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PLEASE READ IMPORTANT: RCR RESORTS = TERMINATING PARK PROGRAM

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edmonton_skier
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Thursday, November 08, 2007

RESORTS OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES FOCUSES ON TERRAIN PARK SAFETY WITH AN INDUSTRY-LEADING INITIATIVE

RCR cares deeply about the well-being of all of its guests and takes responsibility for their care very seriously. “We are undertaking an industry-leading initiative,” says Matt Mosteller, Senior Director of Business Development for Resorts of the Canadian Rockies. “All man-made snow jumps will be eliminated from RCR terrain parks this season.”




I sincerely hope that whoever filed the lawsuit that caused this is paralized from the neck down and is in horrible pain

6 fucking world class resorts across canada with amazing parks now have NOTHING for  parks...  there is not ONE park ANYWHERE NEAR US.... is the the EXACT equivilent  of every resort in colorado terminating the park program if you lived there or the same in utah if you lived there...how much would that suck for you guys

If you read this SIGN the RCR petition thread because you knows how much it sucks not to have a single park within a 700 mile radius of you.....

Idiots who hurt themselves ruin it for everyone...




                                                               SIGN THE PETITION

Nov 9 2007 2:05AM
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Yauch
Posts: 1685 - Karma: 62
hey fuck you, everybody on this website is serious
Nov 14 2007 12:15AM
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kristie
Posts: 1667 - Karma: 214
It's because insurance prices keep going up for resorts that have jumps, especially after that lawsuit in Washington.
Nov 14 2007 12:29AM
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Yauch
Posts: 1685 - Karma: 62
what do you care you never hit jumps anyways
Nov 14 2007 12:46AM
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constpapa
Posts: 835 - Karma: 327
Honestly, FUCK the people who filed the lawsuit. I don't give two shits about their side of the story...just because you had bad luck it doesn't mean you can fuck an entire culture over.

Nov 14 2007 1:18AM
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edmonton_skier
Posts: 3210 - Karma: 110
ya guy completely.... no sarcasm or extreem over-exageration on this site...
Nov 14 2007 1:48AM
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DietCoke
Posts: 1317 - Karma: 7
HOLY SHIT THIS GUY HAS THE SAME NAME AS ME!?!?!   im serious like, my names matt mosteller too, and this guy who is killing my sport is giving it a bad rap.  he had better change it.  no joke.  im pissed.  gahhh why would he take my name like this?1?!?
seriously if you dont believe me....
FACEBOOK ME JEA! 
http://www.facebook.com/srch.php?nm=matt+mosteller  (im the one with the b&w pic.  maryland 2010 whatup! 
Nov 14 2007 2:43AM
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molsongolden
Posts: 1649 - Karma: 162
"I sincerely hope that whoever filed the lawsuit that caused this is paralized from the neck down and is in horrible pain"

i can't believe this got stickied with that line in there. 

and a boycott of rcr resorts would be much more effective than a petition.

just dont go to any of the resorts that got rid of jumps, tell your friends not to ride there, tell your mom not to ride there. 

once they see a significant drop in lift ticket sales and realize they are losing money and customers to resorts with jumps they will figure out a way to bring jumps bank 


Nov 14 2007 2:47AM
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3ski6guy0
Posts: 9201 - Karma: 132
FUCK THAT MOTHER CUKER!!!!! IMA KILL DAT ITCH TOMORROW ROCK ON PARKS!!
Nov 14 2007 3:21AM
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ajax
Posts: 2850 - Karma: 1,236
signed that, Fernie is (was) the shiat
Nov 14 2007 3:31AM
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corbenketelsen
Posts: 254 - Karma: 10
its cus liberal ass canada is full of litigation., its causin big problems. canada would be coool if they didnt have to take so many procautions and shit cuz of litifuckengation. im from wasington but am in cali right now and to tell you the truth, alpine is just about to go the same route and eveutuallyAmerica will be fucked bigtime to. So the moral of the story kids is....


