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parkbuilder17
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I saw this out there from Nashoba Valley in MA outside of Boston.

and this from Sunday River on Facebook.

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is anyone else doing anything this year to their parks?
Aug 22 2013 12:09PM
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ndye
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I hope Nashoba leaves a few of those trees for a less megapark look to the park. I mean obviously cut down whats needed for grooming/features.  but leave some around
Aug 22 2013 12:22PM
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raymondcabral
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I wish we had a bigger park here at Sunapee.
Aug 22 2013 12:28PM
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PsychedelicMoose
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I wish my park actually used all their jibs instead of having a showcase in the parking lot all season long.
Aug 22 2013 12:31PM
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ndye
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I cant hide from you

Aug 22 2013 12:40PM
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Miomo
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I never understood why they can't use more rails if there's space. Every time I see an unused rail sitting around, I die a little.
Aug 22 2013 12:42PM
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SkiBum.
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Most resorts don't have the space to use every one of their features at the same time or the employee power to build and maintain that on a nightly basis.

Also, if every feature was in, it would get stale quick. You need extras so you can switch it up.
Aug 22 2013 1:00PM
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-emile-
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hahahaahha coming from avila , this makes me laugh
Aug 22 2013 1:03PM
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TOAST.
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Cats need space to move. A lot of time it looks like wasted space but it's really not. Im not sure if that exactly the case at your resort but for many it is.
Aug 22 2013 1:04PM
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J-Dunn
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lol the hill i grew up riding every year puts less and less in the park. Park crews should smoke a little bit less weed lol
Aug 22 2013 4:27PM
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PsychedelicMoose
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My resort has got over 3k vert, a gondola that takes you up, and they only got 15-20 features up at a time, they have about 40-50 features just chilling in the parking lot.
Aug 22 2013 5:14PM
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Kretzschmar
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unless you're my park which puts up the 2 main parks and leaves them be the same for 80% of the season
Aug 22 2013 5:16PM
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Mids
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My home hill in Afton, Minnesota is getting big renovation to the park. Last year they where bought out by Epic (the same place that owns Breck, vail, copper, ect...)

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In previous years it was just the middle run that was open.
Aug 22 2013 5:31PM
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CashmereCat
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I think that snowstar in Andalusia might be.
Aug 22 2013 5:33PM
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SkiBum.
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You're a bit confused...

It's the "epic pass". Thats just a season pass.

Breck and Vail are owned by Vail Corp. Which owns Afton.

Copper is owned by Powdr





Aug 22 2013 5:37PM
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Mids
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Sorry, I have shit for brains. But still I'm pretty excited for the upcoming year.
Aug 22 2013 5:44PM
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rockersteez
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Gotta go big. Glad to hear about some smaller mountains making moves the last couple season. I get more stoked seeing the little guys build their first park, or really take it seriously and step it up than I do with some of the big mountains.

It's awesome seeing places with out the huge budget really putting an effort into making things sick. Obviously not hating on the big mountains because some of them are fucking sick, just saying I root for the little guys.

Aug 23 2013 4:25PM
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Nashoba_Parks
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Who are you calling "little"?!
Aug 23 2013 10:04PM
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BigDog
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Fucking this. Same at my mountain
Aug 24 2013 1:45PM
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fredyferl
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Meanwhile in Quebec, resorts(if we can call them so) don't see why they should build good parks anymore and are cutting their budget, so one year a mountain has a decent park and the next year they only have a beginner park, and the good parks aren't following the current trends in park building
Aug 24 2013 2:13PM
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same story for my home resort in new york and it's the saddest thing ever as they literally went bankrupt.
Aug 24 2013 2:19PM
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Billups
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Very true. I know we have to design and build our parks with this in mind because we have such limited space to work with.
Aug 24 2013 9:30PM
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DaneKirk
Posts: 366 - Karma: 2,056
My home mountain could be buying some of the old Snow Park NZ rails which would be sick.
Aug 24 2013 11:59PM
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Nashoba_Parks
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Safety should be a parks foremost concern. I try to put in as many features i can, but not at the expense of our guests safety. Traffic congestion can kill a parks flow. One of the hardest part of the job for a park manager is explaining to his or her employees how the cat will maneuver to maintain the proposed feature. Sometimes it workman sometimes it just isn't feasable.
Aug 25 2013 11:44AM
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mik0tsi
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all of you guys are lucky that you even have a park! we dont have a shit at my home mountain
Aug 25 2013 11:53AM
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tomPietrowski
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Whistler are changing up the terrain garden this year. With the new crystal chair it is moving to that area of the moutain around rock an roll ect. Should e a much better area for it riding back out to solar always sucked.
Aug 25 2013 12:50PM
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