent. Say if some person goes to Sunshine, then post Sunshines updates. If someone frequents COP then post the snowgun progress.
Of course if you always want, you can go to a website and look for youself rather than getting biased and sometimes silly opinions from Regional Forumers.
I pick to give the current 10-4 on Fernie.
Its goin' RAIN....
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yeah COP has pretty intense snow. The groomers were tracking it up and breaking all the ice and stuff today. Looks like theyre starting to pile snow up for the lips to the kickers too. The pipe isnt nearly as high as its supposed to be, but with the cold weather coming it shouldnt be too long.
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u bastard, stupid school kept me from going, anyways how was the temp?
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Sunshine tomorrow is gonna be epic...just, ridiculously cold! With windchill that mother is supposed to be like -29 and thats pretty nippy if you ask me. Better dress well boys and girls!
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we have between 70-80 guns going right now, we are maxed out at what the city will allow us to blow with the water. The toilets in the 90m tower barely work, same with water fountains we are using so much pressure right now. FYI
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thats good to know, i really hope they get the top rail park up and open soon, i really want to hit some good rails soon!
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i was at cop all week for my level 1 instructor course and it was cool to see how the park went from no snow to like 5 feet of snow in a week
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it wasn't too cold at sunshine on Friday,just cold at the top of the angel chair when the wind blew.
the past two Fridays at sunshine have been so good.
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i had a chat with Wade today, he is saying 2 weeks till the park is fully open, give or take, we will be blowing for at least the next 5 days, then the pipe will need some work and the rest of the snow pushed about into fun lumps.
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Yo so kicking horse is opening early now, i was talking to a guy last night who works there and they have gotten 207cms of snow in the last 7 days, so yes it is opening on the second and is probibly going to stay open
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hmmm...i told you so comes to mind?? jk haha
but yea ben, you missed out man...it was only like -10, snowing, decent light, and fucking deeeeep snow everywhere...best early season skiing i've ever experienced!!
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Its FUCKING COLD out today, COP is not opening this morning, too cold, we will reasses at 11 if we are going to open at noon, hows that for up to the minute updates eh bitches.
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the shine was sick yesterday, but fucking cold. i got to ski with tj schiller!
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louise was gnarly today. way to cold to even have fun. minus 32 at one point
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^ i heard there was supposed to be an inversion up there this weekend? wonder what hapend..
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tj and michelle parker were just hanging out in fresh with us for a bit, vut i wan it to get warm, wed high is -20 and thurs high is -1 which is good !!!!!!!!!!! suposedly a week or so for cop jumps@!
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awww it they open the jumps and its -1 i will be sooo happy. dammm that will be right around the time i get my ar5s in the mail too!
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err read my post half way up the page.
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Louise was really good on Saturday, It was a tad cold but not unbearatable. Best day at louise this year. The back side is filling in nicely, there still needs to be about another meter of snow or more to cover up the bigger rocks. Suppose to snow all week and warm up a bit, the makings for a good weekend.
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the dive was DOPE on sunday like 250 meters into hayes hill passed the pillows was like waste deep.
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well since im doing th nakiska updates here goes my first one:
here is a list of what sounds like will be all the stuff in nakiskas 2 parks, elbow being the main park and homsteader being the beginer/intermediate park, it sounds like they got alot of new boxes and rails, i just hope the jump in the elbow park are bigger than what is written down!
Elbow Park
Features
Drop in mound for "M" and "L" lines (a fence between the lines will improve safety).
Flat down box "M". New Box. Ride on small drop off.
Down rail "L". Existing rail. Air on/off.
Flat rail "M". Existing rail. Ride on small drop off.
Roler jump "L". 25' lip to top of landing.
Rainbow rail "L". Existing rail. Ride on/off.
Table top "M". 15' lip to landing.
Butter box "M". 15' long deck, 5' from takeoff to deck, 5' from deck to landing.
Step-up "L". 25' lip to top of roller.
Battleship rail "L". Existing rail. Ride on drop off.
Table top "M". 25' lip to landing.
Table top "L". 40' lip to landing.
Table top "L". 30' lip to landing.
Battleship box "M". New box. Ride on drop off.
Flat up flat rail "L". Existing rail, air on/off.
Flat down flat rail "L". Existing rail, air on/off.
Flat rail "M". Existing rail, air on/off.
C-Wall "L". New box. Wall ride and C box combo.
Pyramid "M". Equal transitions on all sides.
Roller jump "M". 15' lip to landing.
Hip "M". Landing starts at back of jump.
Spine with rail on top "M". 2' lip to rail, 2' rail to back of spine.
