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Tomorrow is staff retreat day. Good grief.

B1tchwork less

I quit my job

YOLO

theabortionatorI quit my job

YOLO

Weren't you about to get fired anyway?

DeforestationWeren't you about to get fired anyway?

Further proving that those who work too much are less productive.

THEPROPHETFurther proving that those who work too much are less productive.

That's so false. Borty was working literally by himself and did a hell of a lot for that place. Given the situation he was in, he did way more and gave more of a fuck than most people would. The dude killed it as a one man park crew. And itt wasn't "less productive" because he worked too much. It was "less productive" because he was working solo and couldn't hire people and thus had to work more.

I guess its not that big of a deal but an apology sometimes admitting your fuck ups does go along way instead of spinning it into somehow it being other peoples faults. one of our owners has had an antique bowl missing for a month or so and we just now found it inside their residence.

First we thought some renter guests stole it (which doesn't make any damn sense, why would you try and smuggle a bowl thru airport security lol), then it turned into somehow our housekeepers being the thieves, so we got the police involved and started putting together a police report this week only for the owners to email us this evening informing us that they have found their bowl that was stashed under some furniture by previous guests which makes a whole lot of sense, they probably had small children and didn't want stuff to break, etc. (this condo is littered with expensive-ass trinkets and wall hangings).

instead of a simple "We are deeply sorry for wasting not only your time but the local authorities time", it turns into "housekeeping is supposed to look underneath furniture so it should have been found earlier".

its whatever now but I think it speaks volumes about a persons character when they accuse people of things and don't apologize when it turns out to be completely false.

MinggThat's so false. Borty was working literally by himself and did a hell of a lot for that place. Given the situation he was in, he did way more and gave more of a fuck than most people would. The dude killed it as a one man park crew. And itt wasn't "less productive" because he worked too much. It was "less productive" because he was working solo and couldn't hire people and thus had to work more.

Yeah that's the point. 2 or 3 workers who are not overworked are always more productive than 1 worker who works too much.

chill lax

DeforestationWeren't you about to get fired anyway?

I doubt it. I mean anythings possible but it would have been kind of dumb on their part.

Built them their first new rails in 7 years. Only 4 of them but I didn't have any time. Did a bunch of stuff with no employees. Put something like 8-850 into the place of my own money. At the end was salary at 40 hours working more than that. The rail jam week I think I worked 86. Another week was upper 70s.

Also until the end of the season the time I was there I was putting in work.

I could have done a lot more for them but I had super limited resources. Like there was a discussion of whether or not they could afford a can of spray paint to paint their logo as well as the sponsor logo on the rails. I got tired of it said, fuck it and bought the fucking paint. It was a can of paint. The stencils on the smaller rails I bought myself too.Bought a lot of paint by the gallon as well. Also provided all of the welding wire, grind wheels, flap discs, cut off wheels, etc for fixing and building the rails. That was a good amount of $.

I mean, I told some people to fuck off, more so closer to the end of the my time there, but I worked my ass off for the place.

It's a bummer because I was planning on putting out an edit every other week of the park, getting some good pictures hopefully to post up online and help advertise. I didn't skip that because I got lazy but my 5 person staff was 1 for a good chunk of the season and at it's peak was 2 people. I'm surprised I got anything new built, finished fixing the old features, and got things like the rail jam setup done.

For our rail jam I worked a 22 hour day, went home for 3, went back to work for 17, went home for a few, then worked all day for the event. And I was sick as fuck. Living off dayquil, cough drops, gatorade, and a shit load of caffeine.

I mean whatever. The park clearly wasn't worth investing in, so I wouldn't have been chocked if they canned me, but it would have been dumb.

Even now I'm bummed about it because I want to build those kids a good park. Never got the chance, and never will. In spite of everything actually left the possibility of coming back next season as ridiculously stupid as that would be, because I cared so much about building a good park at this place. That said, I couldn't get them to admit they had given nothing to work with, and that it wasn't just a bad season. That tells me that things are unlikely to change much for next year.

The crazy thing is, I actually had quite a bit of snow in the park. That's the one thing that I hammed them about early, and the one thing they followed through on. Unfortunately do to the cat ops, and not being able to move snow with my rust bucket whip I could take, it kind of just sat there wasting away.

I mean the jumps resembled jumps for a change, were actually not too bad, and some of the rail setups were decent, but I never even got the park fully built out because I can't actually move giant rails by myself.(I did dig out, move and dig in a few things by hand at night with the shitty cat)

The amount of rails I dug in/out or dragged around the mtn by hand was crazy.

