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New Run at Marble Mountain
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I was at Marble for the 'open house' and gear swap today, and I also took a look at the new run that has been cut. It starts on the cross cut at the bottom of Autobahn, merges briefly with Hoh Chi Minh, then cuts into the woods to the skiers' left and underneath the Black Mariah chair, then turns to skiers' right and ends in the woods between the Black Mariah and the run 'Old Sam'. The slope is pretty gentle, I'd say around 20-25 degrees for most of it, so it will most likely be a blue square, which Marble's website concurs with. I couldn't take any pictures because the camera batteries were dead. Right now the run consists of mud and rocks with a John Deere excavator near the bottom. Topographical changes to the terrain park have not yet been begun, if they are going to occur at all.
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corkscrew is by far the most fun run at marble....10 minutes of banked turns.....and phenomenal fall line skiing. ive always said marble knows how to cut runs...that's one thing they do right!!!
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I hope they up the ante on there park this year i hate the ridiculous steepness of there park now i hope they find a new place.
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ahha have you ever skiied corkscrew switch its sooo fun when theres no ice. And that roll at the very beginning just as you leave the chair down in corkscrew boosting off that is unreal
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yeah man...thats absolutely the trouble with the park....the pitch of the rail setups is rediculous - unless you want to disaster the entire thing.......the quarter at the bottom is always toombstoned cause its a "sunwall" - they should actually just put the park up over by the glades near country road...or something....i dunno.....heres hoping for snow over there this season....and heres hoping the lump even opens....more financial troubles brewing again...and if they dont get somthing locked down for sponsorship this year....that'll be the end of 'er.
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yeah this is what EVERYONE says, that the park is too steep, and it should go over to those runs near country road.The good thing about it is not getting enough speed isn't an issue and if you're hiking rails you don't have to go far up the hill.
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Not enough speed for the jumps? man i have to speed check a million times goin into the ones that are there now. And i hope to god the lump opens....if not il do it the old fashion hike and ski ahhaha its not that hard to do.
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I said not getting enough speed isn't an issue, kind of unclear cause I guess it is a double negative, but I meant you can get enough speed. and yeah I've been hike-and skiing the woods and pipeline over here the last couple days, fun shit.
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true i missed the double negative. yea i only have been skiing once and that was on a pwc rail behind the local hockey rink. I WISH THE SNOW WOULD STAY!!!
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WORD about the snow staying. I went jibbing behind the Pepsi center here where they have some siiiiickkk rails in this chain fence compound thing. Also tried to slide some rails on campus but had speed problems since they all have a lot of flat before them -I'm gonna have to build a drop in.
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yea man they just put in a brand new 16 stair down rail right next to my house. as soon as there is any solid snow i am hitting it up. it is sooo sick. I f you head out this way any time the winter hit me up and i can take you to some spots.
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