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bagofbeansThey actually only bought one new triple and split it into two areas but it is fast and that is what they needed. Also don't hate on west
Big_MtnI've never seen a fast triple...
Mr.noodleActually west mountain bought a lot of new lights, replaced all the water pipes for the snow makers and a lot of snow making equipment before last season and has been slowly upgading everything for a few years so them buying new stuff isn't a rare occurrence. Also who are you? I ski there a lot so I might know you
bagofbeansThey actually only bought one new triple and split it into two areas but it is fast and that is what they needed. Also don't hate on west
skipoint0Queensbury high school?
Mr.noodlei go to Saratoga spring high school
skipoint0Queensbury high school?
Brule.Oh shit I go there too.
N.L.this is heartbreaking.... that old slow double in the dark.... pretty sure that was my first kiss. and 360 in one run!!!
theabortionatorhttps://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/A-Piece-History-West-Mountain
^ read that, it's amusing imo.
When I saw they were getting a new lift I was stoked. Went over there and talked to them about their parks before I moved to colorado but their budget in that area was pretty ridiculous.
I worked there for 3 seasons from 08-11. Was a shame mike fucked everything up, we all left and the park took a huge dive.
That could easily be the best park in the region. It's easy access(super close to the I87, night skiing, close to qbury/gfalls, and toga. There are kids out there 5 or 6 days a week shredding. When I went there in dec there were a ton of younger kids on twin tips rolling around in packs hitting some of the cut ups and what not but no park open for them.
If that place put a few k together for a budget for new features, and keeping 2 park employees on EVERY day, they could be the best park in the region.
Probably going to email them over the summer. At this point not something I would want to do for a few years as I have other stuff going on now but I would love a chance to make that park sick at some point.
For me the hardest thing is getting the people out and west has the people. You could throw a mediocre contest, with no hype in advance, $20+ entry with meh prizes, no notice, and still get 25+ people out.
I understand that they have a lot of improvements to make and they need to watch their spending, but a good park would MAKE them money. A season pass their is like $500. A really legit park would sell at least 6 passes. That would pay for all the new rails. The day lift ticket sales would be enough to pay for the park employees. That place should be crushing it in the park game.
Hoping to work something out where in 2 or 3 years I can do a few seasons their and pimp out their park. Who knows, maybe they'll do it on their own, but I doubt it. The kids want a good park, build that shit west.
/too many words.
Not sure why but I'm attached to that place, the people, the community, etc. Even after that place dicked us all around under the old management. Maybe some day.
theabortionatorhttps://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/A-Piece-History-West-Mountain
^ read that, it's amusing imo.
When I saw they were getting a new lift I was stoked. Went over there and talked to them about their parks before I moved to colorado but their budget in that area was pretty ridiculous.
I worked there for 3 seasons from 08-11. Was a shame mike fucked everything up, we all left and the park took a huge dive.
That could easily be the best park in the region. It's easy access(super close to the I87, night skiing, close to qbury/gfalls, and toga. There are kids out there 5 or 6 days a week shredding. When I went there in dec there were a ton of younger kids on twin tips rolling around in packs hitting some of the cut ups and what not but no park open for them.
If that place put a few k together for a budget for new features, and keeping 2 park employees on EVERY day, they could be the best park in the region.
Probably going to email them over the summer. At this point not something I would want to do for a few years as I have other stuff going on now but I would love a chance to make that park sick at some point.
For me the hardest thing is getting the people out and west has the people. You could throw a mediocre contest, with no hype in advance, $20+ entry with meh prizes, no notice, and still get 25+ people out.
I understand that they have a lot of improvements to make and they need to watch their spending, but a good park would MAKE them money. A season pass their is like $500. A really legit park would sell at least 6 passes. That would pay for all the new rails. The day lift ticket sales would be enough to pay for the park employees. That place should be crushing it in the park game.
