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What happened to Bear Mountain?

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ShastownSoldier
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They used to put on war of rail and were doing a ski web series. Now they only throw a snowboard competition (hot dogs and hand rails). I went on Sunday and myself and one other were the only park skiers on the mountain. It looks like the web series ended in 2015 and the last war of rails competition was in 2014. Did the skiers all wise up and move to snowier mountains?
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-Dan
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We shut it down after our season there. Go get it poppin again!
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ShastownSoldier
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-DanWe shut it down after our season there. Go get it poppin again!

You guys like bear mountain or the riders competing? Shut down War of Rails or the web series?
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eheath
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I've been trying to go to Bear every year, missed out last year and idk if I'll make it this year.

Bear is dope, they always have a really nice setup and the weather there is always nice.
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ShastownSoldier
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eheathI've been trying to go to Bear every year, missed out last year and idk if I'll make it this year.

Bear is dope, they always have a really nice setup and the weather there is always nice.


Hit me up if you go. Park skiers in socal seem to be few and far between.
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Ralphamus
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Didn’t they stop doing those comps because of skier/boarder beef? Want to say someone almost got knifed or something crazy like that

**This post was edited on Dec 18th 2019 at 9:58:05pm
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Diego2
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Mountain High - between West and East. Don't know if you can still duck the ropes without consequences, but if you go to the to of East and duck under the rope at the top (skier's left facing downhill) you can ski the ravine between east and west on powder days and ski right back to the chair - just take 15 turns, traverse to where you get 15 more, repeat, repeat, repeat then run out to the parking lot with speed to grab the chair back up. Way better than dealing with the Cali crazies on their boards.
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j_romero
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Coker couldn't get funding for WOR and it was a pretty sizable cash prize for whoever won (like $12,000 - 15,000?)

Anyways, I grew up in Big Bear and it's a heavy snowboarder culture, to begin with. My friends and I made up a total of 5 or 6 park skiers at the time who actually got after it. Every time I go back to visit there's not really anyone else who's skiing park these days which kinda sucks because it'd be cool to see some hometown young guns. It's got a bit of a comical LA crowd and usually half the people there are wasted on any given weekend so I call it jerry-dodge central

Also, it hardly snows there. If I remember correctly the winter Dan, Gibson and Vey were living there was no more than 20 inches of natural snow and the rest is usually manmade. However, the mountain does an awesome job building a sick park out of little snow. Also, it's worth mentioning it's a pretty out-of-the-way location for most of the ski community.

You'd be surprised how cheap rent can be around there, so if you're trying to coordinate a season with homies I definitely encourage it!

**This post was edited on Dec 19th 2019 at 4:53:31am
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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Just bear with it cuz
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SuckleBrick
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the dam budgets cuts killed fun events
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ShastownSoldier
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j_romeroCoker couldn't get funding for WOR and it was a pretty sizable cash prize for whoever won (like $12,000 - 15,000?)

Anyways, I grew up in Big Bear and it's a heavy snowboarder culture, to begin with. My friends and I made up a total of 5 or 6 park skiers at the time who actually got after it. Every time I go back to visit there's not really anyone else who's skiing park these days which kinda sucks because it'd be cool to see some hometown young guns. It's got a bit of a comical LA crowd and usually half the people there are wasted on any given weekend so I call it jerry-dodge central

Also, it hardly snows there. If I remember correctly the winter Dan, Gibson and Vey were living there was no more than 20 inches of natural snow and the rest is usually manmade. However, the mountain does an awesome job building a sick park out of little snow. Also, it's worth mentioning it's a pretty out-of-the-way location for most of the ski community.

You'd be surprised how cheap rent can be around there, so if you're trying to coordinate a season with homies I definitely encourage it!

**This post was edited on Dec 19th 2019 at 4:53:31am


Damn, well it would be sick to put on amateur competitions with smaller cash prizes. I'm not sure anyone in socal is even doing that. I mean there is USASA, but their comps seem to be mostly for kids.
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JoeF2661
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Kind of off topic but I was listening to a podcast with Tom wallisch and he mentioned some fight he had their with some boarders. What's the details?
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hi_vis360
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ShastownSoldierDamn, well it would be sick to put on amateur competitions with smaller cash prizes. I'm not sure anyone in socal is even doing that. I mean there is USASA, but their comps seem to be mostly for kids.


I'm pretty sure you pay USASA to let you compete and then they give you imaginary points if you win
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ShastownSoldier
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JoeF2661Kind of off topic but I was listening to a podcast with Tom wallisch and he mentioned some fight he had their with some boarders. What's the details?


It probably not a skier vs boarder thing. People in Bear just seem to want to fight. I saw a fight in the parking lot last weekend and my friend got a knife pulled on him in a bar last winter at bear. It's a weird, grungy, and kinda trashy place.
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JoeF2661
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ShastownSoldierIt probably not a skier vs boarder thing. People in Bear just seem to want to fight. I saw a fight in the parking lot last weekend and my friend got a knife pulled on him in a bar last winter at bear. It's a weird, grungy, and kinda trashy place.


So-Cal is such a shit hole. Sure this could and does happen everywhere but for real, Southern California is a cesspool.
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OCoffey
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1000000% unrelated but do you ski Shasta at all? I’m just curious because of your name
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ShastownSoldier
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OCoffey1000000% unrelated but do you ski Shasta at all? I’m just curious because of your name

I grew up there. I graduated in 2011. I haven't been back to the ski park in years.
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ShastownSoldier
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OCoffey1000000% unrelated but do you ski Shasta at all? I’m just curious because of your name

I grew up there. I graduated in 2011. I haven't been back to the ski park in years.
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OCoffey
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ShastownSoldierI grew up there. I graduated in 2011. I haven't been back to the ski park in years.


Well if your into park they have not too bad of a little pre season park. Best I’ve seen in a while for December
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