It was just one of those situations where people just don't give a fuck about the park. It's fine, people can do whatever they want, I just unfortunately care wayyyyyy too fucking much about this stuff to work in that environment and put out such a mediocre product.

Sure it was a shit season, I get it. This was my 14th season in the industry, 11th in the park. I don't know everything about it, but I understand that when the weather sucks, and people aren't skiing, money is tight. I'm not surprised I didn't have a full staff, one of my parks I axed in advance because it didn't seem worth the resources with the start we had. But with all the snow I had in the main park I could have built something awesome.

Even just a few people to help me build it, and I'll maintain it(and cat ops please don't fuck with it or give me a cat with a tiller) The stuff that I had in my head was sick. And at least for the most part, I feel like I'm good at making those ideas come to life.

As danetron said somewhere else. It's like the ex that you still have feelings for but know you can't be with, the fish that got away, etc.




Look at what you did! I didn't even rant in here on the topic and then BOOM you unleashed the keyboard beast.

THEPROPHETYeah that's the point. 2 or 3 workers who are not overworked are always more productive than 1 worker who works too much.

chill lax

oh lol I'm sorry I'm slightly not sober right now. I just got the wrong idea of what you were saying. My bad haha.

Minggoh lol I'm sorry I'm slightly not sober right now. I just got the wrong idea of what you were saying. My bad haha.

I can see why one would assume I was attacking him

theabortionatorI doubt it. I mean anythings possible but it would have been kind of dumb on their part.

Built them their first new rails in 7 years. Only 4 of them but I didn't have any time. Did a bunch of stuff with no employees. Put something like 8-850 into the place of my own money. At the end was salary at 40 hours working more than that. The rail jam week I think I worked 86. Another week was upper 70s.

Also until the end of the season the time I was there I was putting in work.

I could have done a lot more for them but I had super limited resources. Like there was a discussion of whether or not they could afford a can of spray paint to paint their logo as well as the sponsor logo on the rails. I got tired of it said, fuck it and bought the fucking paint. It was a can of paint. The stencils on the smaller rails I bought myself too.Bought a lot of paint by the gallon as well. Also provided all of the welding wire, grind wheels, flap discs, cut off wheels, etc for fixing and building the rails. That was a good amount of $.

I mean, I told some people to fuck off, more so closer to the end of the my time there, but I worked my ass off for the place.

It's a bummer because I was planning on putting out an edit every other week of the park, getting some good pictures hopefully to post up online and help advertise. I didn't skip that because I got lazy but my 5 person staff was 1 for a good chunk of the season and at it's peak was 2 people. I'm surprised I got anything new built, finished fixing the old features, and got things like the rail jam setup done.

For our rail jam I worked a 22 hour day, went home for 3, went back to work for 17, went home for a few, then worked all day for the event. And I was sick as fuck. Living off dayquil, cough drops, gatorade, and a shit load of caffeine.

I mean whatever. The park clearly wasn't worth investing in, so I wouldn't have been chocked if they canned me, but it would have been dumb.

Even now I'm bummed about it because I want to build those kids a good park. Never got the chance, and never will. In spite of everything actually left the possibility of coming back next season as ridiculously stupid as that would be, because I cared so much about building a good park at this place. That said, I couldn't get them to admit they had given nothing to work with, and that it wasn't just a bad season. That tells me that things are unlikely to change much for next year.

The crazy thing is, I actually had quite a bit of snow in the park. That's the one thing that I hammed them about early, and the one thing they followed through on. Unfortunately do to the cat ops, and not being able to move snow with my rust bucket whip I could take, it kind of just sat there wasting away.

I mean the jumps resembled jumps for a change, were actually not too bad, and some of the rail setups were decent, but I never even got the park fully built out because I can't actually move giant rails by myself.(I did dig out, move and dig in a few things by hand at night with the shitty cat)

The amount of rails I dug in/out or dragged around the mtn by hand was crazy.

It was just one of those situations where people just don't give a fuck about the park. It's fine, people can do whatever they want, I just unfortunately care wayyyyyy too fucking much about this stuff to work in that environment and put out such a mediocre product.

Sure it was a shit season, I get it. This was my 14th season in the industry, 11th in the park. I don't know everything about it, but I understand that when the weather sucks, and people aren't skiing, money is tight. I'm not surprised I didn't have a full staff, one of my parks I axed in advance because it didn't seem worth the resources with the start we had. But with all the snow I had in the main park I could have built something awesome.

Even just a few people to help me build it, and I'll maintain it(and cat ops please don't fuck with it or give me a cat with a tiller) The stuff that I had in my head was sick. And at least for the most part, I feel like I'm good at making those ideas come to life.

