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I heard a long time ago that timberline shares a superpipe cutter with another resort... they have it in the winter and timby has it in the summer...
for sure.... that makes sense to wait till spring time ... or you could put the pipe in the old secert ninja spot on that littile run from walts baby to west leg road.. like 12 years ago they had a pipe there and there would still be enough room to get down to west leg road and it would be proctected from blowing snow that the pipes on norman face. i could se it hard to push snow up to it. but its a thoght and i know it would not get a good to go from kruse and ned flanders. but we can wish. at least by march have a pipe up. its really sucks. that in essence timber line aims it most prolific park skils to the summer scene. but i understand timby makes a killing. but the parks are great as always and i have no complaints on them. keep up the good work. and quarter walls allways fuck people up..
oh yeah. more hips. but dont use the cutter make those park crews work!!!
We have made attemps in the last 2 years. And we all do know how to build them. I started pushing one in spraypaint 2 years ago, got 3/4 of the left wall done, took me about 20 hours of cat time. Then three days later a storm hit and erased most of my work. Not to say I couldn't have restarted the process but it would have meant neglecting the jump line for that week. It's kind of a trade off. The other issue is that spot in spraypaint worked fairly well when we used to cut a 15 foot pipe in there, but that pipe was still only about 3-4 good hits before it got really flat. Now with an 18 foot pipe in there you need a little more hill and steepness to make anything worth riding. If I put in the extra hours to build it up it's probably going to be just a couple hits and out.
Having sad that I do think pipes are important and I hope to have one when it's feasible, it's by far my favorite feature to ride. The cost benefit and ridership level of a pipe up here in the winter is the issue. The last year we had a pipe (2008) it was literally open and ridable under 10 days from it's opening day January 15 through April 1. Still though we spent hours each night digging it out re- stepping, re-stacking and cutting, all to not have it open the following day. By the end of the year the push out pipe from that pipe was literally 100 feet deep. And just to reiterate we don't have a pipe right now not becuase we don't want one or becuase we are lazy, We simply feel that pipe ridership on the whole is not as important to most users as jumps and rails right now, so we instead have shifted our availabe resources into building better parks. You may also notice that a day ticket at meadows is 69 bucks this year. Things like building an in-ground halpipe, and maintaining one are direct expenses reflected in ticket prices. We would like to maintain our ticket prices as well as offer the best park experience for our guests, we feel strongly that the winter pipe could directly affect that.
As far as the summer pipes are concerned we do build our public summer pipe in May and keep it going through most of July. It's a lot easier to maintain that summer pipe simply becuae its usually not snowing in the summer. The other 2 -4 pipes in the summer are located within the private camp areas and are payed for by the camps. 2 of those are built and cut by our grooming staff wo do a really good job with them.
In the future I am always interested in feedback concerning halfpipes and ridership levels. It's something we discuss quite often among or Freestyle Team. If in the future we see a greater demand for them we will look to have them again in the winter. If I could find a great spot for one with the length/pitch and protection from the wind I would jump on it immediatly, but in my quest for that spot at Timberline in the last 10 years I've come up with Spryapaint, which does not excel in any of those 3 criteria, or in the main jump line of Paintbrush, which would mean no more big jump line. So you guys tell me if that's sometihing you want to see we would consider it for sure.
Lastly I would not rule out a spring pipe of either 18 or 13 feet this spring in spraypaint. It's something I look at every year. if the snow keeps up like it is and then kind of mellows out in March I will look that direction. Last year that plan did not work out so well becuse, if we had build a pipe by mid March, it would have been closed most of the spring becuase of the wet/snowy spring.
So that's the word for now. Like I said, if pipe riding is what the masses want then let us know...Also I would be intersted to know if you would rather ride 13 foot pipe that had 5-6 hits or an 18 footer with 3-4.
Logan Stewart
Mountain Operations Manager
I know, who the hell writes an essay on NS?
Good information to have out there though. I agree with you Logan that at this point in my life a good superpipe is by far my favorite type of freestyle terrain. But Tline gets some wicked storms, storms that fillin 100+ foot deep canyons up higher on the mountain. And riding a poorly maintained pipe isn't nearly as fun as a perfect one. I say do the job right or don't bother.
I'm looking forward to riding northstar and sierra's pipes this winter.
S-Rail is going out tonight, we will start to make stuff bigger as the season goes on. We try to get through the holiday break before making stuff too big for the masses, then after we can step it up. The wall ride is drawn up, going to build it next summer looking at something closer to 30ft long 12 feet tall. thanks for the feedback.
PArks as of Chrismas Day
Check it out guys. Doing a weekly(conditions permitting) video blog about Timberline Parks, the crew and the people who ride Tline. Its call Saturdays with Stanford. Here is the first episode.
Enjoy and hope the parks have been fun.
Brian
STEP UP, and make it floaty as fuck
And IDK if that quarter/hip is still up at the bottom of the conways jump line, but that things needs to either be a fat hip or just gone
sorry, that was off topic.
rope tow or easy to hike rails
rope tow. = bomb holes and more maintinence. cool idea for a rider . .not for the park crew...
skibowl has a rope tow jib park.
