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What Are Your Favorite Park Features???

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TheHERDSkiing
Posts: 75 - Karma: 259
Everyone has their favorites, whether it be a certain type of rail, step-up, hip, half pipe etc.
My personal favorite are poppy 20-25 foot jumps, enough air to get techy but not big enough to wreck yourself to bad. Oh and boxrails, doesn't matter if its df, dfd, etc. fun to just mess around on those.
What about you guys? Favorite features and why?
Dec 10 2012 3:13AM
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Stickity
Posts: 7750 - Karma: 769
mellow downbox, ~8 inches wide, a foot above the lip
Dec 10 2012 3:18AM
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SeanB
Posts: 3022 - Karma: 71
I like hips and spines and step-ups myself.
Dec 10 2012 3:34AM
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Tikayt
Posts: 1031 - Karma: 1,543
Flat down box are classic but always so fun to hit. I love step ups, there'sn't so many in parks but I like the soft landing.
Dec 10 2012 3:39AM
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Heart
Posts: 6156 - Karma: 3,462
step ups, butter boxes, corrogated pipes, shotgun rails, jumps where you can air to the sides of the landing, barrels you can tap, and mellow c boxes that are pressable
Dec 10 2012 10:03AM
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Round-Four
Posts: 1073 - Karma: 174
round flat rails
swooshy rails (the ones that start flat and go up at the end)
propane tanks
polejams
Dec 10 2012 10:40AM
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TOAST.
Posts: 7476 - Karma: 35,973
Combo rails-srail to dfd
Challenging rails to complete.
Dec 10 2012 10:47AM
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SkierPT
Posts: 2177 - Karma: 4,720
Tubes for sure
Dec 10 2012 10:51AM
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Montana_Hoodrat
Posts: 1953 - Karma: 1,481
4' diameter propane tanks

cannons

"C" rails and boxes

wallrides

step up jumps (i actually hate step downs and tables. floating is more fun than falling)
Dec 10 2012 11:22AM
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DR.SHRED
Posts: 2134 - Karma: 503
hips and out of the ordinary features
Dec 10 2012 11:28AM
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andrewblackie
Posts: 292 - Karma: 109
Rainbow-to-down rails, like this one...

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Dec 10 2012 11:32AM
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Kretzschmar
Posts: 6706 - Karma: 98,266
our park had a stepup a few years ago, i loved it.

sort of had a stepup last year, it was a 55 footer and super floaty so fun to bust out cossacks over it


i love tube rails and 4 inch boxes with a decent dropoff to huck spins

Dec 10 2012 11:33AM
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RyCo19
Posts: 365 - Karma: 503
Step ups and FDF rails/skinny boxes
Dec 10 2012 1:20PM
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jrl
Posts: 1227 - Karma: 1,239
Tubes and Barrels are my favorite.

I haven't hit a barrel dfd yet but they seem like they would be a good time
Dec 10 2012 1:24PM
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DERS.
Posts: 6299 - Karma: 1,293
a real mellow dfd tube or tripple barrel. damn....
Dec 10 2012 1:27PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
Posts: 11988 - Karma: 12,261
up flat rails are sweet and tubes are easy to make yourself feel good just because they're so easy to throw shit on.
Dec 10 2012 1:32PM
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Steeze_Minister
Posts: 1432 - Karma: 240
flat down boxes and rails for sure
Dec 10 2012 1:46PM
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last_tango
Posts: 2635 - Karma: 2,665
Bonk hits and random ass shit like vending machines and benches.
Dec 10 2012 1:52PM
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Panda_with_Guns
Posts: 3040 - Karma: 1,620
Hmm... Probably down rails
Dec 10 2012 1:52PM
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Dr.Dickless
Posts: 2620 - Karma: 1,392
i like just messing around on easy flat boxes

a couple years ago at my home mountain they had a sweet step over with a tree tap in the middle, i think thats my favorite feature ever
Dec 10 2012 1:58PM
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Granby_killdozer
Posts: 2380 - Karma: -11,976
any DFD, up rails with big steep landings, pills, mail boxes, corrugateds, and 30-35 ft tables.
Dec 10 2012 2:00PM
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riddsicle
Posts: 684 - Karma: 264
The DFD tube at Killington is too much fun.  Also the donkey dick tube
Dec 10 2012 2:10PM
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OhioDreams
Posts: 444 - Karma: 918
Big (50-70ft), floaty stepovers with a nice smooth pop and decently steep take off. AKA pretty much all Breck jumps :)