As danetron said somewhere else. It's like the ex that you still have feelings for but know you can't be with, the fish that got away, etc.




Look at what you did! I didn't even rant in here on the topic and then BOOM you unleashed the keyboard beast.

Well that sucks. I feel for you.

Hopefully you can work at a less shitty mountain next year.

THEPROPHETYeah that's the point. 2 or 3 workers who are not overworked are always more productive than 1 worker who works too much.

chill lax

It depends.Obsessed would be a good starting point to describe my motivation. Also pretty good at multi tasking when needed.

If I was less over worked that would have helped things, but if we aren't talking about doubling up, I don't think it would have really helped. Like if I worked 40 hours and then somebody else worked those 40 hours, it really depends on the person and the task, but that's a pretty big assumption to say that would have increased productivity.

There's definitely a point regardless where you're less efficient than your peak, there's no arguing that, but if I was on the clock I was working.

The biggest hang ups near the start and early in the season were $ and lack of tools. I was waiting for this or that to get approved or for this or that tool. I said fuck it and brought in all my own equipment, used my own money and solved that problem.

My lunch breaks were generally me inhaling 3 pieces of pizza on the walk back out from a meeting or getting coffee in the lodge.

Idk. I get your point, I'm just saying I was pretty damn efficient with what I was given.

And for efficiency to $. I was behind a couple weeks from my start date. Lack of tools and $ killed any time that I made up.

Then when I was already behind I got laid off for 3 weeks because of the weather. I understood, we spent an absurd amount of money on upgrades and the weather was killing us financially. I asked if I could work at min wage or work off the clock for that period since things were so far behind.

Idk. It's not a job to me and never had been. I don't always like it, but it's something that I can't get away from. It's not about the money, even if I'm poor. If there's anything I can do to make the park better within reason I'll do it.

I worked a full season for free when my knee was fucked up and was unable to ride and unsure about getting a job.

DeforestationWell that sucks. I feel for you.

Hopefully you can work at a less shitty mountain next year.

That would be glorious. I might take next winter off and either groom, or take it properly off and just build rails and travel. I'm scared at this point that one more bad season may make me never want to step foot in a park again.

Too many friends who were great workers have burnt out from that constant struggle of trying to fight with the mtn on everything to get the park built. It's a shame, and I don't want to be next.

theabortionatorIt depends.Obsessed would be a good starting point to describe my motivation. Also pretty good at multi tasking when needed.

If I was less over worked that would have helped things, but if we aren't talking about doubling up, I don't think it would have really helped. Like if I worked 40 hours and then somebody else worked those 40 hours, it really depends on the person and the task, but that's a pretty big assumption to say that would have increased productivity.

There's definitely a point regardless where you're less efficient than your peak, there's no arguing that, but if I was on the clock I was working.

The biggest hang ups near the start and early in the season were $ and lack of tools. I was waiting for this or that to get approved or for this or that tool. I said fuck it and brought in all my own equipment, used my own money and solved that problem.

My lunch breaks were generally me inhaling 3 pieces of pizza on the walk back out from a meeting or getting coffee in the lodge.

Idk. I get your point, I'm just saying I was pretty damn efficient with what I was given.

You're having the exact same problems as the park manager at my home mountain in Washington. They ignored everyone's pleas to put in a park for like 20 years, and about 5 years ago they finally hired on this super rad dude who worked park crew at PCMR and had a ton of great experience and was just like you were he was very invested in building a rad park for the kids. He put out these drawings and posts on FB of this sick 30 feature park... worked his ASS off building about 20 rails many of which were really sick features definitely not beginner stuff. But when it came time to actually put features in, the upper management basically canceled every plan he had and instead made him only put in about 10 or so of the more basic features (dancefloors, flat down-box, 15 ft flat rail) because they "didn't want people to get hurt" ... Really they are just old school Alta types who don't want to promote the "freestyle" scene on their mountain and have no interest in providing resources (monetary or otherwise) for him to build a good park.


He realized he would never get anywhere with them and said fuck you guys after one season and now runs the sickest park in Washington at Mission Ridge. Now one of my homies who worked on the crew that season is the manager and has been for the last 3 seasons and he is still fighting an uphill battle to make a decent park. He works probably about 70 hrs a week and employs 2 full time employees and one cat but that is all the resources he gets then he catches the flak when kids complain about having a shitty park. They also just started allowing him to build jumps this season after 4 seasons of a "jib only park" and all the sickest features that the original homie built still sit on the side of the run, never able to be put in because the management won't let him.

