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Windham vs. Stowe railjams

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N.Diddy
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-Who went to windham and who went to stowe.
-post ur edits and pictures in here
-which do u think was more fun
-which year do u think was the best
-were there any good skiers at stowe
-what was stowes setup
May 24 2008 8:31PM
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VT_scratch
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STOWE FO SHO!

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brand new C box

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flat down box

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40 ft flat bar

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up rail to drop off.

tons of more stuff set up but i didnt get pics of it all.

here a pic of the setup before all the lips were made/during setup
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STOWE FTW


May 24 2008 8:39PM
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VT_scratch
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oh yea and there was a flat box you cant see in the picture to the right of the flat down box at the top.


May 24 2008 8:41PM
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N.Diddy
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nice looks like a butter box.

anybody else
May 24 2008 8:47PM
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PilleDaKid
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I went to the windham rail jam
May 24 2008 8:48PM
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Gnl.Weirdness
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dunno why it has to be stowe vs. windham. Both places hold legit events.

I gotta give my props to Kurt at stowe though, he was handed shitty trails this winter, he did his best with them. And then he made up for it by hosting prolly the most legit jam I have ever been to on the east coast.

Not only that, but he let us craft the lips and help him set the entire thing up. Not a single lip got rutted out the entire time of the jam with well over 150-200 kids sessioning it all day.

Not only that, but he was adding features as people requested them and working on shit the entire time making sure t stayed legit.

I take back anything I ever said about the parks at Stowe, and I am pretty sure next season Stowe WILL have one of the nicest parks on the East Coast hands down.

I hope windham was legit, will post footy from Stowe when we get it from everyone.


Props def go out to Kurt and Kim and everyone else involved, so epic.
May 24 2008 11:17PM
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alev
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thats very unlike him, after all of the requests we gave him all year.

i think the meeting that fst and the uvm st had with him helped, at least i hope
May 24 2008 11:28PM
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eastAR5
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clearly the stowe... considering myself and enlighter had the great opportunity to basically design the course, DJ all day, free redbull and 10x the snow


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May 24 2008 11:29PM
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eastAR5
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nah uvm freestyle had no part in this
May 24 2008 11:30PM
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N.Diddy
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i just made this thread to see feedback from both events
May 24 2008 11:41PM
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N.Diddy
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heres my crews edit of windham

http://mikesweet11.blip.tv/file/933585/
May 24 2008 11:44PM
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Gnl.Weirdness
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He had shitty trails to work with man, the park trail on Spruce is a joke of a trail for a park, way to much of a slope to it.

And he did his best with the park on North.

Also unlike him or not, Adrian Charollete and I all helped him set shit up and he basically let us design the entire thing. Even moved shit around after it had already been placed so it would work out best for skiers and boarders.

Maybe your requests where just unrealistic. I know you guys tried to get him to build bigger jumps on North, which was not possible without loosing an entire section of jibs.

Doesn't matter, next season he will have better shit to work with and he def knows what he is doing.


But yeh here are some set up pics.

Stowe Jam Set UpKurtView up the trailGuard RailQuick PoachMyspace or myspace?Better viewC box YESUp railJam viewJam view

Hope to have footy and more pics tomorrow.



May 25 2008 12:06AM
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skiRay
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Windham!!  http://mikesweet11.blip.tv/file/933585/

i bet stowe was sicker though
May 25 2008 12:14AM
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alev
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putting a park on spruce was a never a good idea, ad north was never designed to be a full park.

i doubt he wanted to put a park there either. and i agree he did a great job with what he had, but knowing they used to have some nice features, i (unrealistically) wanted to see an expansion of the park and just add a few more features, but given the layout and shitty situation, it wasnt possible.

i should correct myself. i was never that bummed with the park, although i wanted to see it changed a bit here and there. i was around a ton of people who said it sucked, but i was happy with it. i know they tried to make a legit park early in the year on spruce, but the rain washed it all out, and after that it was hard to build anything too big back up. but everything on northslope was always groomed nicely and in good condition, for the most park.

i know its gonna be better next year, so im psyched about that for sure
May 25 2008 12:22AM
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Gnl.Weirdness
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word, bummer they didn't have more snow, looks like you all made the best of it though. Sick for sure.
May 25 2008 12:24AM
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eastAR5
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no your right it definitely sucked this year..... horrible for lapping, no flow, shitty features for the most part. but like you said, neither of those trails are good for setting up features

pre season on those 3 little jibs was more fun for me than the whole winter
May 25 2008 12:31AM
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Gnl.Weirdness
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nah the downrail was so sick, 40ft urban on. When that was originally set up it was so burly.
May 25 2008 12:48AM
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sugarloaf
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what the fuck stowe. you have a shitty park (the SAME shitty park) all year then after the season ends you make a dope setup? windham was dope and I'm not complaining about that cause I got to ski in may, but it wasn't like that. fuck.
May 25 2008 1:01AM
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Gnl.Weirdness
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told ya it'd be off the hook :: )
May 25 2008 1:06AM
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dweezileast
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i agree cawleeen
May 25 2008 1:07AM
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dweezileast
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just in time for the (summer) season!
May 25 2008 1:26AM
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Gnl.Weirdness
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haha whatever, least it's ready to go for next season.
May 25 2008 1:30AM
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steezyjibber
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windham was pretty good but i liked it just maybe a tad more last year
i might go to stowe next year
May 25 2008 8:09AM
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Treestman
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i was at windham, stowe does look like they had more room between fetures, more snow, and less ruts in the lips and landings, but stowe is 6 hours away, windham is 2, i dont think it woulda been worth the extra drive
May 25 2008 11:15AM
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Capurnicus
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what the fuck why didnt i even know about this, i totally would have gone there...fuck...
May 25 2008 11:22AM
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crooks
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i'm exporting my edit of stowe right now.
May 25 2008 1:28PM
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eastAR5
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no in my opinion the down rail was never sick
May 25 2008 1:56PM
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eastAR5
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here's a quick stowe edit (sean's)