Hoping to work something out where in 2 or 3 years I can do a few seasons their and pimp out their park. Who knows, maybe they'll do it on their own, but I doubt it. The kids want a good park, build that shit west.
/too many words.
Not sure why but I'm attached to that place, the people, the community, etc. Even after that place dicked us all around under the old management. Maybe some day.
N.L.this is heartbreaking.... that old slow double in the dark.... pretty sure that was my first kiss. and 360 in one run!!!
skipoint0name?
theabortionatorhttps://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/A-Piece-History-West-Mountain
^ read that, it's amusing imo.
When I saw they were getting a new lift I was stoked. Went over there and talked to them about their parks before I moved to colorado but their budget in that area was pretty ridiculous.
I worked there for 3 seasons from 08-11. Was a shame mike fucked everything up, we all left and the park took a huge dive.
That could easily be the best park in the region. It's easy access(super close to the I87, night skiing, close to qbury/gfalls, and toga. There are kids out there 5 or 6 days a week shredding. When I went there in dec there were a ton of younger kids on twin tips rolling around in packs hitting some of the cut ups and what not but no park open for them.
If that place put a few k together for a budget for new features, and keeping 2 park employees on EVERY day, they could be the best park in the region.
Probably going to email them over the summer. At this point not something I would want to do for a few years as I have other stuff going on now but I would love a chance to make that park sick at some point.
For me the hardest thing is getting the people out and west has the people. You could throw a mediocre contest, with no hype in advance, $20+ entry with meh prizes, no notice, and still get 25+ people out.
I understand that they have a lot of improvements to make and they need to watch their spending, but a good park would MAKE them money. A season pass their is like $500. A really legit park would sell at least 6 passes. That would pay for all the new rails. The day lift ticket sales would be enough to pay for the park employees. That place should be crushing it in the park game.
Hoping to work something out where in 2 or 3 years I can do a few seasons their and pimp out their park. Who knows, maybe they'll do it on their own, but I doubt it. The kids want a good park, build that shit west.
/too many words.
Not sure why but I'm attached to that place, the people, the community, etc. Even after that place dicked us all around under the old management. Maybe some day.
Brule.I'm not giving a name, all I have to say is that I'm a junior there. Other than that, I'm not saying shit lol.
I had a couple of friends work for the park at West for the past two years (it started when Barbone left lol), the first year of those two KEVTRON was the head park ranger. This was when the management at West liked their ideas for the park, they had two rail jams that were good and one of them was at least the annual Hometown Hero rail jam.
This past winter, however, there wasn't a legitimate manager for the park crew, they just worked for Spencer (the "new" owner of West) and divided their schedule evenly, and the management had some fucked up ideas, like the whole AcroBag event and how they wanted to launch people tubing off a jump into the airbag. I sessioned it the first night and I witnessed one of the employees get really butthurt at the Acrobag people because they had to patch up a hole in the bag after someone accidentally sliced their ski edge into the bag. Long story short it was fucked. In the end, the management had major doubts in the park even though the park was a good one to jump around in. All the management cared about was that the mountain was earning some money and that they were still being endorsed by a local Chevy dealership.
Mr.noodleThey have one nice rail jam every year where kids throw down pretty good but with a few more they could make a lot of money. On3p actually had a demo day there one day which was sick even though i couldnt even demo a pair but they are definitly getting into the groove and improving their parks. The jumps and rails 2 years ago were wack but they put a lot more work into parks this year which was cool
Brule.I'm not giving a name, all I have to say is that I'm a junior there. Other than that, I'm not saying shit lol.
I had a couple of friends work for the park at West for the past two years (it started when Barbone left lol), the first year of those two KEVTRON was the head park ranger. This was when the management at West liked their ideas for the park, they had two rail jams that were good and one of them was at least the annual Hometown Hero rail jam.
