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No kings this season.

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STAUSS
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Bummer.

http://www.irideparkcity.tv/iridepc/blog/authors/park-city-mountain-resort/no-kings-crown
Jan 24 2012 2:41PM
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mehregan15
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surprised they made this call. just shows how shitty this year has been :(
Jan 24 2012 2:56PM
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YewTard
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Sucks, but reasoning is completely legitimate. Can't fault PCMR for the lack of natural snow.
Jan 24 2012 2:57PM
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STAUSS
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yea, its def. not their fault and they know it wont look good, so hopefully they will make up for it elsewhere. 
Jan 24 2012 3:04PM
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eheath
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With the lack of snow, this is no surprise to me. I'm really stoked that PC came out and said something and that they are now focusing on making bigger jumps for us still. Its a real bummer that there wont be a kings this year but its reassuring that they are promising a kings next year and we can only hope next year will be a better snow season. With this kind of snow fall and the amount of snowmaking needed at PC (not just the park) im surprised they even have the park they have now.

Hats off to PC, they're doing their best and I look forward to the new shit they're gonna set up in pick now!
Jan 24 2012 3:47PM
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Ryguy920
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Hey im going there this weekend, do they still have a lot of cool stuff set up?
Jan 24 2012 5:17PM
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eheath
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Yeah man! Pick n Shovel is full of so much good shit.
Jan 24 2012 5:32PM
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STAUSS
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for sure, park is super legit right now.  fun jump line, many sick rail options. 
Jan 24 2012 6:14PM
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GayWolf420
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But for real. Completely understandable. When I heard they were having a plan b, I thought of jonesey's but adding more fun stuff to pick would be awesome. It's pretty damn fun right now.
Jan 24 2012 6:44PM
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YewTard
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that woulda made my day if Plan B was to rebuild Joneseys... ah well. PCMR has had their park dialed from opening day when everyone else was dragging ass. I hope nobody is short sighted enough to start bitching at them for this.

Jan 24 2012 6:55PM
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BskiP
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I was hopping on here expecting people to freak out. I think ns is growing up or something weird.
Jan 24 2012 7:51PM
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j.saaaarela
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I would trade Kings for Jonesey's, hands down. Jonesey's like 3 years ago was, in my opinion, one of the best parks PC ever set up. Also when kings was still the intermediate park. Things were quite legit.

Still stoked on the current state of Pick though.
Jan 24 2012 9:10PM
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GratefulShred
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Totally understandable, but i thought they should just do one massive overload run full of jibs? They could get that done with our current snow situation. and in the railyard, it seems like we certainly have plenty.
Jan 24 2012 9:53PM
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123ski
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The thing that sucks most about this is that now every single park (except ridge) is crowded onto a single lift. Even with the faster lift the park gets way way way too crowded. With Kings Crown way too many little kids are afraid to even go in there, you could go ride the park solo when 3 kings got too crowded. I agree, go make the park up on Jonesey's again. Higher elevation = cooler temps. Already more snow up there than on the lower mountain. The problem with not having Jonesey's is that in the spring the park on 3 kings melts out too quickly. GO BUILD IT!!

ALSO. There is no reason why they couldn't just set up a triple wide rail line all the way down kings crown. There are SO SO SO SO SO many rails just sitting up in the bone yard that will never be used. Go set 3 rail lines up on Kings Crown and build some bigger jumps in 3 Kings. That way its like you left an intermediate park on Kings Crown and have both an intermediate and advanced park line on 3 Kings!!!

The second option above seems way more reasonable than Jonesy's. Anyone know anyone on the park crew they can talk to.. just build jibs on Kings Crown.. would be so fun...

Jan 25 2012 12:58AM
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currentwestman
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the graveyard of rails is damn far from kings crown. they could do it but seems it would take too much effort to setup/maintain a rail garden with alll those rails 3 wide than the return they would get from having a rail garden instead of the usual xxtremexx jumps big park.

idk why pcmr couldnt step up with key/breck, but its clear they dont care to for now. i cant complain anyway, the parks fuckin sick
Jan 25 2012 2:48AM
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eheath
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its all about money man, breck/key have SO MUCH money and they both pride themselves in their park. I'd be willing to bet their budget (ie snowmaking, employees, cat time, etc) is significantly larger that PCs. PC's park manager/staff cares, but their mid level management doesn't.
Jan 25 2012 3:20AM
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thefixings
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this.
Jan 25 2012 10:31AM
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LeoSpaceman
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yea, it's way closer to pick.............
Jan 25 2012 2:03PM
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123ski
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hahaha
Jan 25 2012 2:24PM
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heFF
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like heath said stoked they came out and spoke up instead of leaving a lingering uncertainty...stoked to what they'll do for 3 kings considering they said they're going to continue to "knock it out of the park"
Jan 25 2012 4:56PM
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currentwestman
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yeah the yard is far from pick too i guess...
Jan 26 2012 12:39AM
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STAUSS
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a long jib park in kings would be rad, but a bit of a bitch to maintain.  hopefully w/e they build in the "quicksliver" line (the plan B they've given us) is big and works out. 
Jan 26 2012 1:57AM
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