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What makes a good or ok park GREAT?!?!?!?

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m_damianos
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title says it all...

Jan 12 2010 1:18AM
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Jwalk
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creative features, lots of flow and rhythm, and not all snowboarder designed features like ride on rails
Jan 12 2010 1:20AM
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buddychaps
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what the
Jan 12 2010 1:26AM
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chicken
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-maintained features
-good rail take offs (like rainbows/battleships done properly, downs done urban, a mix of urban take offs -and gaps on)
-lots of kick on jumps
-longer park rather than wider so you get more hits in
-more rails, less boxes. I hate parks that are all boxes.
Jan 12 2010 1:27AM
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m_damianos
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???

Jan 12 2010 1:27AM
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Mavrck
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this

features allow creativity of different lines. Jumps have right lip angle and landing angle so they flow smooth. rail lips don't rocket the rider upwards so that they land with the force of 6G's on the rail. Features are level and well maintained. Features not only serve a main purpose but can double or triple feature as a few different hits. and most of all don't let ratards in who ski off the lips and take their children through. NO RUTS
Jan 12 2010 1:27AM
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buddychaps
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nice icon
Jan 12 2010 1:29AM
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m_damianos
Posts: 113 - Karma: 8
oh word!
Jan 12 2010 1:30AM
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CrunkNugget
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progressive lanes, stuff for learning new stuff in one lane, and stuff for making it look sick in another one. also no ride-on rainbow rails or up rails (unless there's a really steep take off)
Jan 12 2010 1:31AM
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Leafman
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rhythm sections and berm stuff and fat banks to slash
Jan 12 2010 1:32AM
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m_damianos
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good mix of jumps rails and the ability to make multiple lines out of the features

Jan 12 2010 1:33AM
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Holte
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Long landings.
Jan 12 2010 1:37AM
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Mike.Records
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Long and steep landings
Jan 12 2010 1:48AM
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alpineplease
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you asked us, n00b
Jan 12 2010 1:52AM
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Doug.
Posts: 2236 - Karma: 457
weed? actually ive never smoked so i cant say that
Jan 12 2010 2:02AM
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wintersway
Posts: 5115 - Karma: 128
lapping it with your friends.
Jan 12 2010 2:15AM
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jibmastaaa
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id say just larger features, and keeping everything maintained all the time.
Jan 12 2010 2:24AM
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kthnxbai.
Posts: 2847 - Karma: 179
perfect jumps.  i grew up on the east, skiing rails all day everyday.  but when you get into a "good" park with "great" jumps it will turn good skiers into great skiers.
Jan 12 2010 3:03AM
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tommyp1ckles
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i agree with most of that stuff but ive never seen a not ride on rainbow...
Jan 12 2010 7:44AM
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L.U.P.E.
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pretty looking freatures is the difrence between good and great, like perfectly cut lips and so on.
Jan 12 2010 7:45AM
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I_Am_Mod
Posts: 13214 - Karma: 3,753
safe features....

wallrides and QP's
features that can be hit on multiple ways...
a rail that is rediculously long...
jumps that are properly shaped and not just a pile of snow with tracks on it....
rollercoaster rails...
special features such as barrel jibs or cannon boxes...

all kinds of "urban" jibs; oil barrels, tubes, picnick tables, a car that's half buried, make a wallride against a tree or something, etc...
Jan 12 2010 7:54AM
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I_Am_Mod
Posts: 13214 - Karma: 3,753
oh, also a dedicated and fast park lift; so you don't have to ski down the whole mountain and take two lifts to lap the park and lose a lot of time + get cold...
Jan 12 2010 7:56AM
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ISKIBC
Posts: 82 - Karma: 12
rhythm

the people in it

the vibe
Jan 12 2010 10:43AM
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tommyp1ckles
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the biggest thing for me is not having fucked up lips and icy or rutted out landings

i can hit the same well cut box for hours
Jan 12 2010 11:06AM
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49566738265
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Breck has one.  A nice 2 foot gap and the lip is the same angle as the beginning of the rainbow.
Jan 12 2010 11:11AM
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TotallyTrevor
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nice
Jan 12 2010 11:18AM
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MatRich
Posts: 4789 - Karma: 1,813
I like doing random original features. I like a park that has something that no one else does because its so random yet so fun
Jan 12 2010 11:39AM
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freeski_Shaggy
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The people in it of course!
Jan 12 2010 11:42AM
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Malcolm
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-under a chairlift
-designed and maintained by experienced staff who care and will actually be hitting the park
-good flow so that you dont always have ice spots from braking
-both easy and hard features so you can progress
-lots of people but not so much that you have to wait forever to hit something
and a park pass to keep gapers out
Jan 12 2010 11:53AM
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highaltNM
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this would be the park at my mountain. 
Jan 12 2010 12:08PM
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eheath
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Friends.
Jan 12 2010 12:09PM
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DaveM
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awesome flow

chair accesable

proper landings

both progressive and challenging features

maintained by the park crew

a nice cold beer.

Jan 12 2010 12:09PM
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flexpattern
Posts: 1090 - Karma: 45
one with a lift from top to bottom - the one in tignes this year you have to ski about half a mile down to the chair, which was old and slow,


oh and the park shouldn't be flat, i hate having to push into features, messes up my steeze!
Jan 12 2010 12:49PM
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Sveetski
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A dedicated park lift, a luxury in Europe
Jan 12 2010 1:06PM
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WinterStick
Posts: 234 - Karma: 100
haha, nice one! I wish I had that kind of stamina.
Jan 12 2010 1:29PM
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nickmiles
Posts: 1070 - Karma: 844
doesn't matter how creative you are if you can't build the features you can draw. sick cat drivers make or break a park.
Jan 12 2010 2:08PM
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Aaaron.
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good flow and maintained features. 

Jan 12 2010 2:10PM
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