Bodhisattva_You're having the exact same problems as the park manager at my home mountain in Washington. They ignored everyone's pleas to put in a park for like 20 years, and about 5 years ago they finally hired on this super rad dude who worked park crew at PCMR and had a ton of great experience and was just like you were he was very invested in building a rad park for the kids. He put out these drawings and posts on FB of this sick 30 feature park... worked his ASS off building about 20 rails many of which were really sick features definitely not beginner stuff. But when it came time to actually put features in, the upper management basically canceled every plan he had and instead made him only put in about 10 or so of the more basic features (dancefloors, flat down-box, 15 ft flat rail) because they "didn't want people to get hurt" ... Really they are just old school Alta types who don't want to promote the "freestyle" scene on their mountain and have no interest in providing resources (monetary or otherwise) for him to build a good park.


He realized he would never get anywhere with them and said fuck you guys after one season and now runs the sickest park in Washington at Mission Ridge. Now one of my homies who worked on the crew that season is the manager and has been for the last 3 seasons and he is still fighting an uphill battle to make a decent park. He works probably about 70 hrs a week and employs 2 full time employees and one cat but that is all the resources he gets then he catches the flak when kids complain about having a shitty park. They also just started allowing him to build jumps this season after 4 seasons of a "jib only park" and all the sickest features that the original homie built still sit on the side of the run, never able to be put in because the management won't let him.

Damn dude, that's nuts. It's brutal some places.

If you went to a mountain and said "He I'm good at running a race program. I can make your race program sick" They'd be like "awesome! That sounds great!"

"Hey, I m good at running snowsports and can make your lesson programs sick" "That's awesome!"

"I'm good at building parks and can make you guys a sick park" "Lol that's retarded, get out of here with your newfangled snowboard parks, ramp jumps and grinderbarz!"

Good to hear your buddy found a good place. For a section of the industry that's been growing for years it's crazy how much wasted talent is out their wasting time fighting the up hill battle.

Like " Hey I'm here to try and make you a good park that will make the kids happy and best of all make you $$$. Now please give me as few resources as possible and add as many ridiculous challenges to my job as possible and try and force me too leave".

Would your buddy be able to buy them from the other mtn and bring them over? That's such a bummer to have them sitting there.

^ This guy and another rail never made it into the snow. Nothing like building a bunch but I feel ya. Also a bunch of the rails I repaired and some completely rebuilt never went in.

Somebody should make a video, the way they have park pass videos etc, that's called"terrain parks and you" or something like that. All about how terrain parks aren't completely evil places run by satanic snowboarders(well not always) and sometimes can actually generate money.

When you paint a building, you cover it all and make it look nice. When you put up a fence you get it straight and as tight as possible. If you're going to build a park, why would you want some sketchy pile of steel and snowbanks? It just doesn't look good. It's like building your entire trail map in paint, it kind of works, you can call it a trail map, but in the end it's not going to make anyone excited to come ride your mountain.


It's a crazy world.

Keep being the park man borty big respect for ur passion for the sport.

theabortionatorSomebody should make a video, the way they have park pass videos etc, that's called"terrain parks and you" or something like that. All about how terrain parks aren't completely evil places run by satanic snowboarders(well not always) and sometimes can actually generate money.

When you paint a building, you cover it all and make it look nice. When you put up a fence you get it straight and as tight as possible. If you're going to build a park, why would you want some sketchy pile of steel and snowbanks? It just doesn't look good. It's like building your entire trail map in paint, it kind of works, you can call it a trail map, but in the end it's not going to make anyone excited to come ride your mountain.


It's a crazy world.

That's a nice looking rail my friend. There are places that are just always going to be that way. It's just such a volitle part of the industry that NOBODY really gets to know anything about. It's funny because it happens at seemingly open minded big resorts as well.

Either you get a freestyle acadamy who doesn't understand how building a terrain park works ( it's always funny to see a freestyle coach sit in a cat for a few hours and see for the first time how much work actually goes into building/maintain features), or the retarded parents who think their kids are going to the olympics. You can also add cat drivers who think parks are retarded, and parks managers who are so jaded that they just build the same shit over and over again and have a death grip on feature design.

Now add to that a bitchy ignorant public....and it is fucking tough to just keep at it and still love the sport at the end of the day.

I remember one time doing a jump rebuild and just being so proud of the work I did. Stayed after work to test the features and see if the crew was stoked. Hit the new line and everybody loved it. Asked the regular homies if they liked it, and they were stoked. All it took to ruin my day was two gaper tourists from the city to complain to management.

Crusty douchers.

