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SKI SUNDOWN 2012-2013

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.frenchy
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Am I even allowed to make it 2 years in a row? Oh well

Here are the upcoming rail-jams for this season (as seen in fluff's thread)

9/29 - Avon Day

10/6 - Suburban Sports w/meat head flims premier

10/13 - Morsel Munk w/Sunny premier

10/27 - Ski Sundown

11/3 - Colorado Ski Shop's in W.Springfield MA

11/24 - Simsbury Celebrates

11/25 - Litchfield Rail Jam



May we have a good long year with glorious powder days and a park full of features!
Don't be afraid to say hi to fellow NS'ers! We're nice people :)

Sep 19 2012 3:53PM
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.frenchy
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Unfortunately you took my post too seriously.


fuck you Chris.




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fuck you
Mar 13 2013 2:48PM
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TNORTS
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Whats the setup like right now? I was up two weekends ago but not last. Has it changed at all since then?
Mar 14 2013 8:51PM
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BWalmer
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Some build happened today (I didn't work or ski today so I don't know if it was a rebuild or a touch up after the rain, we didn't really make a plan because of the rain), more tomorrow. I'll update this thread tomorrow afternoon when we're done building everything.
Mar 14 2013 10:25PM
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BWalmer
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Forgot to post this yesterday:

Stinger: 32' flat bar, Unbow, 2 jumps - 25' step-over, 25' table (1st one closed for now, if it softens up with sun we might be able to get it open later), Skinny urban down rail, s-rail, sidekink

Toms: Barrel to down rail, 2 corrugated spines, flat rail (round bar), down rail (double barrel), flat tube, jump (10' table)

Don't forget about bump comp today, registration from 10:30-12:30, comp starts at 1pm. Scoring based on speed, turning, and jumps.
Mar 16 2013 8:20AM
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.frenchy
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Both parks are soooooo fun, nice job
Mar 16 2013 9:41AM
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jibgilmon
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After like a 6 week hiatus I FINALLY get to go to Sundown tomorrow, so hopefully I'll see some peeps! Pink saga pants.
Mar 16 2013 5:14PM
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BWalmer
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First jump is open now. Second one...well the landing is pretty bad so not today, but Wednesday it should be good. We're thinking of putting something up that hasn't been seen all year, and (to my knowledge) has never been up this last in the season. Pretty stoked we have this much snow to work with still.
Mar 18 2013 2:46PM
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YoungChristmas
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Mar 18 2013 3:26PM
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TNORTS
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damnn might have to come up this weekend now ahaha.
Mar 18 2013 4:07PM
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JWeinstock
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what i was thinking
Mar 18 2013 5:54PM
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fluff
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opted for keeping both jumps.  

they're pretty. 

you should all come today (wednesday )   place is sweet

Mar 20 2013 10:53AM
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.frenchy
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Please do NOT take out the rails from the latest park build (last Friday...) for the girls comp or whatever it is. That's the sickest set up of the year, can you just give them a flat box and the flat 16? I beg of you park crew.....

PLEASE.

Plus if you put the good rails at the bottom there, when the warm weather comes you will not have speed after you hit the feature (Where the 2 spines are now).
Mar 20 2013 3:05PM
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BWalmer
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Fun story...that setup should have sucked (I'm glad it doesn't...but it should have)...jarrod and I were getting very frustrated during the entire build, haha.

That said...the flat box is currently broken, and the flat 16 has holes ripped in it (and will never be good again). So we kinda have to take things from the rest of the park. BUT, it's not like it can't go back to where they are...
Mar 20 2013 4:34PM
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.frenchy
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Well nice job to you guys! Is the rainbow box still broken? So that day will the bottom park be empty again?


I'm most definetly wearing a wig that day.
Mar 20 2013 7:44PM
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BWalmer
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Sooooo many pieces (I don't even know where they all are...some might have even been used to remake the FDF box). I don't think so, we're gonna rebuild friday morning so we'll know then. James and I came up with a fairly fun idea which might actually work well there, we'll see.

No wigs...this is just for the girls, we came up with the idea because all the other rail jams are mainly dominated by guys and we've had less and less girls even enter, when we asked them why they kinda hinted that it wasn't fun because of the pressure and they didn't want to look like fools in front of the guys, hence no guys at this one. Don't worry, it's only a few hours, and everything will be left open after the event like always anyways.
Mar 20 2013 8:14PM
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.frenchy
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shit.


No but in all seriousness the girls comp will be closed off right? Then you'll open it up after?
Mar 20 2013 9:08PM
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BWalmer
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Yup. Same as all of our comps have been this year, I don't see a reason for this one to be any different.
Mar 20 2013 9:11PM
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shitpoop
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DUDE TOM'S IS ORGASMIC
Mar 23 2013 8:54PM
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fluff
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Stinger Jumps got a reshape this morning. look before you leap. yay!

Girls Day.... no spectating gentlemen. let the ladies have a nice afternoon.


Mar 24 2013 9:48AM
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Jamartini
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Any one want to buy a 20 ft banshee bungee i would like to sell it to someone locally at sundown.

It is in 9/10 condition i have not used it for urban, only backyard jumps and rails has only about 30 pulls it comes with carabeaners,bag,lead line and i have another extra handle (plain water ski handle) that attaches perfectly. PM me for offers and pictures
Mar 24 2013 8:16PM
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shitpoop
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@Bwalmer how long do you think you will stay open?

