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SNOWSTAR (its no joke)

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T_K
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SO- as i was telling some of you this weekend, snowstar is going to be sick this year. I know most of you have never heard of it, but i figured i'd make a thread about it. Snowstar is on the Illinois side of the quad cities, about 1.5 hr from dubuque. i have no pics so this is what we will have this year. oh yeah and its tiny, so we will just fit in as many of these features as possible, it will be features everywhere. no lines, you can easily get 2 runs per song on your ipod!
OLD:
-40ft flat rail
-stair set with down rail and down box
-big ass whale tail (prolly won't even get set up this year)
-urban style down rail, double barrel
-lots of other small shitty stuff
NEW FEATURES:
-HUGE rainbow box that is dope, probably 15 ft. out of snow when its said and done
-8 new flat boxes
-quarter pipe-box material with coping
-mellow up-down rail, 15ft up/15 down-double barrel
-triple barrel down-flat-down....7x7x7 or so
-40+ ft long wide rail (former lift tower) has had wall ride sides added to each side

there is more that i'm forgetting. lets just say we have features out the ass. we also got a new cat this year which is way more park specific than our old one. also, they let us set stuff up on our own, for example, saturday morning we set up two boxes and had a private hike only film session at the top of the mountain. the park crew is also willing to set stuff up however we want it. basically, its sick as hell. everyone should come check it out at least once this year. this video is about half of the new features, the DFD and the up-down were just built in the last month or so.


sorry this post is so long, i'm just really stoked for my tiny mountain to be incredibly sick.
Dec 7 2009 11:04AM
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TotallyTrevor
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haha dude i went to their website and the hill is sooo small...that's sick though, with all those features you could get so many laps in

I may possibly have to come check this out this year, because i might be coming down to chesnut for a weekend sometime
Dec 7 2009 2:18PM
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SKETCHY_D
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at first i though this was the organization snowstar that we have around here where they go skiing diff places

Dec 7 2009 8:43PM
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skithedirt
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sickk dude.. im soo stoked to live there this winter..

10-12 inches are supposed to hit wednesday, if we have a snowday ill be hiking..

otherwise im SOO stoked for saturday.

Dec 7 2009 8:57PM
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J-KLEMP
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sounds actually pretty cool
Dec 7 2009 9:59PM
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tim_ASP
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This place reminds me of Elm Creek in MN.  except a bit bigger.

These tiny hills with decent rail parks are the most fun places, chill vibe,fast laps, and great groups of people. best times of my life
Dec 8 2009 3:42AM
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motel69
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snowstar was fun before but with all these new features its gonna be dope. the down flat down and the mellow up down are sick as hell. there's gonna be too many features for the mountain. oh yeah the rainbow is looking sweet as hell. cant wait to get this poppin
Dec 8 2009 12:38PM
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WD-40
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wow yeah other people actually go to snowstar too?
Dec 14 2009 11:28PM
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will-g
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bump this cause i was there yesterday and we had a 35 ft kicker. Snowstar is hella legit this year
Dec 23 2009 7:53PM
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T_K
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yeah thats what i'm talkin about! im sure we'll meet when i recover from my goddamn ankle injury....
Dec 23 2009 11:30PM
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the_gnar_gnar
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twenty2- come to sundown also it's looking like they'll have a sick setup this year
Dec 25 2009 1:03PM
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cheddafries
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gnar gnar you make me laugh.  why do you think so many people that ski at sundown go to Chestnut?? its cause Chestnuts better than sundown.  i know from a very good source that sundown is it going to be good at all.  you should just drive the extra 15-20 minutes to Chestnut it will be worth it trust me.
Dec 25 2009 1:52PM
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will-g
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thats to bad but ya its looking good this year
Dec 25 2009 4:40PM
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the_gnar_gnar
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i know- chestnut is a lot better but since sundown is like 10  minutes away from my house i go there
Dec 25 2009 6:08PM
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bumblebeetuna
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All you snowstar ppl should come to chestnut. I'm not hatin on snowstar, but chestnut has its shit together, and is definately worth the trip. We have 26 features set up right now and sundown gargles my balls.
Dec 25 2009 11:31PM
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HangThePope
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dragons mom gargles my balls ;)