So I went out in the super sketch conditions at the mtn yesterday to ski with an old friend who hasn't been out in a year or two, and I haven't skied with in something like 7 years. Took 6 laps maybe. Got yelled at from this Mtn Ops dude while I was on the lift from where they were building the pond.

"How are you snowboarding if you aren't working?" -doucher "Because I'm not working and actually have time to" Can't remember what he said but something about not being able to ride and I told him to fuck off. First the owner told me mentioned "You can ride through the end of the season" anyway, but even if he didn't I think it was a $25 lift ticket that day.

So $25 lift ticket
+Some of the sketchiest conditions I've skied
only 6 runs

and you have nothing better to do than bitch?

Oh yeah, and what about my well over $1k that I got screwed out of. But yeah, OH GOD NO A $25 LIFT TICKET!

The kids almost convinced me to come back. I really wanted to build them a park that didn't suck. I never got the chance. And they were like "Pleaseeee come back next year". I didn't cave but I did enough to keep it as a possibility in spite of everything.

That said fuckkkkkkkkk that noise.


Douchebags- ruining the progress of mtns forever.

Congrats to the guy. He'll still be a miserable asshole next year, and nobody is ever going to buy a pass to the place to ride their park.

Renegade Park 2016 featuring 2 18' ish 4" tube rails and a mini wooden stall thing of sorts. The tubes weren't far off the trail but it just shows that people want to fucking shred some rails. People want to hit some jumps and get some fucking air.

Why the fuck can't people just build decent parks. They don't have to be anything crazy. Nothing ridiculously overly elaborate. Just clean well built stuff that allows people to progress.

Obviously if a mtn is larger, and has more of a park scene with better local kids, then some bigger more creative stuff is nice.

Idk, Terrain parks are a draw for the smaller mtn. A big park doesn't work anywhere, some places realistically shouldn't have more than a smaller beginner style park. But for some of the other mountains, a decent park could really help them out.

On a season like this where people weren't coming out in huge number to ski the powder, or even the groomers on the east coast, it would have been a great year imo for some of these places to take their terrain park programs seriously.

theabortionatorCrusty douchers.

So I went out in the super sketch conditions at the mtn yesterday to ski with an old friend who hasn't been out in a year or two, and I haven't skied with in something like 7 years. Took 6 laps maybe. Got yelled at from this Mtn Ops dude while I was on the lift from where they were building the pond.

"How are you snowboarding if you aren't working?" -doucher "Because I'm not working and actually have time to" Can't remember what he said but something about not being able to ride and I told him to fuck off. First the owner told me mentioned "You can ride through the end of the season" anyway, but even if he didn't I think it was a $25 lift ticket that day.

So $25 lift ticket
+Some of the sketchiest conditions I've skied
only 6 runs

and you have nothing better to do than bitch?

Oh yeah, and what about my well over $1k that I got screwed out of. But yeah, OH GOD NO A $25 LIFT TICKET!

The kids almost convinced me to come back. I really wanted to build them a park that didn't suck. I never got the chance. And they were like "Pleaseeee come back next year". I didn't cave but I did enough to keep it as a possibility in spite of everything.

That said fuckkkkkkkkk that noise.


Douchebags- ruining the progress of mtns forever.

Congrats to the guy. He'll still be a miserable asshole next year, and nobody is ever going to buy a pass to the place to ride their park.

Renegade Park 2016 featuring 2 18' ish 4" tube rails and a mini wooden stall thing of sorts. The tubes weren't far off the trail but it just shows that people want to fucking shred some rails. People want to hit some jumps and get some fucking air.

Why the fuck can't people just build decent parks. They don't have to be anything crazy. Nothing ridiculously overly elaborate. Just clean well built stuff that allows people to progress.

Obviously if a mtn is larger, and has more of a park scene with better local kids, then some bigger more creative stuff is nice.

Idk, Terrain parks are a draw for the smaller mtn. A big park doesn't work anywhere, some places realistically shouldn't have more than a smaller beginner style park. But for some of the other mountains, a decent park could really help them out.

On a season like this where people weren't coming out in huge number to ski the powder, or even the groomers on the east coast, it would have been a great year imo for some of these places to take their terrain park programs seriously.

Dang man, the struggles are real lol. Been reading some of the stuff you've been posting and hell does it sound rough. Every time I see anyone on my mountains park crew, I tell em they are killin it, even if they're struggling. I don't care if the tube rail they set up wasn't that great, they got their asses up at 4AM to put it there and I can't imagine what that job would be like if they were just bitched at the whole time.

