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3 MUST HAVE Terrain Park Features for Upcoming Year

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MitchT
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If the park where you ride decided they were going to add 3 brand new terrain park features this year to the hill/mountain what would you want them to be and why?
Aug 28 2013 2:09PM
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Huck_Norris
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When you guys say tube do you mean those big black culvert/fart tubes?
Aug 29 2013 8:14AM
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skiierman
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I'd love to have a jail bait rail at PC this year.

For those of you who don't know, a jail bait rail is a feature that looks long but when you hit it, you find out it's way shorter than previously thought. When you get to the end, you get arrested and go to jail for 3-6 months.
Aug 29 2013 8:42AM
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84891jnf92048
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honestly though, waxed, well arranged jersey barriers could be the most fun thing ever. with three of them you could make a 30 foot long double kink, or double drop, or double elbow, or set them up in any number of combinations, or separately. they're just wide enough to 50-50. there are trannies on both sides.
Aug 29 2013 10:41AM
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J-T
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Nah they're metal and non-corrugated, and usually thinner.
Aug 29 2013 10:42AM
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Huck_Norris
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ok so like a 6-8" diameter pipe to slide?
Aug 29 2013 10:46AM
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Saga.
Posts: 3812 - Karma: 45,323
Most people I think are referring to lift tower tubes. When mountains take old un used lift towers and lay them on the ground. Brighton and Mammoth have a bunch. Some people might be talking about larger diameter rails like keystone has. Those are just normal rails but anywhere from 4" to 8" in diameter.
Aug 29 2013 10:58AM
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freddy.allport
Posts: 237 - Karma: 953
For edelweiss:
Dfd tube
Long tube
Close out or y rail like at breck/keystone has
Aug 29 2013 11:32AM
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binturong-qwerty
Posts: 1506 - Karma: 146
Big boulder:

nice 20 ft step-up
50 ft flat corrugated (not metal)to like 5 ft drop
down-flat tube
Aug 29 2013 11:45AM
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j.engel
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Do you ride at blackstrap or is it closed?
Aug 29 2013 11:50AM
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hemlockjibber8
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These guys build a ton of cool stuff. A whole catalogue full of tubes and urban shit. http://www.snowparksolutions.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=results/category_id=14/mode=cat/cat14.htm
Aug 29 2013 12:00PM
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appa
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the pcmr elbow single pipe. nuff said.
Aug 29 2013 12:45PM
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Saga.
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Wish this thing were more kinked.
Aug 29 2013 12:48PM
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CKpolicy
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this would be the most fun ive ever had in a park
Aug 29 2013 12:52PM
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TOAST.
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We made a small one last year it was so much fun to just flow through.
Aug 29 2013 2:34PM
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Michael_Thatcher
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Not OP, but it is closed, it has been for quite a while unfortunately. We ride at Mission Ridge however there are more small hills in northern Saskatchewan.
Aug 29 2013 2:35PM
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FIRETHECANNONS
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More urban style features, closeouts, gaps on, wall rides etc. A small line of jumps, not tiny but not big either, just solid 25, 30, 35 footers More creative fun boxes, like dinosaur, and boxilla type stuff
Aug 29 2013 3:04PM
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JAH_TAHOE
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THIS
Aug 29 2013 3:44PM
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Huck_Norris
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Ah, ok thanks for the clarification. I'm kind of a feature n00b.
Aug 29 2013 4:01PM
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Plankton
Posts: 3226 - Karma: 6,840
flat rail, flat down rail
i want easy flatbars to learn a ton of shit on!
and more jumps, cranmore has one jump
one jump.
Aug 29 2013 4:03PM
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AndreyaZvonar
Posts: 684 - Karma: 2,231
Jay Peak

a booter
up rail to flat down box
their roller coaster to the big rainbow
Aug 29 2013 4:48PM
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therocksnowpark
Posts: 845 - Karma: 1,169
I love shredding 6in diameter PVC tubes, so yeah tyrol basin get some tubes!
Aug 29 2013 4:54PM
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Winterski
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My friend who had only skied like 2 times in his life decided to hit that box at full speed for whatever reason and ended up overshooting the box by a mile and got a good amount of air and wiped out. Came out of it with a broken wrist.
Aug 29 2013 5:22PM
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JDUBSki22
Posts: 173 - Karma: 175
this is the best comment ever
Aug 29 2013 5:29PM
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BigDog
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Jumps before January would be tight.
Aug 29 2013 6:07PM
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Weird_Tofer
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Step up jump, canon rail/box, pyramid box than could be ridden on from riding up the walls on either side
Aug 29 2013 6:49PM
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amandabynes
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this and this... right next to each other