but for real we should road trip it up somewhere over break. how far's snowstar from galena?
Dec 26 2009 12:26AM
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will-g
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i want to say its about an hour and a half but thats from like galena to the quad cities
Dec 26 2009 11:53AM
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jibbnsteezy
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Snowstar is very leeeegittt this year.  It has improved a lot.
Jan 3 2010 4:22PM
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will-g
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it has i havent seen u out there have u been goin a lot?
Jan 3 2010 6:47PM
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T_K
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it is an hour and a half, and we usually do go up there often, but its not worth it this year until snowstar gets more played out. too legit.
Jan 12 2010 8:18PM
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HangThePope
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Whats the setup like right now? I heard there was a rail jam or something there this saturday and we might head down there to check it out.
Jan 27 2010 2:36PM
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skithedirt
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Just got done seshin a fresh 52 ft hit... theres also another smaller jump next to it. a qp, they took out all the rails and boxes on the bunny hill but i heard they plan to put them back in before saturday. The big hit is soooo nice and the qp is at the end of it at the bottom of the hilll so you can hit both. it was pretty legit today.

and to the person above me yes there is a rail jam/comp on saturday at 2. the feature is the 52ft hit and the quarter.

Jan 28 2010 8:34PM
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jibbnsteezy
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Can't wait to go on sunday. I've been hearing that theres a huge jump.
Jan 29 2010 4:33PM
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.steezymcgoose.
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holy shit, this thread just got me so stoked for next year. Im from CO and going to Augie next year and will definately be skiing here!
Jun 10 2010 12:41AM
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Travapple.
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dont get your hopes up.
Jun 10 2010 3:55PM
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.steezymcgoose.
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i know its gonna absolutely suck compared to CO but ill just be happy to ski at all
Jun 10 2010 4:07PM
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meowshred
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i wanna see some footy of this place
Jun 11 2010 12:44AM
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Travapple.
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i like you.
Jun 11 2010 12:47AM
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.steezymcgoose.
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haha thanks!
Jun 13 2010 12:03AM
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T_K
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depends how much you like park. I came from CO and i like it alot, but it also has to do with the kids that ride there

SKI SNOWSTAR '09-'10 from Taylor Krick on Vimeo.

Jul 12 2010 5:25PM
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ashamedkrew
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start out with a banger why don't ya. haha sick edit though man looks like a super legit park for being illinois. dude in the neon got steeeeze
Jul 12 2010 7:48PM
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will-g
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that video was a really good representation of what snowstar is like, in multiple ways. First there is way more snowboarders than skiers, however in the 2 years i have been going there often i have noticed a large increase in the talent and number of the skiers(maybe its just me). Secondly the video was more than 3/4's rails which is what i think snowstar is like but we also have some decent kickers, the one shown with the double back is a 55 and it showed up in late january? i think. But we also had a good 40' that was there pretty much the entire season along with some other smaller jumps that came and went throughout the season.
Im looking forward to next year already!!!
Jul 20 2010 9:52AM
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.steezymcgoose.
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this gives me a little bit of hope.
Jul 20 2010 12:58PM
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will-g
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you will have fun, you can get an entire run in down and up the lift in less than 5minutes = tons of runs. Also the liftlines are never long 2 minutes was probably the most i waited this year, and cheap good food. if you can find some people to ride with you will be set. Also i see you are going to augie, i go to alleman a high school literally up the road. And it only takes 20-25 minutes to get there from school
Jul 20 2010 6:18PM
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will-g
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and if you need a seasons pass i might be able to get you in my friends group, were getting them for 125 (300) retail since weve got a massive group
Jul 20 2010 6:22PM
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.steezymcgoose.
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sick, ill definately make it fun somehow and thats uper close to campus! Theres gotta be some kids at augie that ski!

And i would definately be interested in that deal, but as of now i have no idea how much im going to be able to ski so idk if it would be worth it.

Jul 21 2010 4:02PM
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will-g
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ya you will but you could ride with some of us high school guys if you wanted :).
If you decide you want the pass pm me within a month and ill hook you up
Jul 21 2010 5:05PM
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.steezymcgoose.
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haha ill keep that possibility in mind. thanks!
Jul 21 2010 5:35PM
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T_K
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augie has mad urban too!! but yeah will that summed it up perfectly for sure
Jul 23 2010 9:47PM
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.steezymcgoose.
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^oh hell yes

Jul 24 2010 3:52PM
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will-g
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most of this at snowstar
Sep 21 2010 10:13PM
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bumblebeetuna
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I saw c nut in there fshoo
Sep 22 2010 3:29AM
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will-g
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bump for snowstar opening dec 11 hopefully, with a sick new deck set this year Click for larger image
*deck also has a down handrail in the middle.
Nov 23 2010 8:08PM
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will-g
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snowstar is blowing snow!!!! get stoked!!!
Nov 26 2010 6:06PM
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