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TannerCoulter.
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whats the feeeelin? will they leave it or take it out for aspen open?

Jan 27 2009 7:37PM
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gstoneskier
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hope it stays channel gaps are sick. that Pep edit was awesome when he hit those back to back channel gaps.  i think they were channel gaps like unfinished ones.
Jan 27 2009 7:41PM
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wunderskier
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I don't think that they will.  But it would be gnarly if they did.
Jan 27 2009 7:41PM
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TannerCoulter.
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personally, i am scared shitless of it, and i think its prob too big of a liability
Jan 27 2009 7:42PM
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BennyV
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it seemed like it was a little too sketchy for the comp and riders seemed to be deducted for not hitting it. It wasnt helped by the constantly changing conditions either, def pretty sick tho
Jan 27 2009 7:47PM
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hellomynameisjef
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it was scary to look at
Jan 27 2009 7:48PM
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FUUUCK
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dumb feature to have 10 feet before an 85 foot step down
Jan 27 2009 8:10PM
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charmander
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i understand that gapping the channel is harder/scarier

but its only 3 feet farther than not gaapping the channel
Jan 27 2009 8:21PM
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willysworld
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they should push the jump down  a tad lower and reshape the whole thing build a hip on each side.. and a straight over kinda spine step down with hella steep take of..
Jan 27 2009 8:23PM
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Scott~
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Christ I cant believe that jump is getting so much support. I think its a dangerous piece of shit~
Jan 27 2009 8:25PM
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Alex_G
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CROSSOVER CANYON!
Jan 27 2009 8:28PM
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nathanielstyza
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what on earth are you talking about?
Jan 27 2009 8:29PM
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skithe49th
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channel gaps are sick in general but this one points us towards a straight up shit show
Jan 27 2009 8:29PM
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skodeo7
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There is no way in hell they'll keep that channel gap up.
Jan 27 2009 8:33PM
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Ben.
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exactly. the only way i could see them keeping it is if they widened the landings on it, and then pushed the next jump down quite a bit.
Jan 27 2009 9:17PM
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TannerCoulter.
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they should keep the two takeoffs but just fill in the massive gap. but i can't see where they would get that much snow. that jump will kill someone if it is left up.
Jan 27 2009 9:33PM
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linesteeze
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i wanna hit one
Jan 27 2009 9:40PM
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KravtZ
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im sure they wont keep the chanel maybe they will make something else its incredibly dangerou and the wrong type of people hitting it could be devistating
Jan 27 2009 9:47PM
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YetitheWookie
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It's a super sick hit that's for sure, but lets face it, that line was so tight it pretty much ruined the X-GAMES slopestyle...it messed too many riders up having the course so tight...my guess is if they keep it they'll have to either get rid of the jump before it, or like you guys said move the money booter down...
Jan 27 2009 11:02PM
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TannerCoulter.
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petition to get it taken out!???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jan 28 2009 8:58PM
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aidansheahan
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I was so pissed at our crew for making that thing, cause on a channel its fine if there is a wide landing because you can carve as much as you want away from the gap, but when its 10 feet wide its just dumb. and the lip of the last jump overlap's with it, soooo stupid...it will be gone i heard
Jan 28 2009 9:18PM
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TannerCoulter.
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hopefully.
Jan 29 2009 9:23AM
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Klick_2_klaim
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BRING BACK PARKASAURUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jan 29 2009 9:46AM
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Greenish
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i wanna do aspen open :(
Jan 29 2009 9:50AM
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TannerCoulter.
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anyone seen if they've started to take it down?
Jan 29 2009 6:03PM
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panojibber
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My thoughts exactly. I would like to see safe features in future instead of risky things like that channel gap. I mean, why the fuck would you cross over on that thing? Its pretty much begging for a terrible injury.
Jan 29 2009 6:09PM
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sklermang
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thank you. im glad someone got it right

gosh!
Jan 29 2009 6:17PM
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BigMeech621
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they are filling it in for the Aspen Open. i know for a fact. and they probably get the snow from the same place they got the snow from the rest of the enormous jumps they built.
Jan 29 2009 6:42PM
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TannerCoulter.
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thank you for this man... where'd u hear?

Jan 29 2009 6:50PM
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Drail
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that would mean completely rebuilding both the bottom two jumps... too much effort on their part for sure.
Jan 29 2009 7:16PM
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Ben.
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well they have to do something with it no matter what lol
Jan 29 2009 7:17PM
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TannerCoulter.
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ANYONE IN ASPEN?
Jan 30 2009 7:04PM
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Hansel.
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MEGAMO!!!!!
Jan 30 2009 7:05PM
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Crack.
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MEGAMO GO TO THE MEGAMOO!!!!
Jan 30 2009 7:29PM
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grambo
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#1) Not enough time to setup properly (too close to previous feature)
#2) Too close to bottom jump
#3) Landings are ridiculously narrow, no idea how they thought that would be ok especially in the middle of a course
Jan 30 2009 9:54PM
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titsLOL
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I hope you aren't suggesting that the channel gap is easy to hit. Personally I would not be stoked to hit a feature that travis rice got worked on.
Jan 30 2009 10:01PM
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GetPitted
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me too 8(
Jan 31 2009 12:29AM
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charmander
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read the first 10 or so words of my original post.
Jan 31 2009 12:39AM
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dave...
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uhhmmm......no, i stood on it

probably the scariest fucking feature ive ever stood on, its more like 20 feet bigger

and if you didn't see travis rice crash...

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-j51SIby0_c

Jan 31 2009 3:56PM
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charmander
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holy fuck.

"i understand that gapping the channel is harder"

jesus people.

and you cant argue with pythagorean theorum dave. sorry.

20^2X60^2=C^2
Jan 31 2009 7:22PM
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garettnorthey
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Took the words right out of my mouth! THROW A BIG FUCKING INFLATABLE DINOSAUR IN THERE!!!


And also isn't the point of doing the aspen open for the most part all hyped up because you are supposed to be competing the same course as the pros at the X-Games? So as stupid as that feature may be the way it is set up, (channel gaps are sweet) should they not just leave it in there? I mean if you don't want to hit it as a channel just hit it as a normal table like the majority of people that did it at the xgames. Who knows maybe someone out there wants to make it big in skiing and hits the channel gap and gets rewarded for it by a higher score and possibly first place? Is it really right to take away that persons chances?

Just my opinion but I feel that it is fair that they leave it in.
Jan 31 2009 7:43PM
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charmander
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replace the x with +. my bad.
Jan 31 2009 8:35PM
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Ryanvdonk
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i heard they're just filling it in.
Jan 31 2009 8:39PM
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TYW
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I live like 15 minutes from aspen so i drive there every day to ski and its official they fill the channel gap in.
Jan 31 2009 9:31PM
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TheQuailman
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if travis rice messed up on it, they should take it down

Jan 31 2009 11:16PM
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charmander
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so if travis rice caught an edge at jackson then jackson should be leveled?

haha i jest
Jan 31 2009 11:33PM
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ski_ENDUB
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Best thing I've read in a long time.
Feb 1 2009 12:07AM
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Ben.
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hahahahaha yeah. it was a shitload of people too, and they couldnt do jack shit
Feb 1 2009 1:24AM
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