http://blip.tv/file/934899?filename=Smw0977-StoweRailJam851.mov



haha and yes i did a lot of falling
May 25 2008 2:33PM
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crooks
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word i just uploaded to blip.tv, here's a better link...

http://blip.tv/file/934899?filename=Smw0977-StoweRailJam851.mov
May 25 2008 2:42PM
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BrightonFridays
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my dumb ass school decided to take a community service trip to fuckin Milwaukee Wisconsin and  didn't get home till yesterday and missed the stowe jam im sooo pissed it looked like such a good time
May 25 2008 3:14PM
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Alkyy
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looked dope, wish i could have made it
May 25 2008 3:29PM
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eastAR5
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it's what happens when they let NS kids help design a park
May 25 2008 3:37PM
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404404
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Stowe sucks
May 25 2008 3:46PM
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LostCarKeys
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^
May 25 2008 4:06PM
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Gnl.Weirdness
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haha andy a hater? No
May 25 2008 5:48PM
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eastAR5
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well it does suck for park.... jam just turned out to be super legit
May 25 2008 5:56PM
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infedel_one
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stowe was soooo bomber...from what ive seen of windham jam i think stowe was def. the better choice...looks like they made the best of it but Kurt was out there all day throwin down salt and shit nd by the time the jam ended we def. coulda kept at it cause nothin was wrong with any of the lips or landings....madddddd ffunnnn...also it didnt look like you could hit more than one rail at windham in a line cause of the steapness and setup and at stowe you could hit a burly 3 rail line on either side...FUCKIN KICKED ASS
May 25 2008 6:04PM
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jack_weisman
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i don't know why this has to be a competition of which one was better. i was at windham and i have seen some of the stuff from stowe, i mean obviously stowe had some pretty sick stuff setup but, saying one was the better choice is kinda of dumb because for a lot of us who attending windham, stowe was kinda out of the question, i mean i wasn't going to drive 6 hours for it. but what matters is that people had fun skiing at the end of may, and i sure did.
May 25 2008 7:03PM
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infedel_one
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^yah true your right...i mean im like 40 minutes from stowe but like 4 hours from windham...no big decision therrrr...both looked legit
May 25 2008 7:07PM
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SnowRidgeParks
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wowww, stowe had an ass ton of snow... did they harvest that from a super pipe or just stock pile at the end of the season?
May 25 2008 7:16PM
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eastAR5
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pipe
May 25 2008 7:19PM
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*T-Hobbs*
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Stowe was awesome- such a good set-up- props to stowe for listening to what kids wanted!
May 25 2008 7:34PM
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ryan.c
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from what i heard today at mount snow, stowe seemed like a better setup then windham, but both were fun
May 25 2008 7:51PM
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DrewR.
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stowe looked sick. .. WIndham was fun but i had a much better time at mt snow today it was mad fun

May 25 2008 8:09PM
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mtsnow was so sick yo
May 25 2008 8:42PM
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treesmann
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what was setup for mt snow??

i went to windham saturday and it was fun
May 25 2008 8:52PM
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eastAR5
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looked like mt snow had about 10 feet of snow... but i couldn't of even gone if i wanted to cuz i feel like got gang raped no homo

when you sit around for a month and do nothing and just drink and then go to hike park all day without streching at all , it doesn't feel to good right now
May 25 2008 8:57PM
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infedel_one
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was mt snow that sik...i was looking at the web cam nd it didnt look like they had that much up....kinda short flat rail..flat down box and butterish box...i mean it was prolly awwesome in person cause any skiing is awesome...but is there someone who went to stowe and mt snow who could compare the two
May 25 2008 8:59PM
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jack_weisman
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check out the pictures above those are pretty good, i just finished an edit for the line update at windham and you can check that on the line site when it goes up in a couple of days
May 27 2008 11:11PM
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Gnl.Weirdness
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More Pics from the jam

Courtesy of East Coast SNowboarding.

Me and Brad downing 40's
40's at stowe
DJ at stowe
Stowe JamStowe Jam Up rail40ft Flat at stoweStowe Up RailGuard RailGrab off the UpUp Rail AirC-Box slayedC-box tailGuard Rail

Props again to Kurt, adank, and charolotte for helping out and making shit happen.

Jam was SO legit.
Jun 4 2008 12:04AM
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jack_weisman
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edit i made at windham a couple of weekends ago. https://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/videos/id/193394/
Jun 4 2008 10:38AM
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