QUIT IT WITH THE LIBERAL SHIT. GLOBAL WARMING AND FUCKING PEOPLE IN COURT AINT WORTH IT. especially over breaking a neck or two. tough that shit out pussy.
Nov 14 2007 4:57AM
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Wrkn4ThaWeekend
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kelly shaheen
Nov 14 2007 9:25AM
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simmers
Posts: 1004 - Karma: 397
Sarcasm? Fine. But the tone of the rest of the post was not at all sarcastic, so sarcasm is not obvious in that line. Moreover, "I hope that guy is paralyzed from the neck down," is just something you don't say. Serious or not.
Nov 14 2007 11:04AM
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schmies
Posts: 2032 - Karma: 505
Agreed. That was a stupid fucking comment. 
Nov 14 2007 1:12PM
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waynewong
Posts: 1359 - Karma: 23
...What a pathetic cop out for RCR, this was the easy way out for them. I can imagine the meeting that took place, cue wane's world dream music......


Setting - Large 30th floor corporate office in some major city. A long oval table is surrounded by a dozen or so suited men with imprtant looking papers and associated folders.

A digital projector displays a power point slide showing a hockey stick shaped graph of skier injuries and subsequental law suits (think Al Gore's charts but replace CO2 with injured skier)

Suited man #1 - blah blah blah paralyzed blha blah lawsuit blah blah 20 million dollars

Rest of men - hruumph uh oh

small suited man in corner - Why do we have jumps anyway
Rest of group opens conversation

"they cost too much to build"
"only kids and snowboarders use them"
Costs too much to maintain
Parents are always complaining that they are not welcome in the park
Gangsters hang out in the park and scare people

so the conversation continues....

:But why do have parks at all...we did survive for many years without them

lets just get rid of them and sell some condos




And so it is...terrain parks go the way of the dinosaur and new condos are built right where your secret parking spot next to the lodge was.

shitty day in Canada
Nov 14 2007 2:42PM
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lunchmeat
Posts: 922 - Karma: 227
wow the kimberley park is now the rail park. i thought they changed their minds. i realy want to move. so many jumps will be built around the hill though
Nov 14 2007 3:27PM
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Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
Indeed... yes, mmmhmmmm, the future is in atomic carving skis...!
Nov 14 2007 4:36PM
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bemmis
Posts: 1602 - Karma: -3
this is mine. i dont live around there but i said i did to make it more convincing:

Hello. I am a skier at one of your mountains that has recently heard the news of the abscence of park fetures this year.      Let me tell you, I love to ski more than anyhting on this earth and the thaught of not doing the thing i love makes me more sad than you can imagine.       Ever since I can remember, I come back when the new season begins and cannot keep the smile off my face. the first thing I do is refresh all my tricks on the jumps and I can not imagine not being able to do that anymore.      My point is, that by not having a park, you are potentially ruining the lives of hundreds, or even thousands of individuals who love skiing more than life itself. By dismembering the hills of their parks you gain nothing, and will more likely even lose a significant amount of buisiness, by the snowboarding community too. However, what you producing is an overwhelming sadness of all the skiers and snowboarders who dreams and hapiness are now extingished. Sure, you may gain a bit of peace of mind by doing this, but in my opinion, the livelyhoods of hundreds to thousands outweighs that overwhelmingly.      It may sound to you as if I'm off my rocker and that park skiing actually doesn't matter all that much. But when you love skiing as much as I do, skiing without a park is like skiing on wet astroturf for all who this implementation effects. Do the right thing. 
Nov 14 2007 7:00PM
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Jake...
Posts: 11976 - Karma: 296
business can be defined in one word. Money.
Nov 14 2007 7:44PM
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australianjibber
Posts: 530 - Karma: -22
good work there mate.
i have really disliked sunshine in the past, and have thought it as half the mountain louise is, but after all this....i will be spending a lot more time at the shine!
Nov 14 2007 7:50PM
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mathers
Posts: 1865 - Karma: 490
i can't wait until they build amazing parks the following season after realizing that they now have twice the liability from dumb ass kids trying to build their own two foot wide, backflip slinger features outside of the park.
Nov 14 2007 8:00PM
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bcboy_18
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No. insurance costs are directly correlated to liability, and to a greater or lesser extent a resort is liable for  what takes place on their hill. A personal injury lawsuit is quite often related to negligence, and in our case the defendant would be RCR. Unauthorized jumps are a liability and therefore a concern for those in charge because someone who "accidentally" hit one of these jumps could claim that a resort was negligent in not ensuring that the runs are free of obstacles.
So,  if anything, terrain parks  have come to existence at least in part  to provide  a contained  and  authorized place  to  jump,  and if properly built should  actually  reduce the chances  of  such lawsuits. thats how i would read that situation anyways.
Nov 14 2007 9:47PM
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Lofe
Posts: 239 - Karma: 164
What a bunch of p*ssies up there in Canada running those resorts.

