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The built something like this near my hometown (that promptly went under) but while it was there, it was the shit. It would be sick to see this come to fruition
FYI, San Jose is not San Francisco. Honestly, I think San Jose is a terrible location for it. It's the furthest South region of the Bay Area and would make for difficult access for the rest of the Bay Area who would want to be able to ski it frequently.
Look at their planned goal for just the material to ski on, $18 mil alone on that stuff.... i think asking for 1 from the public is fine considering the sheer size of the project.
I grew up in Marin County, where a huge portion of the Bay Areas skiers reside. This place would be a 1.5-2 hour drive with normal traffic to go ski on a fake ski hill. I'd rather just drive the extra hour and get my "real snow on real mountains". Yeah, it'd be great for the off-season, but the current proposed location is alienating millions of potential customers. That said, I don't really know of many other places in the Bay Area that would allow you to cover an entire naturally grass covered hill side with that ugly white fake snow shit.
It snowed in SF a few years ago and lots of people were on that urban hype. There was also a 30 car pileup because nobody there knows how to drive when it's icy though....
The cal train is only like 6 or 7 bucks right? and you can get between san fran and san jose. At least as far as I remember. I'm not over there that often and have only take that train ride a few times, so I could be off base.
I mean where the fuck would they put it in san fran?
Has anybody ridden the halfpipes? Interested in how those work. Only full snowflex park I've ridden was Liberty when it opened. They had a 1.4 but that's different.
Also not sure where the park is in video but seems kind of sketchy if that place get's crowded. You have to cross right under the landing of the jump to ride the trail down. Stomp a trick and then plow into a gaper.
golden gate park. it's not worth it by the way. san jose is literally the worst place to put it but since nobody really wants to live there it's easy to get permits. I would say to put it somewhere else nobody gives a shit about, like concord.
I would never take the caltrain with all my ski gear. I was thinking somewhere like the Oakland hills or even somewhere near San Rafael/Novato would be a better location to give access to a higher percentage of the Bay Area. But San Rafael would be the opposite problem as San Jose and nobody would give up their land there for this.