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parks lack creativity

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summit-soldier
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parks are fun but they offer no creativity in line choice. You ussually have the choice of hiting two different sets of jumps and some rails. Sometimes new jibs show up, but for the most part everyone hits the same features from the same takeoffs. I wish terrain parks were more like skate parks: littered with all sorts of tranies and lines, and jumps with mutiple takeoff points.
I also wish resorts would utilize natural terrain, and make sweet backcountry like features. The whole sport of skiing is based around the natural terrain, so why not utilize it and make sick shit. You could have some stepups, tree and cat walk gaps, and sick hip jumps. I have tried to make my own jumps, but arrive the next day to see my hard work destroyed. Backcountry is fun as hell but it takes to much time in work. It would be nice to wake up late, take a lift, and hit sweet jumps all around the mountain.
obvisouly on the east coast there isnt a whole lot to work with, but the west is a frontier of oppertunities.
Jun 28 2004 11:08PM
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Phrosty
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well you see on a mountain you can only go downhill, making it very hard to do stuff like a skatepark. Most resorts don't want to fork over enough run space for something like that to happen. Keystone has a lot of space dedicated to their park but they did a bad job with it. Building and maintaining a terrain park is very hard. you have to incorporate the slopes and angles of the run, that's why jumps are placed where they are, you can only push so much snow.


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Jun 28 2004 11:11PM
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linemaverick540
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i think it would be sick to have a huge pile of snow that just goes flat and then drops at the end but onto a landing. it would be like a man made cliff in the park.. if they could make it high enough it could be sick


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Jun 28 2004 11:17PM
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NateDogg369
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you must use your imagination grasshopper... then you will find new things to do in the park
Jun 28 2004 11:32PM
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lanks
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parks dont lack creativity. they lack funds.

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Jun 29 2004 12:05AM
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r5tommy
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iv thaught of linemavericks idea before and i aprove
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Jun 29 2004 12:08AM
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october
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i dont think they lack funds, i think it is more of an issue of liability.
a sick feature though would be a huge 10 foot high box you step up to. I saw one in the red bull rampage for bikes it was dope. They also had huge drop off this plank thing that would be sick on skis.
Jun 29 2004 12:36AM
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sconnyFC
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I admit it would be nice to see a table with 5 takeoffs and 5 landings with a transfer possibility from each take off to any of the landings. I am not sure how good the landings would be though, being as 5 different angles would be trying to land on it. Might make the landings harder to be totally smooth on. Maybe not though. Someone needs to try.






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Jun 29 2004 12:36AM
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Ahmets_Brother
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i agree with lanks....parks are realy creative too...you just dont utilize shit the way other people do....sometimes instead of hitttin the jup up to the box i just olly on from the side of it and do it or when the pipe is shit do stalls on it or do switch runs....it cant get like aksate parks because uyou gotta go downhill

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Jun 29 2004 8:58AM
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PocketRocketRipper
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I wish more east coast mountains would realize that a sick park can be put on a mediocre run (i.e. not very steep) and it will attract more skiers than that mediocre run alone... stupid old hippies...

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Jun 29 2004 9:06AM
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BrianGauthier
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like u said it takes so much time to create backcounrty hits and do you really think the resorts are going to spend that much time and money on stuff they barely give a fuck about? (not all resorts but most)
Jun 29 2004 9:11AM
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Ahmets_Brother
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at my mountai all the begginer skiers ski down the park...prolly because there is a lift right there whree you can watch and its super flat...too flat for a park because you have to pump as hard as you can to hti the first rail and even to clear 2 of the jumps there

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Jun 29 2004 9:35AM
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acc
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yeah lanks is right...most parks just lack funds and man hours to make them better

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Jun 29 2004 10:18AM
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mommy
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target=_blank>pritty creative?

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Jun 29 2004 1:32PM
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mommy
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WHOOPZZZZZ

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Jun 29 2004 1:34PM
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mommy
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DAAARH.

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Jun 29 2004 1:34PM
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skiierman
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^ what was the point of all that snowboarding?





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Jun 29 2004 2:12PM
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mommy
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^ click the link and watch the 'mammoth express session' for a creative set up.

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Jun 29 2004 3:18PM
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mommy
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somebody should build a jump like 'the wall' at motionplayground.com where you would have to like roll a misty over it to clear it.

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Jun 29 2004 3:21PM
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mommy
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or somebody should make a kicker facing a big wall of snow with a hole in it, and a landing on the other side of the wall. the hole would be like 10 feet across, so people with decent sized skis could ski through.

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Jun 29 2004 3:22PM
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mommy
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*could spin through

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Jun 29 2004 3:28PM
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GrippinGs
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haha yes mommy. we could jump thru flaming hoops like tigers in the circus.
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Jun 29 2004 3:29PM
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mommy
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DEWD EYE-M FUNKING SERUS

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Jun 29 2004 3:42PM
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linemaverick540
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the vail rail jam had an incredibly sick set up to(from mommys link)


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Jun 29 2004 4:04PM
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Krongos
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i totally agree, no spine gaps over halfpipes, or qp to qp transfers, they could be a lot better and im confident they will be
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Jun 29 2004 4:07PM
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summit-soldier
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thats what im talkin about. quater pipes to quater pipes, hips to pipes, and spines. or a huge jump that could transfer you over to the landing of smaller jump. like fly over some jibs and peoples head and then land on a completely different jump. that would be sick. or maybe a transfer over a pipe. the possibilities are endless.
Jun 29 2004 11:37PM
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*scotty
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that creativity happens but you gotta be the best in the buisness to ride it... its called superpark. how sick was superpark last year at timberline. thats what i call creative. like all the step downs and freaky rail things and and and...

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Jun 30 2004 12:03AM
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theres some pretty good ideas floating around out there.
Jun 30 2004 12:29AM
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SaraJ
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the only problem with some of the more insane features is that the resorts don't want to be held responsible for something they have in their park that could be seen as 'dangerous'. And it only takes one dumb kid to ruin it for the people who are good enough to hit the stuff.

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Jun 30 2004 12:36AM
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gangstahrida
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hey linemav there was sumthin like ur cliff idea at alpine meadows last year, it just went straight then dropped like 15 or 20 ft onto a nice landing


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Jun 30 2004 12:40AM
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mommy
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an amazing idea would be a gap through an open gondala to rail disaster. all denis the menace steeze and stuff.

also, a bigger version of skogen sprang's 'deck jib' in rfa.

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Jun 30 2004 11:29AM
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