When we left the park on Tuesday we didn't expect to come back to a foot of snow in the park. Its a good thing we finished painting all of the features. We should have brought our boards to do some testing.
John Hall in the middle of the road gap construction. This gap measures 45' and will have a log pole jam option next to the take off.
Andy stoked to have completed "The Plank". The Plank measures 20' long with an 18' drop off the end. Just one of the many new features you'll see in the Respect terrain park.
Hey guys,Sunday night the whole crew assembled for our annual feature planning meeting and the ideas flowed out just as fast as the beverages were gong in. Just let me say, what we came up with is sick. The steel line up has a couple of new solid additions. Our box line up we be even funner. I'm so stoked for this up coming season. The Canyons is going to be mega fun! Check back for more
Got on the hill with Steve Duke and Zach yesterday...Oh my, you guys and girls have no idea what you're getting yourselves into. Road gap off Sun Peak? Two 70ft long tree jibs? If our park doesn't TRIPLE in size this season it'll at least DOUBLE! Check out some pics of the proposed road gap and the new trail we're adding in the park!
Hey Everyone,We are getting stoked for the start of another sweet winter of pow and park riding! Stay tuned to ridecanyons.com and this blog for updates on new features, events, pictures and openings.If you have any cool ideas on features for next year, be sure to become a fan of The Canyons Terrain Parks on Facebook. Here are some new things for 2009/10:Season Passes On Sale Now: Get our best
We rolled into the park 8am powder shovels in hand. By 930 we were still shoveling out jumps boxes and rails. That sexy lady mother nature had dumped 8 inches of fluffy Utah powder. Not that this is anything new. When we need snow I say we just schedule a competition. By ten o clock I didn't know if I was at The Canyons or Alta. 30+ skiers, maybe more were tearing painted horse apart. I love when
Sunday Sunday Sunday! The weather held off till the afternoon and with the hard work of Zach, Mary-ellen and Jonny last night the top half of painted horse was completely re-done. The left side is now a Beginner style box line. The right side is also a box line but more progressive than the traditional style boxes. New features mean more raking at least for the first couple days. We stayed on top
Now that Upper and Lower Respect are just about to where we want them.(minus a few more little surprises) It was time to head back to Painted Horse, our progression park located off the saddle back express lift.With our cat supervisor Andy at home on anti biotics it was up to Jonny, Mary-ellen and Zack to revamp the top of painted horse. Zack and M.E. came up with the idea of connecting the
Sun was out for a bit this morning and I ran into my friends E-long and Parker as we were finishing up our morning raking, making the park all perfect and what not. "Hey you fella's wanna take some pics for the blog?" I said. "Dude I'll blast off that hip if you want, just see what happens" said Parker. I knew the rails and boxes were about to get some serious slide-age. I also expected Parker to
Sorry y'all been a busy week, had some more contests go down, epic pow, busy weekend (man my back is killing me). Ok ok who wants to see some pics of the BIG park. It's funny I refer to painted horse as our little park, kids are getting wicked in there. But when we talk about upper and lower respect, well put it this way. It's where all our local pros ride. So here's a couple pics I snapped
So I took a few days off and next thing I hear is man they changed the C and they added this and that askfdakjsd. I can't keep up. Here's what painted horse was like last Saturday. I'll give you another update after tomorrow or when I'm working on Friday. My buddy Eric holding my hand and pointing out how bad I am at nose pressing...C-box is back in after the hips, we added a straight box after
Even though I'm always in painted horse on the weekend I gave my radio and my rake to this 6 year old and told him to call at the first sign of trouble. Why you ask??? So I could sneak over to check out the Celtek slug magazine beat the pro comp that was going down in upper respect! Grabbed me a red bull, snapped a couple pics, got yelled at by Duke (not really he loves when I snap pics and
The Canyons annual slope style event was off the hook. The talent killed it, the course was amazeing and the crowd loved every minute of it. We saw plently of 7's, 9's and every combo of jib trick in the book go down throughout the comp. McRae had the smoothest runs of the day. The Peter bros battled it out one right after the other all day. Flaska had large tricks pop out of his bag. Andy
Stage 1:Best Rider: Jonathan Penfield University of UtahBest Skier: Geoff Balkman UVUBest Trick: Liam Wentworth Westminster CollegeStage 2:Best Rider: Graham Banks Westminster CollegeBest Skier: Jack Stauss Westminster CollegeBest