Replying to a sad sad day at the alyeska terrain park
saturday afternoon, i drove up to alyeska... the shadow was just moving across the bowl, and the lights were just beginning to flicker. it was raining, snowing, and windy. i drive to my cabin, put on my gear, and head up... taking up the tram, i skied down to picnic.. not a single mcjibber in sight... hmm? where could they all be? i go down to chair 7, and to my disbelief... i see an actual TERRAIN park.. with rails, jumps, and quarter pipes to boot... AND NOT A SOLE was in it? the weather had cleared, and it was a warm, pleseant night. all i see nowadays are kids throwing the ugliest, misty 10s off horseshoe, with no style, no grabs, and no landings. what has happened to the spirit, the progression of our sport? we have asked them to build us a park, and no one is even using it! it seems like the cool thing to do now is find everything wrong in every aspect of skiing, and complain... then do nothign about it. take it back to the basics, it may not be the best park in North America, but its the best its ever been at Alyeska, and its OUR park, a park we fought for... so lets GIVE them a reason to make it better... and start progressing our casms in it... and what better time then night skiing on a saturday night? im sure they wanna put more money into it when NOONE is using it!
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