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Alyeska? good or bad park

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rosaparking
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I'm going to Alyeska in a week or 2 and i dont plan on skiing park but if the weather turns to shit (which it might) is their park good or bad?
Dec 13 2011 12:29AM
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S.C
Posts: 3068 - Karma: 2,285
to my knowledge, it is just acceptable, but you'll be able to mess around and have some fun in it.
Dec 13 2011 12:30AM
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DayMan
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TRIPPPPLLLLLLLLEEEEESSSSSSS
Dec 13 2011 12:45AM
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EricaMN.
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lol
Dec 13 2011 12:53AM
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masterhatin
Posts: 630 - Karma: 53
dont expect much. hmu if you do go, im a 10 min walk from the lift
Dec 13 2011 1:28AM
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lukemeahan.
Posts: 1689 - Karma: 330
It's my home resort and you definitely can have fun there. It's hit or miss. Sometimes it's groomed and what not other times it's really shitty. They will have a couple of decent size jumps, several rails and boxes. Also some sweet jibs. Have fun, hit me up if you want too go shred!
Dec 13 2011 1:36AM
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@nonymous
Posts: 521 - Karma: 1,365
Go if you like sending unstylish tripples
Dec 13 2011 3:39AM
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andstuff
Posts: 1118 - Karma: 61
Park is shit, but in all fairness, they did spend a quarter million dollars to build a half-pipe that's half the size of a normal one.
Dec 13 2011 3:51AM
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THAT-GUY
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A typical 22ft pipe cost over a million a season to build and maintain.
Dec 13 2011 3:58AM
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andstuff
Posts: 1118 - Karma: 61
...which should have been their first red flag that they are wasting precious capital "trying to get the X-games to come here."
Dec 13 2011 4:04AM
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loganimlach
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horrid part
Dec 13 2011 4:38AM
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loganimlach
Posts: 5132 - Karma: 14,054
*park
Dec 13 2011 4:39AM
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Orrin
Posts: 1757 - Karma: 1,114
A bad park is better than no park.
Dec 13 2011 6:42AM
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skiingblowsme
Posts: 664 - Karma: 100
yep
Dec 13 2011 6:47AM
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ironic
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You'll be just fine, even if you're not skiing park.

Dec 13 2011 3:08PM
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pow314
Posts: 424 - Karma: 111
you don't go to alyeska to ski park. it fucking sucks.
Dec 13 2011 3:10PM
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steezenskis
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if your going to ak, why would you ski park. theyve gotten almost 300 inches this season.
Dec 13 2011 3:18PM
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Huck_Norris
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Motherfucker, you're in Alaska.  Skiing park.  What.  The.  Fuck. 

Dec 13 2011 3:19PM
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jason...
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^^^^^^^^^ can any of you 3 dickweeds read? he said if the weather is crap he will be skiing park, just like any other normal person.
Dec 13 2011 3:22PM
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timC
Posts: 344 - Karma: 117
Shittiest park ever. Don't come. Hilltop a one chair hill, with 100 vertical feet in Anchorage shows them up.
Dec 13 2011 3:24PM
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AKyooper
Posts: 60 - Karma: 43
they are getting dumped on with snow! if they get freshy while your there get there early because the whole mountain isn't that big so gets tracked fast... but lots of natural stuff to have fun on all day. Park hasn't been that impressive but enough other terrain to play on.
Dec 15 2011 5:23PM
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Drail
Posts: 14012 - Karma: 10,012
I used to think this as well. Now, I'm not sure anymore. My hill has a park that, for the most part, sucks the big one. At this point, I'm not even sure if it's worth the effort. It doesn't help that the market the shit out of it. The inbounds terrain at the hill is some of the most fun lift accessed terrain around, so that helps a lot for forming the mentality that no park may be better than a bad park.

Really, it all comes down to the fact that I hate when marketing departments lie.
Dec 15 2011 8:07PM
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manutdsaol
Posts: 906 - Karma: 56
no joke my home mountain in Chicago actually has 100 vertical
Dec 15 2011 8:11PM
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ski4dayz
Posts: 37 - Karma: 12
the park is shitty as fuck
Jan 30 2012 11:00PM
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Bonzalo
Posts: 2593 - Karma: 1,812
Yeah Ill back you up on this one. Hills saying that have a sick terrain park but in reality it is a shitty one sucks.
Better to offer well what you actually have.
Jan 30 2012 11:03PM
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VD.
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I would spend too much time in the park if I were you ... sorry correction, I wouldn't spend any time in the park
Jan 30 2012 11:20PM
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