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[KZ]

wow, thats quite impressive

[Kicking Horse]

i'll post some pics of it

[Kicking Horse]

here u go

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[Kicking Horse]

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[edmontonguy]

last year rabbit hill put in a handle tow for their park. this was economical as the tow was relatively cheap and the park only covers half of the hill's vertical while all other lifts serve the entire vertical of the hill. it in turn cuts down on traffic on the near by t-bars. This may not be an idea that most resorts would follow as it is a relatively compact park

[liftmech]

We've got a Staedeli handle tow sitting in the boneyard right now. There has been talk of putting it up alongside the Superpipe, but nothing further than talk. The lift that used to serve the park area (old G-lift) was 4500' long, so I don't think a handle tow would suffice for the entire park.

A shot from an exhibition we had a month or so ago.

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[KZ]

That must get kinda icy inside it. Cool stuff

[Kicking Horse]

noppers. no ice

[liftmech]

Yeah, the cats push snow into the culvert in order to keep a good skiing surface. It's kind of neat, skiing through a tunnel.

[KZ]

Yep, that is cool. I like that setup above.

[pyrotechnik]

snoqualmie gets my vote. they got 4 terrain parks(2 for the little kids and 2 for the big kids). one of them is split into 2 sides. the left side features 3-4 HUGE kickers, and the other side has the normal stuff(kickers, rails, spines, etc). another park there goes from top to bottom and has a huge selection of, well, everything.

[snowboardguy]

Mountain High in Socal has a nice design. They have 2 mountains and one is all park. Mostly because 80 percent of the riders are snowboarders. They have a lot of stuff for every level. There othere mountain is wide open for crusing and such.

[KZ]

Yea, but east was open for like a week and a half this year. Best park has to be Mammoth, its perfect. They have a small park at canyon lodge with a regular 9' halfpipe, then the middle park (South Park) is medium and is really 3 runs. One has 5 jump/rails alternating, then a vertwall at the bottom, a full jib run, and then a boardercross type of deal. Then the main park (Unbound Main) is just huge. Superpipe, Super-Duper Pipe, loads of jumps and rails, its insane. Its so fun because regardless your skill you can find something your size, and its easy to work up, not just little, meduim, small, they have everything.

[snowboardguy]

What I don't like about Mammoth's parks is they don't change too much throughout the season.

[Allan]

It takes a lot of man hours to change a park - if it's possible. Some parks are built in the summer with dirt.

[liftmech]

Mammoth has one of the premiere parks on the continent, except for maybe the Catskinner park at Blackcomb. When I was at Baker our grooming supervisor went to Mammoth for a week to groom with and learn from their park crew before we began building ours. Copper's park crew also spent a few days there two or three years ago, and it seems to have improved our park.

Snowboardguy- what do you mean the park doesn't change much? Are you referring to the adding/subtracting of rails or changing the features on a regular basis? As Allan mentioned, it takes huge amounts of man-hours (not to mention machine hours as well) to do that... I don't frequent parks that much so I don't know how often they are supposed to change.

[KZ]

Well at a place like Mt High, its a lot easier to remodel the park because they dont have such large piles of snow for the jumps. They can easily move around the rails and boxes, so the lines are always changing. A place like mammoth probably sets it all up, and won't really change much really becasue the don't need to. With all the variety, why spend extra money rebuilding a jump every week. With the quality of the grooming and consistency as well, its hard to beat. The Unbound Crew (the ones who build it all) are amazing. You can also see their work up at June, and that can be even nicer. They have the only pipe i've seen with "coping" built in.

John, I was looking at copper's site, and the park over there looks pretty nice. Not quite as big as some of them over here, but its pretty simple, and has some nice variety. It also isnt as big as some others, but its still nice.

[Allan]

It's going to be nice to see how ours turns out, it's being desinged by the same guy who does the RCR parks (Lake Louise, Kimberly, Fernie, etc...)

[KZ]

Lake Louise has a good park, top 4 or 5 since it hoasted superpark this year.

[snowboardguy]

It's like you go to mammoth in November and ride the park and then go in April and it's set up almost identical. Rails and Boxes can be moved and changed easily. And the same line of jumps gets old fast.