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No jumps in the new Crystal park.....

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alvy.
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Enumclaw-WA/Sasquatch-Jib-Park-at-Crystal-Mountain/148470688497813?ref=ts

so weak.....i have been waiting for a park at crystal forever and now there too lazy to even make a jump line? so dissapointing...does anyone else in washington feel this way? If not then i guess im just venting my dissapointment haha.
Aug 9 2010 9:53PM
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My home mountain last year was the same way and I don't plan on going back.
Aug 9 2010 9:55PM
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family_vacation
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It's Crystal Mountain, you expect far more than they will ever provide. It's not like they will even put up the features in their plans right now.
Aug 9 2010 9:56PM
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PJS.
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thats bs, richest mtn in WA cant afford jumps
Aug 9 2010 9:56PM
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EmperorKuzco
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is there any backcountry in Crystal, because if there is just build a backcountry booter

Aug 9 2010 10:02PM
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PJS.
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there is, and its actually fun to just build jumps within the boundarys, if you put it on a secluded run you can sesh it all day
Aug 9 2010 10:06PM
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Holte
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If you've skied Xtal for very long at all, I can't see how you would expect their park to be remotely legit.

That place has been managed straight into the ground for the past decade.
Aug 9 2010 10:10PM
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RudyGarmisch
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There is no worthwhile backcountry to ski at Crystal Mt, WA.
Aug 9 2010 10:11PM
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division.bell
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...just like the fucking Mariners.

Yeah, I went there.

After Snoqualmie's lawsuit, I can see why Crystal would not want to have jumps in their park.
Aug 9 2010 10:16PM
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Felix..TG
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they banned jumps in my home montains like 4 years ago so ..
Aug 9 2010 11:47PM
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Sam.Carson
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dont care    just happy to get people away from snoqualmie for a few days or weeks     hoping years
Aug 9 2010 11:48PM
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rach
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hahaha they definitely described the park as "jib oriented" and small...I wasn't expecting greatness. I could care less actually that place is so funnn anyways.
Aug 9 2010 11:55PM
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MothaHucker
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crystal gets so much hate. it is definately my favorite place in WA. it has been an all natural mountain for years, you cant expect them to magically turn into mammoth, even if they have alot of moneythey could lose it all in the same lawsuit snoqualmie had in jumps, im not sayin i support the all jib park im just saying crystals known for freeride and big mountain. not park
Aug 10 2010 12:01AM
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jibbinc.
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Sounds like one of my local mounatins, shitpress.

1 month before they open they tell all the passholders they will be having no park and offer no refunds
Aug 10 2010 12:11AM
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selkirks
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False. They're owned by Boyne. Why do you think their gondola is only going to have like 16 cabins?
Aug 10 2010 1:35AM
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nonexistant
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While the new park may not have any jumps, I'd say what they do have to work with will be pretty legit, well maintained etc. The guy who is park manager is a super good dude and knows what he is doing, and will work hard to make it the best it can be.
Aug 10 2010 1:54AM
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sdfjklioeur
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comparable to the epicness of baker's magnificent stinky pinky i think not!
Aug 10 2010 3:24AM
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alvy.
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MothaHucker strikes again!
Aug 10 2010 8:56AM
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A-Style**
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Crystal gets hate because it deserves hate. It's a horrible mountain, with a horrible layout, horrible customer service, even worse management, horrible location, horrible skiing (mostly because of the mass number of tourists who believe they're going to find something amazing when the snow report says ~2" NEW). Just my opinion...
Aug 10 2010 9:04AM
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I_Am_Mod
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lol that park is about the size of what we have indoor in our fridge :)
Aug 10 2010 10:35AM
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steezy.stew
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At least you have a park
Aug 10 2010 10:47AM
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alvy.
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haha
Aug 10 2010 9:50PM
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SHampson
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I doubt laziness is the reason for no jumps. Probably more of a liability fear.
Aug 10 2010 9:52PM
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deleted5
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be happy my home mountain has no park
Aug 10 2010 9:54PM
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selkirks
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The reason they're doing it makes sense, actually.

Boyne Resorts owns Crystal. Boyne Resorts owns Snoqualmie. Snoqualmie has more of an emphasis on park. Boyne fears that by adding a park at Crystal, they'll be cannibalizing sales at Snoqualmie. It's doesn't take a Business degree to figure out...
Aug 11 2010 1:05AM
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p-fo
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whatever. i will still only go there for big mtn comps pretty much. why pay money for huge crowds? place is resorted the fuck out. they are trying to create another whistler and unfortunately succeeding. sick terrain for sure but trying to beat every rich guy in seattle/tacoma and his brother to the stashes kind of sucks
Aug 11 2010 1:12AM
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ISellMeth
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And that's why I go to Stevens Pass
Aug 11 2010 1:18AM
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JayB
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The fact that they added a lift to Northway is the most heartbreaking change that they've made at Crystal since I started skiiing there, which was in '87.  15 minutes of hiking and you were pretty much always into a reliable stash, and on the extremely rare occasions when Northway proper was tapped out, a few more minutes worth of traversing put you into the untouched goods. Now if you're not there when they drop the gate on a weekend, the odds of you scoring first tracks are pretty much nil. 

I'm pretty neutral on the addition of a park since I head to Crystal for the terrain, but adding a few jibs won't hurt. It'd be great if they added a high-quality park, but that just hasn't been part of their management plan. Given Kircher's hostility to the whole terrain park concept, I'm kind of amazed that they're even adding jibs.

I've had a chance to ski just about everywhere but Jackson, and of the places that I've manged to hit up, Crystal is second only to Whistler when it comes to terrain in my book. I'm sure I'm biased because I grew up skiing there, but if that's one of your local mountains you've got it pretty good IMO.  

Aug 11 2010 1:35AM
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teleak
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looks sorta fun to me
Aug 11 2010 1:56AM
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special_k10101
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snoqualmie is primarily marketed towards recreational skiers, and that segment is going to keep coming back no matter what because of the short commute from seattle. The number of people who would start going to crystal over snoqualmie because of a high quality park is negligible, especially because any seattleite who is willing to drive the extra hour would go to stevens for park anyway.
Aug 11 2010 7:35PM
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Style+eeze
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definitely true
Aug 11 2010 7:40PM
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50in07
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You don't have much to complain about. 30 features sounds pretty damn nice. If it's their first year with a park they'll probably build jumps within the next year or two. Putting up a bunch of rails takes way less effort and snow than putting up a nice big jump line.
Aug 11 2010 7:45PM
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joshua
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Yeah your situation could be a lot worse OP. Here in Thunder Bay, Ontario we once upon a time had like 4-5 ski resorts. Two of them were owned by one guy, one was not as good but was closer to town, the other was way better but farther away (by like 5 minutes,) So he closed the good hill to cut down costs.
Aug 11 2010 7:48PM
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skier_boy26
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so... like... this has been thoroughly discussed in the regionals. Not to mention, ever since Crystal announced they would have a park (now in the seemingly distant past), they mentioned it would not have jumps, so there is zero surprise here. Crystal is Crystal, then again, I don't ski there, so no complaints from me. More power to em.
Aug 11 2010 7:50PM
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