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theabortionatorOh goody! I do love these gore threads. I might have to come check it out.
I wonder if anyone can get me a comp ticket. I'm not paying to ride that place. I'll ask my friends. I'm a gentleman though and will trade them beer.
But please post a picture if you have one. I need to see this.
d__hwe all did a photoshoot with their gaper photographer this past weekend, and she wanted us to all go off all 3 at the same time. we only did the 2 side ones, since we would hit each other if we did all 3 but the pic should be up soon of it. will post it when its up.
theabortionatorThis is a work of art. This has nothing to do with how many staff they have. Obviously enough staff to put in 3 pole jams in one spot, but just a design issue where they lost touch their tether to reality along the way.
d__hthe kid that said they are trying their best and doing there best and saying the features are good will not even str8 air the jumps. but we are just spoiled brats bitching about a park. like you said, they have enough people to put in this but they are just too stupid to do anything good.
theabortionatorIdk, I don't want to get in an e war between members. I can understand wanting to defend your friends.
I just know that regardless, gores parks are lollerblades. I mean the rail jam we had at west, I was the only employee. Not the only day crew guy, the only park guy. Thankfully a couple friends were able to help me move the rails because I physically couldn't even lift them by myself.
But even if we're saying they don't have the man power. They installed 3 features right there, it's easy to say that those other 2 could have been set up better. So it's less about man power budget or any other excuse, and far more about not having stupid ideas of how to set up a park.
I was really really bummed I didn't have another person or two on staff at west this year. I was looking forward to showing jore up huge. We didn't have a great park, but at times it was alright I guess, and I never set 3 pole jams on top of each other so that's a plus.
TamasHey it could be worse... it could be like willard where after i left they just dont have a park anymore... not that we really even had a park when i was building it anyways...
But anyway, thats a place that really does not care about park. They only care about racing and now their "freestlye" moguls team (which are actually way worse than any racer ive ever dealt with)
theabortionatorAs much as I've heard about the place over the years I've never been there and still know very little about it.
d__hlol there is another one to the right of it. 3 pole jams next to each other, 2 pointing towards each other.
frosted_flakesfirst run going up the gondola at Gore I laughed out loud when I saw 3 weird ass looking pole jams right in a row just pointing in slightly different directions. Also the fact that they have a flat-up box jerry rigged by having 3 flat boxes in a row end to end with the last one angled up just a little is hilarious
Mr.noodleLj, you have no reason to be arguing, even if the rails were set up right you still wouldn't hit them. I haven't seen you hit any jumps there and youre known for saying "it's too rutted" or that you "want to check it out first"
theabortionatorYeah. II don't get it. Also, at least imo, aiming 2 feature at each other is everything you don't want to do. Like putting jumps set up like an x. I guess you would generally know if another person is going to hit the other one since they're too big for most of the people who ride the park but still.
As far as the jibs for cribs one. I don't get those things and why they're in the gore park. IT could be me but they felt kind of bouncy when I 50-50'd them years ago. Also no skirting and 3 of them in a weird combo just looks sketchy imo. Not saying it can't be set up to be fun but it just doesn't look clean at all.
I really don't feel like are parks were any worse there 10 years ago,some of the stuff might have been better even, and that was a totally different game back then. Fuck, we were building jumps by hand there.
Gore definitely has a "time capsule terrain park"
Mr.noodleThere's like 10 serious park skiers at gore and I think it's safe to say that I'm the only one who has hit the bigger two cannons. I've never seen any ski tracks going on to them ever
theabortionatorGore actually kind of used to have a park scene. A small one but a fun one. I'm hoping to go this week if they're open.
But yeah, they aren't very good at building things to fit the demographic of the mt jore park skier.
psizzleGrew up skiing Gore and can say if you're driving up to Gore from the Capital Region to ride park, what is wrong with you?
I see these threads every year about how Gore's park blows blah blah blah and just shake my head. If your actually serious about progressing in the park, bite the bullet and drive your ass the extra 45 min to Whiteface. They've been putting in work on their park for the last 5 years, garnering attention through social media, hosting events, coming up with creative features/setups, as well as producing some actual sick skiers. Whereas Gore's park scene has been dead for the last 8-10 years, and I'm sorry, but no one that skis park at Gore is good.
I like to believe most of the kids in this thread are probably in highschool from the Capital Region, which probably means they never learned to actually ski the entire mountain before starting to get into the park scene, and complain about park set ups because of the one weekend they went to Carinthia for pay your age day. However, Gore (in my opinion) has arguably the best tree skiing in the Northeast, and this is coming from someone that's fortunately had the opportunity to go to UVM and ski the likes of Stowe, Sugarbush, Jay Peak, MRG, and various other mountains in New England.