Also fat tube rails are tons of fun and almost always slide like butter.
Dec 10 2012 2:49PM
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stizzle
Posts: 371 - Karma: 623
The hip to gong tap at The Canyons. I love hips and love the annoying sound of gongs... perfect combo
Dec 10 2012 2:59PM
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Zump.
Posts: 3338 - Karma: 305
Propane tank
Dec 10 2012 3:15PM
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Snowtorious_BIG
Posts: 659 - Karma: 1,467
tubes 20 foot jumps flat down rails (hit my first one sunday)
Dec 10 2012 3:15PM
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gnartogue
Posts: 1005 - Karma: 417
those skinny box/rail things they have at mount snow
Dec 10 2012 3:16PM
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trilliam
Posts: 157 - Karma: 46
donkey dicks for sure. or nice dfd's for disasters.
Dec 10 2012 3:21PM
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MustBeMattyB
Posts: 495 - Karma: 2,147
Pole jam to rail combo
Dec 10 2012 3:25PM
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ILLinoisance
Posts: 3527 - Karma: 5,398
floaty jumps and big downrails.
Dec 10 2012 3:26PM
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RagingBuffalo
Posts: 143 - Karma: 151
Tranny is so fun, and floaty step ups
Dec 10 2012 3:27PM
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TheHERDSkiing
Posts: 75 - Karma: 259
Dang! Surprised so many people like step ups too, wonder why resorts don't make them very often though...
Dec 10 2012 7:48PM
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Montana_Hoodrat
Posts: 1953 - Karma: 1,481
the park has to have a steep downhill to uphill run.

they aren't exactly common features on most mountians.
Dec 10 2012 10:16PM
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roddy116
Posts: 10627 - Karma: 7,423
flat down, or just mellow down rails. also shotgun boxes are fun, anything that you can get on the side of.

also just a flat box that you can spin and spin on.
Dec 10 2012 10:18PM
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doGelyst
Posts: 2491 - Karma: 508
tech rails, especially elbows or Z's
Dec 10 2012 10:22PM
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OCM
Posts: 1276 - Karma: 975
Not necessarily, if you think about it all you need is for the pitch to level out before the lip nautrally, and then the landing can be above or equal to the height of the lip fairly easily
Dec 10 2012 10:24PM
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roddy116
Posts: 10627 - Karma: 7,423
i also love corrugated rails.
Dec 10 2012 10:25PM
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ColinB
Posts: 1452 - Karma: 2,236
well built 60ish foot step-over jumps nothing beats them. as far as rails, probably flat down rails with a nice long down
Dec 10 2012 10:41PM
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WPoch
Posts: 1751 - Karma: 3,831
long ass flat boxes
Dec 10 2012 10:44PM
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iLiKeShiFTieZ
Posts: 695 - Karma: 350
step ups and down rails
Dec 10 2012 10:44PM
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Heart
Posts: 6156 - Karma: 3,462
I'd say step ups are the easiest to make. Unlike normal jumps you can make them at the bottom of a hill on the flat. just have the takeoff sitting on the flat and then a big pyramid in front of it.
Dec 11 2012 10:27AM
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IanAvery-Leaf
Posts: 9931 - Karma: 9,399
yeah I fucking love stepups and Loon refuses to build them now, crossing my fingers for this season...
Dec 11 2012 10:31AM
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Slowbro
Posts: 3842 - Karma: 21,185
stepups.stepovers, tube dfd's
Dec 11 2012 2:34PM
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ski0
Posts: 2321 - Karma: 5,370
closeout rails and bonks
Dec 11 2012 2:44PM
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ForeverYung
Posts: 8385 - Karma: 2,060
To be honest, just a plain ol down bar
Dec 11 2012 2:51PM
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Poop_nugget
Posts: 534 - Karma: -15
A-frames
Dec 11 2012 2:54PM
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BigScaryLarry
Posts: 1448 - Karma: 2,732
down or flat tubes. like the really big ones. like an old lift tower like mount snow has
Dec 11 2012 2:55PM
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uhrel
Posts: 164 - Karma: 64
25 foot flat bars are the best things, shotguns are also acceptable at this length
Dec 11 2012 4:24PM
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Montana_Hoodrat
Posts: 1953 - Karma: 1,481
assuming theres a run with a flat spot at the bottom
Dec 11 2012 8:05PM
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DIX~
Posts: 4695 - Karma: 6,502
Urban on flat tubes
Dec 11 2012 8:09PM
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skiSBmaine
Posts: 929 - Karma: 589
Holy poop this looks fun.

But personally I like things I can learn new tricks on, long boxes/rails/barrels etc
Dec 11 2012 8:34PM
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