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Jemsadd hyland they’re been going crazy the last 2 years
Farmville420Carinthia puts up woodward tier parks with half the staff of a woodward park, huge huge shoutout to the boys working their goddamn asses off. Still the best parks in the US (for how much snow they have) IMO
Farmville420Still the best parks in the US (for how much snow they have) IMO
weatcoastHow come they put in short ass rails tho. I feel like every clip I see from there it’s just short rails in different configs.
isaacwrongBig claim..*perhaps on the east coast, i'd say 4-5 years ago this statement might be true but a bunch of other resorts have caught up with their parks. Loon, Killington and Loaf are all the same caliber as Carinthia, just without the isolated park feel, better vibes at all three of those imo. Yea carinthia has full top to bottom runs with features but if you're looking for some variety of all mountain skiing and park it's not the move.
FlynnnSundown Mountain is unmatched
Farmville420Carinthia puts up woodward tier parks with half the staff of a woodward park, huge huge shoutout to the boys working their goddamn asses off. Still the best parks in the US (for how much snow they have) IMO
Ginger_DrewTrollhaugen is unmatched. The level of detail and care that goes into that park is impressive. Death cookies are never a thing, the lips are hand raked to perfection, their landings and lips match the pitch of the terrain, and they normally do a full park change every 3 weeks to keep things fresh. Not to mention, they have a great base of features and are constantly working on something new.
isaacwrongBig claim..*perhaps on the east coast, i'd say 4-5 years ago this statement might be true but a bunch of other resorts have caught up with their parks. Loon, Killington and Loaf are all the same caliber as Carinthia, just without the isolated park feel, better vibes at all three of those imo. Yea carinthia has full top to bottom runs with features but if you're looking for some variety of all mountain skiing and park it's not the move.
bootspaceelm creek gotta be in here
FlynnnSundown Mountain is unmatched
Vish-shoenah
skiing elm’s rails makes skiing street seem easy, their park crew can’t build a lip that matches the rail to save their life. Also all their rails are sticky all of the time.
Vish-shoenah
skiing elm’s rails makes skiing street seem easy, their park crew can’t build a lip that matches the rail to save their life. Also all their rails are sticky all of the time.
Vish-shoeAppreciation thread for those park crews that create interesting and fun parks, and use their resources to the maximum. Two of the best in my opinion would be pine knob and trollhaugen.
coskiier1024I scrolled down this entire page and see no parks from here in Colorado. I know we have some good parks but all of you guys do have me thinking... Why don't we have dedicated rope town in our parks here out west? I would love to get better at rails and I can't stand having to always ride down to a lift just to hit the same feature. I think midwest and east coast kids have a huge leg up when it comes to that stuff.
TOAST.the real question is who has the best park builders, there the ones that make or break a park imo.
theabortionatorIt's tough. I think in the social media day you have more access to seeing more but then there are silent killers that do great work but don't post it and then people who post everything.
Ty Weed posts some pretty incredible jumps all the time. Whistler/Arena guy. Never ridden any but they look friggin perfect.
Chris Meyer gets a lot of love and some hate, but he's a solid jump builder and has a good eye for sick flow features. I'm a big fan of flow parks and bowly type stuff.
Reuben Cameron built some pretty gorgeous jumps at Thredbo. I know he's worked other places and built sick shit but that was mostly all I saw. Real good shit and has a solid thing going in the industry.
Charles Beckinsale Also never ridden any of his stuff but consistently building proper jumplines.
Matt Dunn from pine knob. Still young and already building some sick flowy parks with multiple lines. Was fun working with him at hood last summer.
Jarrod Martinez at Northstar. I was pretty impressed with what he was building even 5 years ago when he came over from Rose. He seems really dialed on the jumps these days.
Idk, hard to say. It's sort of what you see or ride. I would say this isn't necessarily a list of all the best builders more some of the best builders/people I feel inspired seeing or riding their features.
SofaKingSickis there any particular reason youre aware of that mammoth seems to have had perfect jumps on lockdown for so long, seemingly more so than anywhere else?
theabortionatorCA was kinda the birthplace for parks. Mammoth build sick ass big shit back in the day and never stopped. They get great snow and the mountain has stayed on board with the park game where other places like Northstar nerfed their parks under Vail.
They have a huge dedicated park cat/day staff crew. Some of the best builders in the world work/have worked there or June. They built some of the biggest jumps back in the day, and still do these days. I'd say the biggest public jumps in the country are generally there. Still a few mountains building beasts, and mammoth is consistently one of them.
Reuben that I mentioned build at June for years. Chris did a season or two there in recent years and built some big ass jumps.
They're park program is built around offering big shit. Mammoth was a big hub for pros back in the day and still is. They've been able to justify the resources, the jumps get ridden. Seems like the program both attracts good builders and breeds good builders.
Farmville420Carinthia puts up woodward tier parks with half the staff of a woodward park, huge huge shoutout to the boys working their goddamn asses off. Still the best parks in the US (for how much snow they have) IMO
PsychicMigrationThat’s not seemingly true last feel years but maybe 4+ ago yeah I could see it.
isaacwrongBig claim..*perhaps on the east coast, i'd say 4-5 years ago this statement might be true but a bunch of other resorts have caught up with their parks. Loon, Killington and Loaf are all the same caliber as Carinthia, just without the isolated park feel, better vibes at all three of those imo. Yea carinthia has full top to bottom runs with features but if you're looking for some variety of all mountain skiing and park it's not the move.
carsonaftonalpsif vail would let them afton would probably be the best in mn.
afton used to have 5 parks including 3 lift serviced parks one of which had huge jumps but now its only the 2 rope tows that get reset 2 times per season.
moral of story: afton used to be very good but now sucks because vail bought them and now the lift tickets raised 50 bucks.
