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Alyeska Half Pipe

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Thatdp
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Alyeska is going to have a half pipe built this year.  They have been doing foundation work like sculpting out the ground and making dirt walls for it.   Also they have purchased a pipe dragon.  Props to alyeska finaly geting a pipe going again.

Sep 22 2009 9:40PM
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loganimlach
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haha i hope theyre dozing out two walls of dirt instead of just one this time. any idea how big the arm is on the dragon?
Sep 23 2009 12:21AM
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Thatdp
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i have no idea but i do know that they will have 18 foot walls so it is considered a supper pipe.  found it out just now from my dad. he had a meeting at alyeska with the guys that make the decisions.
Sep 23 2009 12:36AM
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Thatdp
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also on sunday i went and looked at it and there will be to walls dozed out. They took out that tree island thing thats before midway on 7 and they are putting it there
Sep 23 2009 12:39AM
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garrett.
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well 18 foot walls thats good, but a super pipe is 22.
Sep 24 2009 2:43AM
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Thatdp
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the supper pipes in the jeep comps and bigger comps are 22 but for most other events they are imbetween 18-22 acoding to ussa competition rules

Sep 25 2009 11:58AM
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It's gonna suck; I'm calling it right now.
Oct 1 2009 5:17PM
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loganimlach
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i agree. that area isn't steep enough for a superpipe, much less a park. coughgetyourshittogetheralyeskacough
Oct 1 2009 6:37PM
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Thatdp
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if alyeska ever gets all there shit together i will ski naked on the coldest day of that year

Oct 2 2009 10:37PM
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alaskakid
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yeah with how alaskan park crews go, it'll most likely suck. fairbanks has a pipe dragon too, and they don't use it. at all. our pipe only slightly resembles what a pipe should look like; there isn't even full vert to be found.
Oct 5 2009 12:03AM
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Thatdp
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i think alyeska pipe will definelty be a good pipe.  but alyeska sold there old pipe dragon to fairbanks, and its old and crapy.  Alyeska has a new one now.  and actualy 2 years ago alyeska had a pretty ligit park.
Oct 5 2009 8:35PM
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Having the world's nicest pipe dragon won't compensate for their baffoonery.

Example: last year the park on Tanaka had a good slope, yet the angle of the takeoffs didn't match the angle of the landings, coupled with the fact that the tables themselves were too small for how much speed you carried in, which is why so many people overshot and got injured. Then they blamed those easily avoided liability risks on the concept of having a terrain park in itself, and not on their attempts to build something that any high school graduate with a basic understanding of trajectory could've gotten right the first time.
Oct 5 2009 9:14PM
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Thatdp
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watev man 3 years ago the pipe we had wasnt bad and for the most part the people that got hurt on those jumps had no reason to be on them.
Oct 6 2009 2:48AM
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StReEtPIRATES
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I disagree, that pipe was complete crap.  You couldn't carry enough speed to actually clear out of it. Alyeska should remake the park on tanaka with better thought out jumps.  Then they could build a beginner park on seven and have a rail garden on chair three.  Unfortunately i don't think that alyeska will ever do that. 
Oct 10 2009 9:33PM
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aurora.
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Oct 12 2009 1:56AM
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mdurtschi
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the parks havent been the best in the past but mabey one of these years they will figure it out mabey
Oct 19 2009 12:21AM
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frampton
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buying a new pipe dragon sounds like a stupid waste of time and money.

Oct 20 2009 3:25AM
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Thatdp
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dude its not like they had one to used that worked
Oct 20 2009 11:24PM
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alaskakid
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Tanaka was a good place to put a park, too bad they moved it to that crappy flat part last season.

And the story about the jumps is birch hill's life story. The epitome of Birch's failure comes in at these three little jumps they had last year. They were about 3 feet high, had literally nothing to clear, and the landing was as long as the takeoff. Imagine a triangle - that's exactly how they looked. That jump fucked up so many people that it wasn't even funny after a while, because the only speed you would need to clear it was to get to the top, so it was really easy to overshoot, especially for younger kids, girls, and GI's.

But yeah, the idea of making jumps smaller to keep them "safer" is what has ruined birch hill, and looks like alyeska too.
Oct 20 2009 11:54PM
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alaskakid
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Oh, I was not aware of this.
Oct 20 2009 11:57PM
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