This past winter, however, there wasn't a legitimate manager for the park crew, they just worked for Spencer (the "new" owner of West) and divided their schedule evenly, and the management had some fucked up ideas, like the whole AcroBag event and how they wanted to launch people tubing off a jump into the airbag. I sessioned it the first night and I witnessed one of the employees get really butthurt at the Acrobag people because they had to patch up a hole in the bag after someone accidentally sliced their ski edge into the bag. Long story short it was fucked. In the end, the management had major doubts in the park even though the park was a good one to jump around in. All the management cared about was that the mountain was earning some money and that they were still being endorsed by a local Chevy dealership.
theabortionatorIdk man, I didn't see what they built this year but I would still guess 2009-11 was the best of the parks at west by far. Came up quick and died fast. I went in the spring the season before last, not even super late spring and the park had no jump, 4 features in (that weren't setup bad other than the one falling over) but they were horizontal so you could only hit one each lap which was a bummer.
Strange.Journey.howdy from the dude who has spent the last 4 days helping to take down the old lift at haystack that is going to west mt! west is getting a sky trac poma triple chairlift from both sugarbush and haystack from what i know. they are taking the towers and terminals from haystack and the bottom terminal as well as some of the towers (maybe) from sugarbush. they are going to take these two lifts and combining them to make two new lifts at west. note: the triple from haystack was notoriously slow and cold. sorry
theabortionatorHere's some shot from a couple laps spring 2010/11
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/772662/West-Mountain--SUCKS-
Had some pretty good flow
Had a pretty bigjump the one year. The landing sucked but it was around a 10' tall step down.
Found this pic of my car in the lot at west. Doesn't fit but I thought it was funny
I had some decent pics at the park at west but I don't know where they're at. Maybe on my desktop here.
A 2 jump line of 25-35 with a his and hers, maybe 4 new tube rails, a couple new boxes, a few other rails, a nice side by side setup the whole way down the face to go with that, some smaller stuff with a smaller jump or two on the side, a wood park that starts with 3 log rails a few jibs and grows every year, and a beginner park with some real small stuff for learning and teaching.
With that, plus building something really cool/weird once or twice a year would really get that place going and make that a hub. Right now most of the region drives all the way to mount snow to hit a good park. West could have something that's cheap, and while much smaller, comparable in quality.
I don't think it'd be that hard to do. And the result would be awesome. That place is kind of like those towns with a ton of kids skating around together, but no skatepark. You build the park and give everyone a place to shred together, bring some people from out of the region as well and it would be fucking sick.
I'll keep planning it all in my head and probably never do anything there again. In spite of all the bullshit there had a good time the 3 seasons I worked there, maybe a 4th or 5th in my future? idk
bagofbeansThat looks sick for west! I ski there almost every night and one of my friends is on the park crew. No effort is but into improving it and almost all they care about is ski racing. if there was a good park at west like that they would easily make there money back.
theabortionatorFire on the mountain is great lol. Def a shitshow but a good one.
What are you doing at mount jore? I wonder if I even know anyone that skis there anymore. It's been a couple years for me.
Stoked west is getting some new chair action at least. Honestly with that old triple I was thankful every time I got to the top and didn't fall to my death.
Who are your friends on the park crew? I think I know a couple people working there.
Hopefully they decide to chuck some money into the park program there though. The amount of kids there shredding and people trying to get into the park is pretty crazy considering how small the mountain is. They need a good park bad
Brule.I'm working at Mount Jore as an instructor. A lot of people were new here this past winter, including myself. They're still expanding skiing acreage for the most part by including more glades, although the pow days have been occurring during school weeks.
I'd rather not list names in an open thread of who I know that is a part of the West park crew.
I remember during the midweek for ski team practices riding up the northwest triple was sketchy because it was pitch black and the lights from Mach barely reached the lift. I'm glad that lift is getting replaced.
I hope that more money is poured into funding the park at West because all that's been done is put on some steel skirting on the DFD and they re-painted the rails blue and purple. Judging from skiing at night there when they have the school groups come, at least a good chunk of them end up lapping the park. With west, the features are built well at first then a couple of days later they turn to shit due to poor grooming of jumps.