Mar 24 2013 9:11PM
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JWeinstock
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its pretty early to tell. there is still a lot of snow left but i dont know the weather for the next week besides rain for tomorrow. I think another couple weeks though
Mar 24 2013 10:05PM
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.frenchy
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That whole storm blew out to sea, all they say is a few flurries with an inch by the shore.... Sucks.
Mar 24 2013 10:07PM
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grnwd
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next weekend sundown will be open for sure, but the first weekend of april is still up in the air.
Mar 25 2013 7:51AM
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.frenchy
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Pretty sad the season is nearing it's end... Any plans on new rails this summer in the making? Another lift tower type of rail would be pretty sick!
Apr 1 2013 10:55PM
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BWalmer
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We're basically gonna give Cesca a bunch of metal and say "go for it" and see what he comes up with. We've talked about a single barrel C, a Z style rail, and a bunch of round bar with caps (like the side-kink, but straight) that we can connect into different variations since the close-in/side-kink Z rail worked well. Trust me, we'd love more tubes, but lift tower rails aren't something we can really just get all that easy...but you never know...however, it was talked about, if we did get some more, they'd also get round caps so we can connect them together...how sick would a 60ft DFD made out a tower tubes be!
Apr 1 2013 11:09PM
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BWalmer
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Cut it apart and use it for supports/feet...it's not fixable.
Apr 2 2013 8:11AM
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TobiasFunke
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a 60 foot dfd would be legendary
Apr 2 2013 3:44PM
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shitpoop
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Can you guys maybe make more urban-style down rails or something for next season? thanks! @bwalmer
Apr 2 2013 4:23PM
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BWalmer
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Honestly, I don't want a park full of urban down bars...they get really boring. Although, if you think about it, I'm almost positive that all season there has been at least one urban on down rail on hill (it's usually the skinny rail, but he 32 was for a while, the double barrel was for a bit too). I like an urban on rail every once and a while, but to me it's kinda a waste of 2-3 feet of trickable rail...which is why I try to only do it with our big rails...but most of those were buried all year (something we're trying to figure out how to avoid for next year...cause that was lame).
Apr 2 2013 5:02PM
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JWeinstock
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dont think that will happen again as CT doesnt usually get hit like that. but great job on the park this year with what was available. setup was sick all season
Apr 2 2013 5:18PM
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BWalmer
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They were all buried before it snowed...they got buried during snowmaking because of the absurd amount of snow we were able to make one night. Thanks for understanding though.
Apr 2 2013 5:40PM
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shitpoop
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Aight. this was one tight season, thanks man

Apr 3 2013 6:43PM
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.frenchy
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Friday I don't care about because I have a dodgeball tournament for school... But why not open Sat+Sun, or at least close at 10 on Saturday!
Apr 3 2013 7:30PM
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BWalmer
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I think closing Saturday at 5 makes perfect sense...that's what it always is (in years past)...I'm not sure why people are upset about this...it's APRIL...they've NEVER been open in April before...

But for real...the answer has to do with customers...over the past few weekends the busiest times have been Saturdays during the day, Sundays have been slow, nights have been slow..it doesn't make sense to be open when there's more staff working than there are people skiing this late in the season.
Apr 3 2013 7:40PM
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.frenchy
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They have though, just not in the last couple years... Alright that makes sense though. Still rather would ski until 10 :/

Not upset man, just asking!
Apr 3 2013 7:42PM
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BWalmer
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I understand, I knew you weren't mad, it's a legit question. Just means you have to shred extra hard from 8am-5pm!! It's going to be a crazy day no matter what.
Apr 3 2013 7:46PM
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shitpoop
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I remember seeing a summer rail jam video a while ago. Are you guys doing that again?
Apr 3 2013 9:19PM
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BWalmer
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Yup, we do several rail jams over the course of the summer/fall. The Village Ride on June 15th should be the first one. Then Avon Day on September 21st, and Simsbury Celebrates on November 30th (there are more in there, the dates just aren't known yet...once we know all the dates a thread is usually posted as well as info on Sundown's facebook/twitter).
Apr 3 2013 9:25PM
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fluff
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Toms - down rail, flat box, down rail, lift tower, jumo

Stinger - 32, ollie pad/skinny, barrel phallus, side kink, jump

happy how it came out as far as closing day parks go.

Saturday 8-5, pond skim, sun and warm temps.   Gonna be a good time

see you here

Apr 4 2013 12:30PM
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shitpoop
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I'm just wondering, where do you guys get the snow?
Apr 4 2013 6:16PM
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BWalmer
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ISCC skating rink
Apr 4 2013 6:20PM
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JWeinstock
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what exactly is this?
Apr 4 2013 6:34PM
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shitpoop
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Oh thats cool in the summer I also get snow from a ice rink for my backyard setup.
Apr 5 2013 3:21PM
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.frenchy
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Thanks a lot to the park crew! You really stepped it up this winter I feel, the setup today was sick too! Learned a bunch of stuff, thanks again!

Seems like there is quite a bit of snow left too
Apr 6 2013 5:56PM
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BWalmer
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Welp, it was a good season. Thanks for putting up with what I'm going to call our experimental year, we know it wasn't perfect all the time, but as long as you guys had fun we're stoked. Hopefully next year will be even better.

See you all in the fall for rail jam season!
Apr 7 2013 9:04AM
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shitpoop
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Thanks park crew....it was such a sick season
Apr 7 2013 3:05PM
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shitpoop
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Any u guys heading to woodbury tomm? last day....
Apr 8 2013 7:25PM
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YoungChristmas
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Woodbury Lol
Apr 8 2013 9:12PM
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shitpoop
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yeah I know. the owner is being sued by 10 different people right now cause of tubing stuff. ahha. but its only good for preseason cause theres so many people thy dnt give a shit and you can sneak on. the owner i think raped me but im not sure....
Apr 8 2013 9:34PM
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