Removing jumps isn't moral. Its stupid. The "moral" thing to do would be to implement a park pass program, like what they have at Stratton and Mammoth.

And they're still keeping rails? All rails and no jumps? For safety? Sounds like Brighton.

I signed the petition.
Nov 14 2007 9:51PM
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ljs
Posts: 501 - Karma: 1,181

They realesed this the day after you could get a full refund for your pass.

Nov 14 2007 10:53PM
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Pipe_Munky
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i don't really see myself as being negative. i'm seeing things clearly and realistically.

whether this is a business decision or not, people need to realize that any decision made by the resort is going to stand.

by all means go ahead and try. i would love to see RCR reverse this decision but with people posting a person's email all over these message boards, there will undoubtedly be ignorant comments made towards this person via email and phone. if i was in his place, all i would think is "why should i care?"

all the advice i would offer is that everyone tread lightly.




Nov 14 2007 10:57PM
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molsongolden
Posts: 1649 - Karma: 162
resorts are in the business to make money not to progress the sport 
nomensteve is right, they arent goign to give a shit about your bitching or your petitioning unless they see a financial reason to bring back jumps. boycott that shit and get your family and your friends family to also. park skiers/boarders make up a small percentage of riders at a mountain so youll have to get everyone you know in on the boycott 
Nov 14 2007 11:45PM
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PeteyG
Posts: 2946 - Karma: 49
Someone with authority:

What is the status of this whole campaign?
How many sigs are on the petitions floating around the site?
Any news on the RCR resorts?

would be good to know since we are pushing against this cause
Nov 15 2007 12:10AM
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Tze.C
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there always has to be one to ruin it for everyone else. sucks
Nov 15 2007 12:24AM
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IcePointa
Posts: 1879 - Karma: 19
Wow, don't they realize this is only going to result in people attempting stupid things on groomers, side trails, and every handrail in those resorts?? God, people need to be liable for themselves when they go skiing.
Nov 15 2007 2:04AM
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bc_junkie
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i was so pissed when i found out about this. its a good think that sunshine has been stepping their park up over the past 2 or 3 seasons. and that leaves us with just good old C.O.P
Nov 15 2007 3:13AM
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H4RV0L3V
Posts: 116 - Karma: 11
Consider this my signature!! Wear a lid, don't jump if you're a little bitch! It's fun because it's dangerous, so don't take the fun away because without risk there is no life!!
Nov 15 2007 9:09AM
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JibEarth
Posts: 753 - Karma: 26
this thread is taking a wrong turn, we need to keep it formal with actaully intellegent responces not jsut hating on the paralized kid. IF it stays intellegent then this thread could be used as a voice of the ppl jsut send the link in an email to the RCR rep. But they will disregard it if its all typical NS hate.
Nov 15 2007 10:10AM
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dinglenuts
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I hate to be a downer but RCR won't budge on this one.  They didn't buy any insurance for jumps so they won't be making them...period!!!!

Nov 15 2007 11:12AM
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STAUSS
Posts: 8232 - Karma: 3,311
soo weak.. that is one of the most anti- fun things ive ever read.  burn those mothers down.
Nov 15 2007 12:45PM
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Typical
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hahaha yea but those park passes were a joke, they really didn't regulate the traffic flow.

