Rumor: New Sunapee park next year

i ski at both pats peak and occasionally sunapee and what ive learned is that a mini park like pats have dosent keep the joeys out of the good park (pats peak good)

often because they are just ignorant and don't read the difference between big and small.  What really gets me about pats is how the lift goes right over the park, so gapers can't claim that they didn't see what they were getting themselves into, maybe taking a wrong trail.  Hate to be a cynic, but I almost feel its a lost cause for the number of freeskiers to gapers.

thats sick i didnt know about this

gettin close to ski season. any new rumors?

For those not in the Sunapee cult here's some of the chatter

Originally posted June 28th by Mt. Sunapee

"Alright I'm starting this new thread to get the scoop on what you cats think we can improve on next year.  Overall I get the feeling that jumps need the biggest improvement, correct? Our expert park groomer, aka Matty Kelly went to cutter's camp at Snow this past April.  He learned alot of techniques and tips so I'm pumped for what he'll make next year.  Hopefully you'll see much improved jumps.  What were we lacking in jumps last season?

Right now Elliot Slope is going to be turned into a small feature park with some tiny jumps and rollers.  There might be some surface level metal for the kiddies but that is under discussion right now.  The idea is to move some of the joey traffic over there so Pipeline can be a bit more advanced starting from the top.  I'm sure there will still be snaking going on but hopefully it won't be as bad. 

No park pass....

We're purchasing a couple t-boxes for next season and we are working on a deal right now to bring in a hubba setup so hopefully that will fly.  

At the moment we are planning to cut an 8ft half-pipe with the Zaugg on Eastside.  The past few years we've been using the groomer blade to shape all of Eastside and this year we are going to try and turn the shallow bowl that's been there into a full-up 8 footer.  We think the exposure on that trail will allow for both walls to soften so it may be a perfect trail for a pipe.  Time will tell.

We're working on a new park name, any suggestions? "

Posted July 30th By Mt. Sunapee

"I see you guys found my thread finally, good.  Jump lines are the biggest thing that should be changing this year.  We plan on having split lips on all of the jumps to give you an option and we'll start with probably a 5 or 10 footer and go up to 35 feet in increments of 5' on Pipeline.  Jetstream will have 30'+ all the way down with split lips.  Our park groomer did the Mt Snow cutters camp so the angles should be better.  We also are going to make the trannies longer and steeper. 

Chances are that the QP will be on Eastside... we may have one in the main park but with the pipe on Eastside and the pipe cutter needing to be close by we might not be able to have a QP in both areas.  BUT, the pipe will be soft all day because of the way it faces so we hopefully won't have an ice taco so we have to take the bad with the good. 

New rails this year are a couple 10' - 20' flat t-rails, a new c-box t-rail, and we'll have a new flat box that is probably 25' long, and meant to close the gap between the small Allan box and the long 32' flat box.  I don't know what happened with the tire last year but it should be out this season.  Also the log will be put up in a different way that everyone will like and actually be able to use. 

Elliot is going to be more of a boarder cross at the beginning of the season.  Mostly rollers, spines, small jumps, hips and that sort of stuff.  We may add some small metal up top later on. It's mainly to get the little groms out of the intermediate park to reduce the snaking that I saw happen all the time last year.

What else.... We're thinking of creating a "Build-to-Ride" program where if we need to rebuild the park due to an ice storm or to give the park an overhaul, we would look for volunteers to come help us for the day and in exchange that person would get a lift ticket to use, or give to a buddy, or sell for a couple of 30s...  That's not a definate but something we are considering to help reduce downtime and keep the park in prime condition.  Also, the park has been named to the "603".  That may chage slightly when a main sponsor comes on board but Freeride Zone is no more."

^ sounds promising. i didnt know about a sunapee cult

again for those not in the cult


Sept 28 2009

What up!

So we had a delivery of rails the other day from PlanetTools.  We have 3 new flat t-rails 20footers, and a sweet mellow c-rail.  You can actually see the c-rail on the photo of the day.  We also are getting another box, probably 20ft or so and maybe 20" high....

The tree jib will be on its side and raised about 1 foot off the ground.


For opening day we'll have a rail or two setup.  Not sure where yet but we'll have em.

C-Box

people should join the sunapee cult

yo

are you guys gettin ski passes this year? I'm a UNH rep for the mountains so i can hook you guys up with the college discount for the New England Pass (loon, sunday river and sugarloaf) and the 4-NH pass (cranmore, cannon, waterville and bretton woods). they are 329 and 289 respectivly so long as you are enrolled as a full time student

New England Pass
         http://www.loonmtn.com/info/winter/college.aspx
         GO HERE, CLICK GRAHAM MESSE UNDER UNH and the rest is self explanatory

4- NH Pass
         http://www.threedompass.com/college
         GO HERE, CLICK GRAHAM MESSE UNDER UNH and the rest is self explanatory again

pray for snowwwww


Graham Messe
gti2@unh.edu