True OG Gore park skiers will remember the days of Gore-E-Gully, where the park was actually serviced by a double chair, the halfpipe on Jamboree, the jump line on Upper Sleighride, when it got its first flat box (which I'm pretty sure still exists somehow), the Skitoga crew, the big air event they had at the end of every season at the bottom of the mountain, the beef between the park kids and race kids with their Karbon red jackets w/ removable sleeves (thought those were pretty tight actually), where EC Headwear and all of its sick condom beanies/designs were born before it became Eastern Collective and created aux cords for J.Crew, the Ski Bowl park, and those tiny little dark green flat bars that were the first park features Gore ever had. The list goes on.
Long story short, go to Whiteface if you want to have access to jumps and rails with proper setups and differing levels of difficulty with a seriously dedicated park crew, and got to Gore if you want to have access to some of the best glades, cliffs, and steeps, and maybe you'll even be luck enough to find a 1/4th of the hidden tree skiing and drops Gore has to offer.
Feel free to get nostalgic looking at some throwback Gore footy on my account back when I went to Shaker, or check our old "crew" vimeo page
https://vimeo.com/overshotprods
d__hgore turned down an offer from burton this season to build the stash at jore but they turned it down because "its a family mountain" fucking retards.
theabortionatoridk when gore is opening but I might be there and waste once or twice before I leave. Anyone going to be around?
I'm interested to see what kind of sketchy contraptions they'll have. Get yur tetanus shots boys!
psizzleGrew up skiing Gore and can say if you're driving up to Gore from the Capital Region to ride park, what is wrong with you?
I see these threads every year about how Gore's park blows blah blah blah and just shake my head. If your actually serious about progressing in the park, bite the bullet and drive your ass the extra 45 min to Whiteface. They've been putting in work on their park for the last 5 years, garnering attention through social media, hosting events, coming up with creative features/setups, as well as producing some actual sick skiers. Whereas Gore's park scene has been dead for the last 8-10 years, and I'm sorry, but no one that skis park at Gore is good.
I like to believe most of the kids in this thread are probably in highschool from the Capital Region, which probably means they never learned to actually ski the entire mountain before starting to get into the park scene, and complain about park set ups because of the one weekend they went to Carinthia for pay your age day. However, Gore (in my opinion) has arguably the best tree skiing in the Northeast, and this is coming from someone that's fortunately had the opportunity to go to UVM and ski the likes of Stowe, Sugarbush, Jay Peak, MRG, and various other mountains in New England.
I too grew up at Gore and learned to ski there. I agree with you that not a lot of people know how to ski very well there ESPECIALLY the park kids, like it amazes me they can make it down the mountain. I stopped getting a pass there this year but I will definitely miss some of the sweet trees for sure. What is and will always be my favorite at jore are the mineshaft glades right underneath the 2pack.
theabortionatorGore actually kind of used to have a park scene. A small one but a fun one. I'm hoping to go this week if they're open.
But yeah, they aren't very good at building things to fit the demographic of the mt jore park skier.
CahalI have been skiing gore for over 5 years and in my time there they have welded up 1 feature. I heckled the park crew the other day and told him they needed to just put in some normal downrails with the hitching post and make lips that dont have a 20 ft gap to rail. I mean yeah i can hit the features but they are imposible to progress on or do swaps on. Its very irritating and i dont think younger kids coming up in the scene can learn anything from that place.
theabortionatorI did see a new single tube rail on the side of wild air. Looked about 24 feet long. Didn't really scope it out. 3 feet high. Hopefully it will replace that shotgun rail they had of similar length.
a_burgerMy personal favourite is the "pile of jibs" while the y rail makes me wonder how much they are paying for liability insurance
a_burgerhttp://www.goremountain.com/snow-reports/terrain-park
My personal favourite is the "pile of jibs" while the y rail makes me wonder how much they are paying for liability insurance
a_burgerbump, was doing some research for work and stumbled upon this page so now everyone can enjoy how ghetto gores parks are
http://www.goremountain.com/snow-reports/terrain-park
My personal favourite is the "pile of jibs" while the y rail makes me wonder how much they are paying for liability insurance
a_burgerbump, was doing some research for work and stumbled upon this page so now everyone can enjoy how ghetto gores parks are
http://www.goremountain.com/snow-reports/terrain-park
My personal favourite is the "pile of jibs" while the y rail makes me wonder how much they are paying for liability insurance
Brule.lol I can't wait to see how shitty the park is when I come home for spring break
grilled_cheeseLets see if the snow holds up until spring break, 70% chance of steady rain all day Wednesday and highs in the 50's