People like to go in the park at West and some of the people that go in the park don't know what they're doing because they ignore the safety sign at the top and think that they're invincible. What's important is park safety, and it seems like the management at West is holding back on funding the park because gapers get hurt in the park because they ignore the signs at the top of the park.
theabortionatorWas just over there yesterday. Walked around a bit. New lift is looking good. Moving to the center frees up the left side for the park. Still pretty tight but much better than before without pushing as far over as it used to. That side is graded out and ready for seed. The ditch under the lift line is gone as are the power lines running up the side, nice and clean.
Was nice to be over there and nostalgia a bit.
Brule.I never really noticed much of a ditch since they put in a boardercross course linking from frolic to the middle of the park. It was sketchy, but it was fun as hell.
theabortionatormaybe a 4th or 5th in my future? idk
theabortionatorSo I guess that's happening.
New tube rails coming. Not sure how many but going to build what I can build with the old towers.
Might throw in some wood features somewhere as well.
Biggest thing is doing a small beginner park that's separate from the main park. Something with those small boxes and rails as well as maybe a new feature.
Hoping to be rocking 3 parks for the season, and going to try to have them all lighted. The normal park on the face will be there and obviously that's already lighted.
I'll post some pictures once I get building things.
theabortionatorThey're investing in the park which is a good thing. I think they see that it's something people want, and even though they may not really understand it all, they seem willing to give it a proper shot.
Hopefully if things go well this season, the kids will be happy, they'll be happy, and it will leave the door open to more stuff in the future.
They're giving me dibs on the old lift towers for some new features. Even though I probably won't be purchasing any other material other than topsheets for the boxes, and maybe some skirting, we should be able to get a few new features for the season.
Also they seem open to me taking up extra real estate. At the moment it seems like I have the go ahead to build 2 parks next to each other near the base area as well as another small park half way up the hill on the edge of the frolic. Hoping to have lights on all those spots.
Honestly if I could build even 4 new tube rails, fix some stuff up, get those 3 parks, get the lights for the other 2, and set things up legit, we should have a pretty proper park.
I don't think I'm going to go that big on jumps this year. If there's room I'm open to it but shooting for more jumps that are built nice and proper. Probably won't see anything over 30' this year for booters.
Going to focus on the rail game this year, and just getting some smaller jumps dialed.
Hoping the end result will be the legit park that west always could have had, but never got.
Mr.noodleThat sounds sick, I think this is the most excited I've ever been about west; and by the sound of it it seems like the park at west could possibly be better than gores? Maybe not jump wise but gores jumps were wack anyway
theabortionatorYeah that's my goal. West will be ahead of Gore in the jib game. If everything goes well with these towers, and other things work out, it will hopefully be wayyy ahead.
Gore has built some good jumps before. In 2009/10 the jump at the bottom of lower sleighride was proper. Might have only been like 25'/30' but it had a nice take off and landing and road smooth.
Look for everything to be properly built and well maintained. My goal is for everything to be set up in a functional way, have some creative things thrown in, and have everything fairly immaculate.
If you're in the area and bored, grab your skis and take a gander.
theabortionatorYeah that's my goal. West will be ahead of Gore in the jib game. If everything goes well with these towers, and other things work out, it will hopefully be wayyy ahead.
Gore has built some good jumps before. In 2009/10 the jump at the bottom of lower sleighride was proper. Might have only been like 25'/30' but it had a nice take off and landing and road smooth.
Look for everything to be properly built and well maintained. My goal is for everything to be set up in a functional way, have some creative things thrown in, and have everything fairly immaculate.
If you're in the area and bored, grab your skis and take a gander.
Mr.noodleI'm hypedddd how often wil you be working there? And we gotta take some laps
-benedetto(get them to have snoe.down there haha)