Aug 29 2013 7:16PM
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will-blackwell
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i wanna see a 60ft long spine that you can hit like a hip left or right from the same takeoff

i can imagine also hitting it from the side and transferring over with a tap or handplant or something

one of my local hills had one in like 2001 and i haven't seen one since, one of the older dudes sent an air straight over the whole thing, blew my mind as a kid
Aug 29 2013 7:39PM
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pcurran871
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A step up cannon rail to a double kinked rail set at street height would be sweet. Then I've always thought a flat up flat down box/ flat rail would be a lot of fun 3rd feature would be an s shaped ribbed pipe if that's even possible I'm not sure!
Aug 29 2013 7:43PM
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jeb_b_vt
Posts: 1047 - Karma: 1,294
DFD tube
flat rail with a nice drop at the end
flat-down rail or just a smooth down rail
Aug 29 2013 8:21PM
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Turd.Ferguson
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box on stairs so i can shred then pop off and land with my arms out then swooshing in to impress the ladies, then a wallride because that shit is G to jib off of.
Aug 29 2013 9:30PM
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MitchT
Posts: 560 - Karma: 4,095
Blackstrap is closed, they made a bunch of noise about re-opening it but it fell through. I ride at Mission Ridge Winter Park and it has about 9 runs with a decent little park that we're always trying to improve. Its only 300 vertical feet but we try and do with what we have!
Aug 29 2013 9:32PM
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.zobel.
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Habitat park, whistler. Super long, fairly low urban down.
Aug 29 2013 9:42PM
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Ski_Alot
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A good down tube
A REAL close out rail (not that stupid shit they had last year)
Not a feature, but just good all-around park maintenance

Aug 29 2013 10:58PM
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Miomo
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SICK JOKE, BROOOOO
Aug 29 2013 11:07PM
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Elmo.
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down flat snow making tube

wallride tranny type feature

jersey barrier with crepper donkey
Aug 29 2013 11:57PM
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OldDirtyPete
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Aug 30 2013 12:14PM
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beauchamp
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that's a pretty good start
Aug 30 2013 9:39PM
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fredyferl
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1- A long 4kink, quick kinks aren't my favorites
2- A 40-50 foot down rail, long rails are my favorites
3- A DFD with a big tube like the one from Brighton

Now I feel like doing the opposite, 3 features that should be banned, at least from my point of view:

1- Down boxes, they're OK for learning but no tricks are legit on those, especially switch ups. If you're gonna have one, but an other option besides it, like a down rail

2- Short rails

3- Permanent rail setups: my resort built a permanent staircase, dumbest shit they could have done

Aug 31 2013 1:18PM
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84891jnf92048
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I like down boxes almost exclusively for nose presses. They're a little more challenging since you're leaning farther downhill than you would on a flat box to get your weight over your noses and off of your feet. It just adds a little bit more of a scare factor since you have to put so much weight right down the fall line. And down boxes are funny to just do effortless k-feds on over and over again.
Aug 31 2013 1:27PM
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Flacker
Posts: 578 - Karma: 1,277
A Solid jump cause the jumps last year were terrible
An S rail
And a creative rail something I've never hit before


Aug 31 2013 1:32PM
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JuliusJ
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Mt Bachelor has these. But I disagree, they sorta destroy skis.
Aug 31 2013 1:42PM
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Park.
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box is still alive but it got hit by the groomer and now its pushes you off to the right same with the rainbow
Aug 31 2013 2:03PM
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filipoio
Posts: 293 - Karma: 1,569
A jump, a rail and a box
Aug 31 2013 2:09PM
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fredyferl
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Funnest rails ever.
Aug 31 2013 3:58PM
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first_rodeo
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features longer than x factor rails

Aug 31 2013 4:40PM
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Saga.
Posts: 3812 - Karma: 45,323
Ugh that blows. I hate when groomers hit features. I feel like they always hit the best ones too.
Aug 31 2013 8:55PM
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GayWolf420
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Jumps, Rails and a superpipe
Aug 31 2013 11:47PM
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270on420out
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15 foot tranny
Wide Down tube
50 ft flatbar
Aug 31 2013 11:47PM
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shred.stickz
Posts: 279 - Karma: 1,715
Yawgoo Valley:

-anything that is not built by 12 year old snowboarders
-preferably anything the Yawgoons construct
Sep 1 2013 5:04PM
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theabortionator
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Good luck getting a nice jump at mount jore ever. The only good jump I can think of was the bottom of sleighride in 08/09. Wasn't too big but it was built pretty nice.

Had a really nice nice take off 07/08 at the top of sleighride at the "big bigger" spot but the landing never got pushed steep enough. Beautiful takeoff, okay jump.

I'll be up there this year to hit some glades and take some park laps/ see who's kickin around those parts still. Hope they build some nice stuff in the park. Is that Down flat gone for good?
Sep 17 2013 4:49PM
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