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CRAIGLEITH as of right now...

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FUUUCK
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what's the park looking like? I'm kinda stuck there tomorrow.
Dec 28 2007 9:03PM
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FUUUCK
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oh dear...they dont have any rails at all!

this is torture, all my friends are going to craigleith, but i have a superpass to blue.

skiing a good park alone for free vs. hitting boxes with friends for $50...
Dec 28 2007 10:01PM
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schism
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no one goes to alpine these days.

Dec 28 2007 10:23PM
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JFerg
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Take Blue, there will be enough people riding there you can ride with.
Dec 29 2007 4:48PM
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FUUUCK
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wow, I hate to say it, but only at craigleith has the park gotten consistently worse each year.

the jump was completely flat. there were no rails, and every box was ride on.

Two seasons ago their park was the shit, what happened?
Dec 29 2007 8:30PM
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Pippin
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the weird thing I've found with private clubs is there usually the slowest to get there stuff going, i was at Georgian peaks(another private club the other side of Craig) and they only had three runs open and a couple rails. It amazes me that even places like dag and mslm can be 100% , but places where families pay 50 grand a year can only have a few runs open. Surely they have enough cash to throw on some snowblowers, anyways just my opinion, basically private clubs are really slow.
Dec 29 2007 11:49PM
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UNREAL
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alpines park is pretty decent
Dec 30 2007 12:08AM
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JFerg
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Private clubs aren't slow, they just have different priorities compared to public hills. Public hills are concerned with bringing in more skiers, equaling more revenue. Private clubs generate revenue from member fees and ski school/race school. Having a sick park benefit a private hill as much as it would a public one. Most members are of an older generation, and many of the younger people skiing there are involved in either teaching or race programs. They all build parks to satisfy the small portion of their members that ride park, but for most families, a good park is hardly a deciding factor when choosing a hill to become a member at. That being said, Beaver Valley has it's head in the game and usually puts together the best private park in Ontario. Alpine usually does well, GP and Craigleith are never very impressive. Osler has a decent park, and above all, Caledon has a park better than Blue and Louis put together. Check it out.
Dec 30 2007 8:32AM
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Pippin
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thats very true with the park, but why only have three runs open, we know they have the money to throw on their snowblowers
Dec 30 2007 11:51AM
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FUUUCK
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I was comparing it to previous years I visited Craigleith, not blue or MSLM.

I realize a half decent park is low on their list of priorities, but they dont seem to be putting nearly as much effort into the park compared to past seasons.
Dec 30 2007 4:15PM
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Pippin
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haha, right remember last year at this time, blue didn't have anything haha, but we should be thankful for the generous snow we've gotten this year, blue's getting there
Dec 30 2007 6:32PM
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FUUUCK
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for 1 more day...
Dec 30 2007 8:07PM
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beardstatus
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craig now has like a 25 and a 15 which are fun
Jan 2 2008 10:12AM
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schism
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alpine is really stepping up the park this year. THey have some decent sized jumps, decent rails and a big ass battleship box. Everyone come an check it out.
Jan 4 2008 10:01PM
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birdshake
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alpine is actually really decent this year all but two runs are open as of today

the park has a flat down rail then a box and an up rail beside it then two decent sized jumps then a massive battle ship box which is followed by an up gap to down box and a 20 foot keg box and a hip and a backwars wail tail to a 20 foot rail to a 10 foot rail then to a 20 foot sort of urban rail and a c box a rainbow rail a fdf rail to a 20 foot box thats high of the ground and the super pipes probably been the best groomed since day one then it ever has been in the past
Jan 5 2008 10:21PM
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AhrenStein
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha are you retarded?
Jan 6 2008 2:32PM
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Pippin
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Sorry forgot to put per year, yah its a big difference...its a life time membership that 50, 000  but thats still a lot. Plus annual fees and ski passes. And if the club wants to put up a new chairlift, they just ask everyone for 5 grand(it happened just this year for Georgian peaks) so it adds up.
Jan 6 2008 5:33PM
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UNREAL
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word, its dope
Jan 6 2008 9:15PM
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AhrenStein
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only osler is 50,000. Devils Glen comes in close at 45,000. Peaks Craigleth and Alpine all around 25000. Beaver Valley at about 20,000 (gone up from 12,000 last year) and mansfeild at about 4000. Check your numbers bro
Jan 6 2008 11:24PM
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JFerg
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Yuuup. This is all truth. And remember these are just initiation fees, you pay that much once and then around 1000-2000 per year for annual dues. And at alot of private clubs, there's pretty big waiting lists to get in. Osler is something rediculous like 5-10 years.
Jan 7 2008 9:46AM
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Pipe_Munky
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the Beav puts together an amazing park because it is essentially the home of organized freestyle skiing in ontario. having arguably the best run freestyle program in ontario and the training home of the SOR team (ahren correct me if im wrong) will definately come into play when putting a park together.



are you guys sure about Georgian Peaks only being $20,000? that seems pretty low to me.

Jan 7 2008 12:32PM
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AhrenStein
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last i heard it was around 25k. may have gone up from there though
Jan 7 2008 4:09PM
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schism
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last time i checked, alpine and craig were at 30g,osler was at 50g and gp was at 32g i had no idea that devils glen was that much. they must have their shit togather
Jan 7 2008 6:27PM
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birdshake
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I heard that the part of the ridge that georgian peaks is on is shifting and all the snow making pipes are cracking and splitting so they gotta replace them with new flexible pipes and they gotta bury them deeper soo thats probably why they only had like 3 runs open  and i doubt its gonna get better anytime soon.
Jan 7 2008 9:36PM
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jamiebrowne
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man you guys check this shit? wack
Jan 7 2008 9:49PM
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schism
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saw in a ski canada a couple years back. I wanted to see how much my parents pay for mediocre skiing.
Jan 7 2008 10:45PM
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Ronix
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I'm heading up to craigleith thursday, what's there park looking like now?
Jan 26 2008 6:02PM
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Pippin
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skied it today and will tomorrow. For a private club its a sick park, only one rail(rainbow) so thats a con. they have 3 sets of jumps the first two both with options and the last one is a huge step up. Its a great park and everything was super nice today
Jan 26 2008 6:53PM
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birdshake
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the park at alpine has pretty much stayed the same

the re-did the super pipe after the melt down and its no longer super, its narrower than Hank Hills urethra
Jan 26 2008 7:34PM
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suzia
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i will be there in t minus 15 hours. i better be impressed

Jan 30 2008 5:55PM
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Pippin
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the urban style rail looked pretty sketchy....didn't see one person hit it all weekend
Jan 30 2008 6:54PM
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jp_draves
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any update on the park im heading out next week?
Feb 10 2008 3:56PM
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jp_draves
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any new updates? im heading out in a couple of days.
Feb 14 2008 11:10PM
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jp_draves
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no like this wednesday. I know it'll be fun no matter what but what are there jumps like? size?
Feb 15 2008 8:36AM
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schism
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i'll be there on sunday for a comp
Feb 15 2008 4:14PM
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UNREAL
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yeah i was there, its alright
Feb 17 2008 7:23PM
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