Replying to FWT terrain sucks
I don't understand a lot of the terrain choices, especially Hakuba which always seems boring. There's so much emphasis on dropping cliffs and freestyle tricks, but good trick-able natural features seem really few and far between, and most of them seem to have super flat landings. I get the argument that the best freeriders are the ones who can somehow figure out how to find a great line in sketchy terrain. On the other hand, you see almost everybody in places like Hakuba skiing short runs down relatively modest vertical and getting totally fucked up by all the flat landings. Meanwhile the commenters talk endlessly about how the conditions are bad and everyone is back-slapping their hucks and I just keep thinking, hasn't it occurred to anyone to move the comp to another mountain where people can actually compete on doing really rad shit instead of spending all their energy trying to not get wrecked?
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