Thank you for your resilience and passion for your work Borty. You guys are the backbone of park skiing, without you guys pushing mountains and building parks, there wouldn't be the dank parks we have today

I guess it deals with how you are brought up because some of these renting guests have absolutely zero respect for others things. This group royally fucked up an owners unit floors with their ski boots. Super high end wood floors and we explicitly tell people not to waltz around in your boots for that reason. I get you are on vacation and its easy care free living but just be mindful of others things.

This job is going to make me the ultimate traveler when i decide to go on a badass ski trip.

I like helping people and I like doing nice things for people. It's one of those things that I'm happy to do without a second though. Even when I probably have other things that should be more important, like myself, I like putting other people first.

Andddd it just really sucks when people take advantage of that. I know no one is perfect and I don't expect them to be but damn dude. Like theres only so many "mistakes" people make before they're doing it intentionally to gain off of you.

It fucking sicks. I hate being a bitch. I hate calling people out. I genuinely want to trust people but it's really fucking hard to when all people ever do is fuck you over. Like I didn't realize being a genuinely nice person would end up so shitty.

It's just a really bad feeling when you go out of your way and give things up for people and have them not appreciate it. I just want people to be happy but it always blows up in my face.

And it sucks cause now I'm basically gonna have to force myself to be mean and that makes me feel super shitty. Why can't people have just a little bit of respect? This is why there's so many shitty people out there. You do everything you can to help people and they just fuck you over and then you turn into a shitty person. Fucking sucks.

I could never do that to someone. I don't understand why everyone does it to me. I just want everyone to be happy ): Not even in a "I want to please everyone" kind of way. I know you can't please everyone. I just want the people around me to be happy and it always ends up bad. I don't know.

SlushDang man, the struggles are real lol. Been reading some of the stuff you've been posting and hell does it sound rough. Every time I see anyone on my mountains park crew, I tell em they are killin it, even if they're struggling. I don't care if the tube rail they set up wasn't that great, they got their asses up at 4AM to put it there and I can't imagine what that job would be like if they were just bitched at the whole time.

Thank you for your resilience and passion for your work Borty. You guys are the backbone of park skiing, without you guys pushing mountains and building parks, there wouldn't be the dank parks we have today

It can be a great job and a rough job. Its pretty much always a lot of hard work. Some places have things set up better than other but it can be tough anywhere.

Hopefully more mountains begin to look at parks differently. Too many of my friends have burnt out and want nothing to do with the industry ever again.

But thanks for the kind words about park crews. They sure as hell don't hear them from the mtns many places.

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They left the knuckes in the park but plowed the takeoffs and the rest of the park. Surprised they didn't push the knuckles out and use the snow as that would have been the best path down and skied well.

Anyway some kids built this today on one of them. Then the second is an edit I made of my last weekend employed when we had the airbag.

https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.rustin.5/videos/10209392028742035/

DeebieSkeebiesI guess it deals with how you are brought up because some of these renting guests have absolutely zero respect for others things. This group royally fucked up an owners unit floors with their ski boots. Super high end wood floors and we explicitly tell people not to waltz around in your boots for that reason. I get you are on vacation and its easy care free living but just be mindful of others things.

This job is going to make me the ultimate traveler when i decide to go on a badass ski trip.

What do you do exactly?

Idk how to embed facebook videos i guess.

Borty come to WV. We just hired the main park manager from Sugarbush and they are definitely looking for hard working, experienced guys. Plus youd have a lot more freedom at a place like that since its such a big part of the mtn.

theabortionatorIt can be a great job and a rough job. Its pretty much always a lot of hard work. Some places have things set up better than other but it can be tough anywhere.

Hopefully more mountains begin to look at parks differently. Too many of my friends have burnt out and want nothing to do with the industry ever again.

But thanks for the kind words about park crews. They sure as hell don't hear them from the mtns many places.

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They left the knuckes in the park but plowed the takeoffs and the rest of the park. Surprised they didn't push the knuckles out and use the snow as that would have been the best path down and skied well.

Anyway some kids built this today on one of them. Then the second is an edit I made of my last weekend employed when we had the airbag.

https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.rustin.5/videos/10209392028742035/



What do you do exactly?

Omg that kicker is amazing hahaha. I wish my mountain wouldn't have a freak out if we did something like that

Granite_StateBorty come to WV. We just hired the main park manager from Sugarbush and they are definitely looking for hard working, experienced guys. Plus youd have a lot more freedom at a place like that since its such a big part of the mtn.

At first I though you were talking about West Virginia, and I was going to ask how you got down there, and that I always thought you lived in NH because of your name.

Then I thought, oh yeah, waterville valley. That's legit. I never made it there even the season I lived in NH but I hear good things about the parks on the regular.