Homesteader Park
Features
A - Mini snowcross "S" area. A series of rollers and berms for riders to use from top to bottom without stopping
B - "S" line. All features in this line will be "S" features
C- "M" line. All features in this line will be "M" features ending at Silver Rd.
Drop in mound for all three lanes.
Berms. 5' in height and angled inward to guide riders through the snowcross.
Rollers. These will be in between berms where space allows and will not exceed 5' in height.
Varied length roller "S". 3' high and longer on the left than the right. This feature will allow riders to progress from jumping a small distance to a longer distance by working their way across the roller.
6' flat box "S". Existing box. Ride on with snow 2' from the top on sides and back.
Up-dip-down roller "S". 5' high at top of rollers, 3' at centre of the dip.
Roller jump "S". 5' high with a small tapered drop at the peak of the roller. Intro to step down style features.
16' flat box "S". New box. Ride on with snow 6" from top on sides and back.
Roller jump "S". 5' high with tapered drop 5' before peak of roller. Intro to tabletop style features.
Double roller "S". Both rollers 3' high with more distance in between them on left than right. This feature allows riders to progress to riding tighter rollers and to jumping from one roller to the next at longer lengths.
16' rainbow box "S". New box. Ride on with snow 2" from top on sides and back.
Roller jump "S". 5' high with tapered drop 10' before peak of roller. Intro to step-up style features.
Double roller "M". 6' and 4' high rollers evenly spaced and close enough to jump from one to the other.
24' urban flat box "M". New box. Small air on with snow 1' from top on sides and back.
Hip "M". 8' high at peak. Riders turn to the left in the air and travel as far as they wish.
Tabletop "M". 10' high deck with lip 15' from top of landing.
16' flat down box "S". New box. Ride on with snow 6" from top on sides and back.
Off camber rollers "S". 3' high on short side, 5' on high side spaced close enough to jump from one to the other.
16' flat box "S". New box. Ride on with snow 1' from top on sides and back.
16' up flat box "S". New box (16' flat down installed backwards). Ride on with snow 6" from top on sides and back.
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so they will only have two good tables? 30 and 40 fts?
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sounds like the jumps are gonna suck
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im hoping they are underestimating the jump size, they better have some big fun regular nakiska jumps
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it sounds creative, it will probably be fun for a week, then it will be boring.
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jump measurements are only to the knoll though so add 10-15 at least to the sweet spots...decent sized tables...regular for their park imo
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sounds sweet, cant wait to get for nakiska to open, what is the estimated timeline on that park?
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i hear louise's park is going to be shitty this year, because they are aiming to be more family oriented so most of the park builders quit...just a rumor dont take ti seriously unless others have heard the sme
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ahhh that would really suck cuz they had a sweet park at the end of the year last year...well im not sure what it was like earlier cuz i never went....but still thats gonna blow....
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for nakiska the top park is suppoed to be open the 2nd weekend that its open, so like 2 weeks from now
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the official proposed opening dates for COP's big park is Dec 8 for the park, and 9th for the pipe, the little park at the top is now open aswell.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Louise did make their park more family orientated they kindof seem to be regressing
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Don't go to kicking horse! IT was soooo bad man. brutal! there goes my skis and the wind slab was shitty.
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cop opened up the top park/jib area...setup is as follows:
skiers left to right...
big flat box gap on and off...battleship rail with a decent jump on..."street style" down rail
the big green barrel rail...two roller options into a 5x5' step down
couple of little tables that are pretty fun to dick around on
shits seeming to be set up a loooot better than in the past...im stoked for the rest of the park to open
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^well heres hopin it opens up with this warm weather....bahh why does it have to get warm
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it looks similar to last year, but with more rails/boxes, but it looks like there will be only 2 tables, and not 3 like last year, but i guess we will wait and see what happens
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we are pretty much done blowing, its just pushing it around into fun lumps for the next few days so it shouldnt matter that its warmer
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lets all hope and pray for a gnar ass setup this year at cop!! just judging by the look of the top i think everything is gonna be fuckin GOLD this year!!!!
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that one little table at the top is gold. I'm spinning more off that this year than i was off the big tables last year
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its fun to do cab butters off the mini step down!!
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if you guys knew who some of the groomers who are working at COP are this year you would shit yourself, anyone like the old nakiska set up like 2-3 years ago, yup clays now at cop, anyone heard of superpark, yup both clay and neil are at cop, and Wade wants to make a name for himself to so he has big plans. Clay i would have to say is one of the best park builders i have ever seen, and one of the few guys i know who will hit everything he makes to make sure its perfect every time (he guinea pigged the biggest table at superpark before any pros)
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ahhh dope! k im not depressed anymore
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