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Capital Park is where it's at.

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SlickWilly323
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So last week i got to go to 3 Ohio resorts all known for having great terrain parks. Brandywine, Snowtrails and Mad River. In my opinion Mad River has everything you could want. I know a lot of people are bias and hype up there "home" resort but thats not the case for me. I ride Brandywine at least 4 days a week and I'm still wondering what the hell is going on there. I dont want to hate on BW but Mad river and Snowtrails are far better. Snowtrails rail setups are pretty fun and have some unique features you are hard pressed to find around here, but the jumps were dissapointing. I will say that i was there when it was snowing like a bitch and apparently they are aware that they need to do some work on them.  Mad River never seems to let me down. 5 jump line is like nothing you will ever find at another ohio resort and with the huge variety of rails you cant find a rail you wont like. So if you live in Ohio and want to ride a great park, I suggest Mad River if you havent already figured it out.
Jan 18 2011 10:14PM
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tribefan226
Posts: 2122 - Karma: 209
hell yea capital park is the illest. check out this gallery to see the full park setup:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#!/album.php?id=748285070&aid=325250
should be really good to come out and shred this weekend. fresh snow coming thursday night
Jan 18 2011 11:08PM
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Gnams
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Best park I've been to hands down
Jan 19 2011 9:36AM
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TPalms
Posts: 859 - Karma: 252
Capital park kills it. I'm at OSU and I go up there at least four days out of the week--I think the only way I could be happier is if I was living out in the Rockies. Everyone in Ohio needs to check it out.
Jan 19 2011 6:41PM
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teamdummy
Posts: 1189 - Karma: 2,605
great pics in the faceook link. the park look awesome. BMBW should be ashamed of themselves this year!
Jan 19 2011 9:03PM
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madrivergreg
Posts: 138 - Karma: 11
Capital Park is defintly were its at... Capital Park for life!
Jan 19 2011 10:41PM
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JKill
Posts: 626 - Karma: 67
Snow Trails better them BW? I was just up at Snow Trails this past weekend and it was defiantly not better than BW's parks form last year at least (haven't been to BW yet this year). But, Mad River is for sure putting out a great park this year. Everything is prime.
Jan 20 2011 12:30PM
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slaydave
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everyone i talk to at perfect north is always talking shit about capital park.... but i dont understand why after seeing photos like that... i need to get up there this year.  that place looks like it puts perfect north to shame.
Jan 20 2011 3:25PM
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tribefan226
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its DUMPING out there right now. roads were too bad to get to the hill myself but it should set up some epic snow conditions at capital park this weekend
Jan 20 2011 8:20PM
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Terman
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Paging EP pros....paging EP pros.

I was out there tonight and its definitely powdery. If you have a form of transportation, I hope to see you out there this weekend!

Pat Milberry will be cruising around Capital Park this weekend, as well.
Jan 20 2011 10:16PM
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TPalms
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I used to ride at perfects before I went to OSU.

I don't know why, but everyone at perfects always feels the need to talk shit about mrm. Don't listen to them though--while perfect north IS good, mad river is much better. I think the only thing that perfects has that mad river doesn't is that their park is roped off, which cuts down on all of the gapers clogging everything up.
Jan 21 2011 11:49AM
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Dizzyskier
Posts: 364 - Karma: 114
Have a taste of my mogul course on Tiger yet?
Jan 21 2011 2:05PM
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poptarts4life
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i've had a pass at perfects for a few years and now go to osu and ski at mrm and i think it's sick how i live in Ohio and I have 2 absolutely insane parks to ski at. I don't know how ppl could hate on either park.
Jan 21 2011 5:05PM
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TahO[e]HIOJibber
Posts: 177 - Karma: 220
Brian Fitzgerald gettin down at CP last year: https://newschoolers.com/ns/content/viewvideo/id/401702/cat/latest/
Jan 21 2011 7:36PM
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Lake-Dog
Posts: 762 - Karma: 2,900
the biggest difference between perfects and mrm is the way the jumps are built, mrm might have a 4 jump line? but honestly there not built that well at all, perfects has three jumps, i usually skip the first two and just hit the last one so i hit one jump per run, yeah that kind of sucks but at least its a well built jump....poppy lip, wide built up landing that is steep. Yeah mrm has A TON of features which is super sick, thats what makes that place so good, i am definetly gonna come ride there this season! it was super fun last year coming up a few times, this post has no intention of hating on mad river, place is dope, just my two cents
Jan 21 2011 9:06PM
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schwab
Posts: 461 - Karma: 232
i agree with the toothless bastard^ looks like alot of fun for rails, and they look sick with a lot of options. but perfects has them beat with our jump quality, and with how fast we can lap our park, its not too bad to just hit one jump a run...... love all around... remember people. E.L.E.
Jan 22 2011 2:14AM
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gingersteeze270
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sheit havent been to pns in awhile . no doubt its sick tho !    but from personal preference mrm best in the midwest! chea
Jan 22 2011 10:56AM
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ButteredToast.
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Hopefully heading up there saturday with a couple guys.

I expect the usual rail excellency that MRM always brings about, just hopin jumps are well built for (perhaps?) trying new things.
Jan 26 2011 8:22PM
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tribefan226
Posts: 2122 - Karma: 209
saturday is big air, jumps should be in good condition
Jan 26 2011 9:27PM
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Faber777
Posts: 113 - Karma: 36
Jumps 2, 3, and 4 were rebuilt today. Also expect some new rail setups for the weekend.
Feb 8 2011 2:25PM
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Mmessmer
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how are those landings looking?
Feb 8 2011 6:41PM
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Faber777
Posts: 113 - Karma: 36
Steeper!
Feb 9 2011 8:39AM
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Mmessmer
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sick.... be up there friday
Feb 9 2011 10:13AM
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TPalms
Posts: 859 - Karma: 252
I was there yesterday, the jumps are definitely a lot better for sure. I normally like to do about 50/50 rails and jumps but I was having so much fun on jumps yesterday that I didn't really even do a rail run haha.

Also, I'm assuming that the big air was cleared for a canon launch, any word on when that'll be set up? Probably closer to the slopestyle comp right?
Feb 9 2011 12:35PM
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tribefan226
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^word on the street is that the slope course is going up in the next couple days
Feb 9 2011 7:05PM
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