I'll probably take a season off of the parks and go groom at Vail. I don't really have enough experience to get a job grooming parks so it's kind of my only good option. Sucks because I would have been in a better machine and doing more work next year, but the trade off in madness was too much.

And Idk if I want to work day crew for a bit, and if I did I'd probably try and send it back west anyway. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but I'm getting to old for that shit.

I just gotta up my grooming skills, and maybe work into one of VR's mtns park fleets for a bit.

Then I might scout for another fixer upper mtn and try and hopefully come out with a little more success than this year.

Idk, I just want to make some smaller places better. With some of the more established parks it's great, but whether I worked there or not wouldn't really impact things.

The downside is seasons like this, where everything is a quite fitting abortion :)

theabortionatorAt first I though you were talking about West Virginia, and I was going to ask how you got down there, and that I always thought you lived in NH because of your name.

Then I thought, oh yeah, waterville valley. That's legit. I never made it there even the season I lived in NH but I hear good things about the parks on the regular.

I'll probably take a season off of the parks and go groom at Vail. I don't really have enough experience to get a job grooming parks so it's kind of my only good option. Sucks because I would have been in a better machine and doing more work next year, but the trade off in madness was too much.

And Idk if I want to work day crew for a bit, and if I did I'd probably try and send it back west anyway. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but I'm getting to old for that shit.

I just gotta up my grooming skills, and maybe work into one of VR's mtns park fleets for a bit.

Then I might scout for another fixer upper mtn and try and hopefully come out with a little more success than this year.

Idk, I just want to make some smaller places better. With some of the more established parks it's great, but whether I worked there or not wouldn't really impact things.

The downside is seasons like this, where everything is a quite fitting abortion :)

If the idiot 4/20 bro from my high school made it grooming at Vail I'm sure you've got it in the bag. Come out west it's real nice out here!

Bodhisattva_If the idiot 4/20 bro from my high school made it grooming at Vail I'm sure you've got it in the bag. Come out west it's real nice out here!

ferrrr 20 bruh!!!!!

But yeah I probably will. I was out there 14/15. It was dumb to head back east for this year. I think westward we go.

I turned down a vail job to come east too, so hoping that doesn't hurt me too much. That said I talked with the guy about it and he was pretty cool. Mentioned that I really wanted the job but I had to give this thing a shot back home.

Also it would be epic to able to ride good pipes all the time. I've never really been a big pipe rider, because I've never been around them that much, but I love blasting it out of a big 1/4 or pipe. I only rode the one at vail 4 or 5 times while I was out there but it was a good time.

Maybe I'll see ya out there

I hate kids who think they know it all. It grinds my gears. Im in class answering a question and they god damn interrupt me and keep going. They act like they own the place they always walk around and push people out of the way like there something special. Then there is the kids who think they are amazing a sports. They brag about there aau team and there travel team when they sit the bench. They own all the gear and thats the only thing that they wear. Hat, backpack, shoes, socks anything its there team. They also only talk to a select few and to everyone else they are assholes. I've had a few friends who have became them. They go from great kids to complete assholes. Then there is the thristy tool. I hate these kids. Always talking about or with girls. Everyday they facetime adn text girls. They are the biggest tools they will do anything for a girl because they are are horny as ever.

t_clark110I hate kids who think they know it all. It grinds my gears. Im in class answering a question and they god damn interrupt me and keep going. They act like they own the place they always walk around and push people out of the way like there something special. Then there is the kids who think they are amazing a sports. They brag about there aau team and there travel team when they sit the bench. They own all the gear and thats the only thing that they wear. Hat, backpack, shoes, socks anything its there team. They also only talk to a select few and to everyone else they are assholes. I've had a few friends who have became them. They go from great kids to complete assholes. Then there is the thristy tool. I hate these kids. Always talking about or with girls. Everyday they facetime adn text girls. They are the biggest tools they will do anything for a girl because they are are horny as ever.

And then there are the losers that go in the internet to complain about everyone else

Fred_BearAnd then there are the losers that go in the internet to complain about everyone else

Then there is the losers who qoute everyone else

t_clark110Then there is the losers who qoute everyone else

Then there are the losers who can't spell or grammar.

Fred_BearThen there are the losers who can't spell or grammar.

Then there are the losers who are grammar freaks

t_clark110Then there are the losers who are grammar freaks

Then there are the losers that are soft as charmin and let everything get to them

got denied to my first choice college and then found out my idiot friend got in somehow

Fred_BearThen there are the losers that are soft as charmin and let everything get to them

well at least I dont use quilted northern

t_clark110well at least I dont use quilted northern

Because youre a pleb

Fred_BearAnd then there are the losers that go in the internet to complain about everyone else

Hey guys this thread is a safe space!

