Alpine Meadows Park Updates 2010

I'll post up the vid from NickyB as well. Nice job on the vid. I hear your concern on the last jump. We feel it's no worse than it was riding out into Summit runout off Nick's landing. As far as the gapers, we'll try to educate as much as possible. One of the reasons we moved the park is so more people would use them. Including gapers. Sorry they pay the bills.

Let me layout some of the positives of moving the parks onto the mountain. I'm stoked everybody liked the jumps on Roo, but we can do better. 

#1- Longer park run: Once we get upper meadow/Terry's return going, it will be about a full mile of terrain park in one run. Rails, jumps and maybe even a pipe one day, all in one run is the goal.

#2 All mountain access: The end goal is to be able to catch at least a little park off any lift at Alpine. I like to ride the whole mountain and I hope you do too. We hope to show the kids there is more to the mountain than just park. So when they get older and brittle, they still ride Alpine.

#3 High speed access: It's almost as fast to ride up summit, then it was to ride Kangaroo. These chairs are going to stay open longer. Remember how every year the park would close early because they would stop running roo? Well that's not a problem anymore.

#4 More snow for the jumps: Once it really snows, there will be more snow for building and keeping them up. We run out of snow on roo every year. I don't think it will be a problem under the palisades/lower saddle avy runouts.

#5 Breakovers for jumps: It takes much less snow to build awesome landings with good rollovers. There was no breakovers in roo, so it was all dictated by how much snow we could make.  Plus in runs will be better for longer smoother takeoffs.

#6 Better rail set-ups: We've never been able to set up good rails because of the slope we were working on. If you've noticed the rails are probably better than they've ever been on roo.

#7 Better photo opportunities: Look around when your in the new parks. Roo was in a hole

Well thats a short list for now. I'll get more up when I have more time.

Glad you guys like it. More to come soon. Somebody please make it stop raining!

jumps were money the second was hard for me to keep speed but im a light weight

^Easy, WEST CoAST REPRESENT. All my crue is from the east coast though.

Don't worry about hard landings anymore cause it looks like it's going to snow for a while. Hopefully enough to really blow these things up. Bigger the better.

I don't have a pic of that last DFD. I'll get more pics up after the snow.

I've heard it called all sorts of things. We call it "the boob". Thought about that gap before. Not sure if it's possible but maybe.

There will be more intermediate jibs in roo ridge when the snow falls.

Worked on the jumps in the sneaky wease last night. Made them into skate style hips. They're like half a skate pyrimid. We'll probably put some jib bonks on the decks.

I was going to take some pics of the big DFD but I forgot once I got working. I did get some pics of some of the tree jibs that we've been riding the last couple days.

Not sure if there are any deals going on right now. Here is the link.

http://www.skialpine.com/ski-tickets/season-passes

IF there will be a spring pass, I'll let you know.

Parks are being re-built. Jumps on Terry's and roo ridge are the next projects. New pics coming soon.

anything new?

We've spent the last week digging out and just getting things rideable again. We did manage to also get Roo ridge going with some intermediate jumps and jibs.

Here is what we have out there right now.

Red ridge rail line: 24' down, 36' d-f-d, 36' u-f-d, 24' u-f, 30' up, 32' f-d, 24' down, 40' d-f-d, 32' down

Dancefloor triple jump line: medium step down, large step up, large step over

Roo ridge: 24' flat box, 24' flat down box, four medium jumps, log stall

Sneaky wease: Container ride, three small jumps, four rollers, three burms

Tiegal: Butter box, tube stall, flat box, three small jumps

Now that we've caught up, we will be switching stuff up and adding more features. Look for more jibs on the skiers right side of the dancefloor jumps, more features in roo ridge, and construction to begin on Terry's return.

We'll see what the weather does.

Thats funny you say that. I just got a call from Team Sessions saying that the jumps were sick today. Have you been out this week?

Yes the jumps the last couple weeks were not that good but we also got around 10 feet of snow. Before that we didn't have much snow at all. So if your comparing to the end of last year, yeah they suck. But if you compare to January of last year, It's the best it's been in 3 years. Hands down!

Ater this weeks rebuild, the jumps start around 30' and end around 50' right now. If you can find a bigger triple line right now, I'd love to see it. Bust out the pics!

Man thank you for saying this, i was thinking about that guy saying "sub par" and thought what the hell? Are other resorts really that crazy right now. Cause i was up there this last weekend and everything was so clean and fresh, defiantly major props to the park crew for maintaining everything. Ridge was super fun, the jumps clean as always, and that last d-f-d is the sickest thing ever. I like how the last down bar is lower to the ground for people to learn stuff on, and the ridge jumps are perfect for practicing grabs and switch riding. The only thing i am gonna say though is i wish there was another flat bar on ridge so people who are riding can progress their tricks and style to the bigger park. But overall Killing It all over the mountain!

We're in the process of trying to get all the jibs on the hill. Just put the big F-D box and the Rainbow out last night. C-rail, battleships and the rest to make it out very soon.

I'd like to point out that we are working with a tiny staff. We have 6 guys on staff total . 4 day guys and two groomers (including myself). That means on most days I have a whopping 3 guys (2 day, 1 night). Please be patient with us. We are not like any of the other mountains with large budgets and lots of staff. We run bare bones and it takes us a while to get stuff up. That is not to say were not trying. We do this for ourselves and the love of building park. Someday we'll get that inflated budget.

Oh yeah, thanks for the props from the people that are having fun out there. It's only getting better.

HAHA

any one who is up there this weekend. whats it looking like right now?

Here are some pics from today. Should be a fun, sunny week, for park riding. Jumps are prime.

C- rail/ bow is up. new flat box on roo ridge. Just tried to make it through the madness this weekend. I'm off the next two but Terry's push will start Wed. Look for it to open hopefully by next weekend.

Anybody been hittin the jumps this weekend?