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Favorite old school park feature

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SimplyClean
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What is everyone's favorite old school park feature? Back in the day they definitely had some crazy features that you'd never see in today's parks. Lets see some photos/screen grabs of old rail/jump setups!

Mine are probably the up box to tank gap from Realtime(2007?) and the gap to butter table to step down at the 2007 CTI.

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Jan 30 2014 2:41PM
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Mr.CarrotCake
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ghost ride the whip lmao
Jan 31 2014 6:32PM
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Lemuel
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At least he found the tranny.

And there was mention of that god awful AMP bus... can't believe Sugarbush wasted their money on that hunk of junk. That thing should have died at Stowe. It's sad that Okemo got rid of the wallride and replaced it with the AMP bus in the first place.
Jan 31 2014 9:08PM
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LukasSchroeder
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beat me to it dammit haha
that feature was awesome
Jan 31 2014 11:58PM
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Gsince93
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ohhhh that video gets me every time haha and I woldn't mind seeing a massive tire stall... maybe it's just my park that doesn't have them anymore?
Feb 1 2014 10:09AM
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Brule.
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I think they had it at Stowe before they had it at Sugarbush.

Somewhere in the beginning.
Feb 1 2014 10:53AM
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Brule.
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I remember seeing it as the opening gate at the top of the Nor'Easter park, back when their rails were purple. I'm not sure if they still have it because I haven't been there in two years.
Feb 1 2014 11:02AM
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j_romero
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The 100 foot rail at Bear Mountain they took out two years ago
Feb 1 2014 11:20AM
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BROBRO
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pretty sure this was the last year xgames had a channel gap

Feb 1 2014 2:25PM
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Chubz.
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Yup! What ever happened to it?
Feb 1 2014 5:13PM
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meathead13
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We used to have this floating around Idaho hosting rail jams back in 2002-2008ishClick for larger imageClick for larger imageClick for larger imageClick for larger image
Feb 1 2014 7:54PM
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Her0ic
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sun Valley Idaho is actually the home of Smith so I see the Smith truck rail often.
Feb 1 2014 8:07PM
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-justice-
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Booter to butter block to drop in PBP's War
Feb 1 2014 8:41PM
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swoger
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I feel like every mountain went through the "We need a bus" phase


Feb 1 2014 9:05PM
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Ito
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I always thought that this gondola jib from Yearbook looked super fun
Feb 2 2014 1:16AM
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Casey
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Haha true. Snoqualmie had a van for a couple years. It was a big deal at the time because it had graffiti on it.
Feb 2 2014 2:35PM
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WaffleMaster
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Really waiting for the Port-O-Jib. Preferably full and stanky.
Feb 2 2014 8:52PM
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backseat.bandit
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Ok I definitely did not think that existed anywhere outside jibbin
Feb 3 2014 6:00AM
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theabortionator
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omg way back in 07? This is what happens when 15 year olds make a thread about "old school" stuff.


Also what's old school about that besides your opinion of the date?
Feb 3 2014 8:24AM
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LeChat
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The sketchy odd feature that ask you some imagination to figure out how you have to hit it...
Feb 3 2014 9:58AM
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Blurst
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Feb 3 2014 10:20AM
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SimplyClean
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I'm 24 actually...and like I said something put up in '07 - today can still be old school. For instance a park crew digging up an old feature that wasn't used for years...or them replicating something that did exist a long time ago.

example = the channel/hip/quarter pipe feature at the thall invitational that took place last year. The feature style is still old school, which is why Tanner brought it back for his event because he missed it.

Feb 3 2014 11:57AM
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Mr.CarrotCake
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"backwards ski jump fail" you can tell this was tailored for gapers

Feb 3 2014 6:24PM
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andrew_marshall
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the giant satellite dish at June Mtn
Feb 3 2014 6:48PM
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Deforestation
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Okemo bus from like 5 years ago
http://blog.nj.com/skiing/2009/12/the_bus_is_back_at_okemo_and_i.html
Feb 3 2014 7:30PM
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belden...
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first shot

Feb 3 2014 8:10PM
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NinetyFour
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I'll see if I can get some locals to dig up said footage. Pretty sure a few people went into the side or smashed through the glass to the inside of it last year. I know forsure someone separated a shoulder on it. Anyways it's back this year and the fucking goons at Assholesippi have it set up running across the hill with a jump before it. Except the lip of the jump is below the roofline and the takeoff is way too flat so it projects you into the side... I'll be there this weekend and they're too lazy to do even the most basic park maintenance so I'll doubt they've moved it, therefor I'll take a picture.

Feb 3 2014 8:24PM
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Bumblesteeze
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I know this isn't really a park feature, but big road gaps are now a lost art.
Feb 3 2014 9:42PM
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WaffleMaster
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Toilet bowl at Squaw.

Not really for jibbing or tricks. Still rad.

Not old school either, assuming its still there.

Still rad.
Feb 3 2014 9:52PM
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Roy
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Been slaying park since '01 and what I miss most are:
1. Channel gaps, because your girlfriend had to pull your nuts out of her purse and let you have them back so you could hit them. They resulted in epic crashes and you just generally felt like the fucking man going that big.

2. The Smith Limo cuz that thing was just that cool. Not to mention it represented a time when it felt like companies were putting a lot more resources into the sport as a hole.

3. Absurdly long rails. Resorts would put them in, trying to out do each other in some sort of arms race of building hilariously long rails. (Often these rails would earn you a season pass if you had footy of yourself greasing the thing). Nothing like spending three days hiking an 85 foot S rail hoping that this time would be the one.
Feb 3 2014 10:36PM
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Uncle_Remus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWLpKKeIvG8#t=16

The Dragon rail @ 1:35 is the oldest rail we have last time it was used was the 2004 ultimate bumps and jumps rail jam. (fun fact) Tanner Hall and Steele Spence were the only 2 guys to get it!
Feb 5 2014 6:42AM
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Deforestation
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Wut, that kills your momentum so much
Feb 5 2014 7:38AM
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thugsteez
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Good ole table tops. Classic
Mar 29 2014 10:53PM
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Park.
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Okemo has a crazy rail set up as a gate entrance now and my coach was telling me how he was witnessed the first skier to actually hit and grease it then he went out and greased it. pretty sick stuff to hear about

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2431/3693359661_0b1b5264d4.jpg its like this but bigger
Mar 30 2014 12:36AM
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theabortionator
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Truth. Urban killed them.
Mar 30 2014 12:45AM
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128368798788
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I remember watching Bobby Brown, Drake Unruh, and Gus Kenworthy hitting this thing in Loveland, CO in like 2005.

BRING BACK THE SMITH LIMO
Mar 30 2014 11:46AM
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