JK, fight to the motherfucking death. I'll get the popcorn.

Fred_BearThen there are the losers that are soft as charmin and let everything get to them

Lold at this post with your icon

Just brought all my gear home for the year and now the forecast is calling for 14+ inches tomorrow.

Thanks Obama

Fred_BearBecause youre a pleb

Your very clever. I'm homeless

Buying skis fucking sucks.

Girls skis are actually ass. And the ones that are decent aren't what I want. And all the guys skis that I would actually ride are all 175+ and I'm just barely 5 foot 3.


Maybe this is a sign that I should #stopskiing

MinggBuying skis fucking sucks.

Girls skis are actually ass. And the ones that are decent aren't what I want. And all the guys skis that I would actually ride are all 175+ and I'm just barely 5 foot 3.


Maybe this is a sign that I should #stopskiing

I don't think I've ever seen a model of skis that arent 100% powder oriented that don't come in a 160-170 option.

DeforestationI don't think I've ever seen a model of skis that arent 100% powder oriented that don't come in a 160-170 option.

Everything I find thats like 92-96 underfoot comes in like 171 and up/:

MinggEverything I find thats like 92-96 underfoot comes in like 171 and up/:

For skis ~95cm:
ON3Ps come in 161, Volkls come in 163, Factions come in 166, 4FRNTs come in 164, Moments come in 168, Surfaces come in 161.

DeforestationFor skis ~95cm:
ON3Ps come in 161, Volkls come in 163, Factions come in 166, 4FRNTs come in 164, Moments come in 168, Surfaces come in 161.

I love ON3P and would love to have a pair of park skis from them but filthys/presters are like 86/88 and I'm looking for something wider than my current park skis. I have Jessie 100s which are similar to Kartel 98s but they're just way too heavy for me (park wise). I've hit a few boxes and jumps with those though and like how they feel, they're just too heavy for me. Which is why I'm looking for something like around 95.

I looked at blends, but those were too big. Maybe chronics? Kinda concerned about durability though. Armada and Volkl didn't have anything that caught my eye either. Da nollies would be cool, but those come in 160 which is a little on the shorter side for me but better than being too long and they're 95 underfoot. Madonna's are 96 underfoot and 164, but I guess they're heavier. So I'm worried those are like my Jessie's as well.

Didn't even think about faction or surface. I looked through Line, Armada, 4frnt, on3p, and icelantic.

It sucks. We have no shops to just go to and check this stuff out at. Demo days are like for race skis. I mean we have big names like Line, Atomic, K2, Fischer etc. But like Idk. I'm stress myself out way too much. I'm sure I will make a thread about this in the next few months but yeah. It's just annoying to see sick skis and then they're too big for you haha.

MinggI love ON3P and would love to have a pair of park skis from them but filthys/presters are like 86/88 and I'm looking for something wider than my current park skis. I have Jessie 100s which are similar to Kartel 98s but they're just way too heavy for me (park wise). I've hit a few boxes and jumps with those though and like how they feel, they're just too heavy for me. Which is why I'm looking for something like around 95.

I looked at blends, but those were too big. Maybe chronics? Kinda concerned about durability though. Armada and Volkl didn't have anything that caught my eye either. Da nollies would be cool, but those come in 160 which is a little on the shorter side for me but better than being too long and they're 95 underfoot. Madonna's are 96 underfoot and 164, but I guess they're heavier. So I'm worried those are like my Jessie's as well.

Didn't even think about faction or surface. I looked through Line, Armada, 4frnt, on3p, and icelantic.

It sucks. We have no shops to just go to and check this stuff out at. Demo days are like for race skis. I mean we have big names like Line, Atomic, K2, Fischer etc. But like Idk. I'm stress myself out way too much. I'm sure I will make a thread about this in the next few months but yeah. It's just annoying to see sick skis and then they're too big for you haha.

Cop a pair of Edollos, you have an all mtn ski, and a pure park ski, so might as well get something playful and buttery.

They are 98 underfoot and come in a 158 and 168. I didn't realize this, but when Armada updated the Al Dente's name to Edollo, they didn't change the flex or sidecut or anything. Literally the same ski.

I've heard Chronics durability is shit

Can't even have one drink without be freakkngthe fuck out right after I tel his bff k want to marry him. Great.

safarisamCan't even have one drink without be freakkngthe fuck out right after I tel his bff k want to marry him. Great.

Lol oh man. enjoy your Friday morning