I think they should require the removal of your equipment (ex. to walk up stairs) to enter a park.

Petition Signed... we need to increase the signatures on that thing.  Lets go guys...



Petition Web Adress:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/next/518294162/572101068
Nov 15 2007 1:15PM
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Reptar.
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signed it. and i told my mom on them.
Nov 15 2007 5:09PM
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I-Ski-AK
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what resorts exactly are in the RCR? Whistler isnt is it?
Nov 15 2007 7:11PM
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east_toast
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That sucks that one stupid kid messed it up for everyone who lives around those mountians
Nov 15 2007 7:21PM
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wils.
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Stoneham
mont st anne
and many others
Nov 15 2007 8:33PM
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wils.
Posts: 2012 - Karma: 48
Lake Louise Fernie  Kimberley Nakiska Mont-Sainte-Anne Stoneham
Nov 15 2007 8:34PM
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Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
Ugh, end this thread already.
Just boycott, get your money back for your passes  and go somewhere else, or stop bitching about something youre not going to do something about.

seriously dont fall for this shit. Your jibs are next.... RCR isnt thinking straight. BOYCOTT!
Nov 15 2007 9:20PM
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jeremy.g
Posts: 4931 - Karma: 459
how the fuck can they progress skiing if they have no park? them saying its industry leading is the most bullshit ive ever heard. it soooooo ridicoulous
Nov 15 2007 10:56PM
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liftedresearcher
Posts: 1140 - Karma: 1,774
well all the RCR resorts website have changed the telus park link on their site to RCR rail park. did telus drop its sponsorship?
Nov 16 2007 12:51AM
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squibble
Posts: 4569 - Karma: 104
i should fly to matt molesters house and kick him in the balls. + send the rory bkdlffdjk thing to the media. i hate people like him. we should call him mom and complain that her son is a douchebag
Nov 16 2007 2:08AM
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nigel12
Posts: 571 - Karma: 11
i bought an rcr super pass and used it twice before i found out about this
so today in the paper there is an article and the rcr is giving a refund to whoever is upset by the policy
i paid early bird price and that was 700 i want to get my refund at the non early bird price because now i have to buy a new pass which i wont be able to get at an early bird price im going this weekend and ill let you guys now how i make out
this really sucks it lame excuse to not have to pay incsurance on big features to make money
there is no way im keeping my pass even if i dont get full refun ill take my money somewhere else
this is bs
Nov 16 2007 12:19PM
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SmoKinSkier
Posts: 5501 - Karma: 20
I agree they wont budge....but that doesnt mean we cant punish them by everyone boycotting their resorts!!!


I know im not goin there again this year now!!
Nov 16 2007 8:37PM
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1080ski
Posts: 4424 - Karma: 191
Signed the petition, emailed the guy with a well thought out email, and anything else i can do i will try to.

this is so shitty though, this is the one time i can say im happy to live on EC of US
Nov 16 2007 9:23PM
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+public_ennemy+
Posts: 267 - Karma: 46
what does fuckin RCR means or do??!!
Nov 16 2007 9:51PM
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chillonhill
Posts: 1314 - Karma: 125
or  Really Crappy Rails
or Really Cunt Resort
just my 2cents,
Nov 17 2007 7:20PM
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skierboy1985
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or Rip off the Canadian Rockies



Receive a Sunshine Village Ski Resort season pass at the September 2007 sales price.

Timeline: From Monday November 19 to Saturday December 1-2007.

Must answer the following question: What is the full name of the Terrain Park at Sunshine Village.

To purchase the pass: 1- Send your answer and full mailing address, age, pass type and phone # to comments@skibanff.com we will call you back for payment information.

Or purchase your pass at our Banff Mountain Guest Service location only
Nov 17 2007 10:59PM
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nigel12
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so i can take advantage of this oportunity betweeen the 19th of nov and the 1st of december or does it have to be done before the 19th
Nov 18 2007 12:43AM
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