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announced their summer rates today.... you guessed it! Bend over, they're going in dry.
Full summer bike park pass at $250. If you have a 11/12 Winter pass, you only have to fork over $200! $35 for a day ticket on weekends. This compared to last year where if you had a winter pass you rode in the summer for free, and day tickets were $15.
Don't get me wrong- I knew this was coming and I realize you can't make improvements/upgrades without capital. That being said, this is just like last winter where they basically doubled their rates all in one fell swoop... apparently the idea of gradually increasing rates is non-existent to Talisker. For comparison's sake I think a Whistler Bike Park pass is $400 or $500 and Canyons, while making strides, is nowhere even close to that level yet.
I'll still be up there and I'll probably end up forking it over, but damn they better keep building new features and improving the existing stuff with these kinda prices.
No problem. As a follow up I rode the lifts at DV the day after I posted that. With the lack of snow this winter or rain this spring it's already dusty as hell. We did a few Fire Swamp laps and a couple on Homeward Bound (their "park" if you wanna call it that..) but got bored and left. Features are falling apart, berms aren't maintained, etc.
Hit Devo to Pointy Rocks last night which is in good shape, but again since you have to hike a bit from Silver Lake to get there there's no point in paying for a lift ticket. Park a car at the bottom of Snow Park Lodge and then take another up to Silver Lake or just catch the free bus that started running up there again and just lap Devo/NCS for free.
Ah good to know- like I said I hit Thieves before they'd put any work into it and between the dust and random sh!t scattered in the trail it was sketchy as hell. Fire Swamp was decent. And yeah the Devo--> Pointy Rocks section has become by far my favorite lap up there. Flows well, berms have enough of a trough now that you can track a line through them, the little launch off the road is fun, then the technical section at the very end is nice. But since it's mostly pretty chill it means I can bring all my XC-riding friends with me since they don't wanna go anywhere near NCS/Thieves/Fire Swamp. Thankfully I can usually get DV passes for free off some of my friends who work there so at least I'm not paying $36 for it. Free is always fun.
I hit a couple Moosehouse laps off Town Lift at PCMR earlier this week and that level of dust is nuts- it's truly like skiing/riding deep, brown pow. We need rain baaaaaaaad.
Even though The Canyons was one of the last resorts to open in Utah, they surely came out swinging. With the extra time to dial in their new and improved 1 mile long terrain park run, they did not disappoint. The awesome dudes over at The Canyons Terrain Park have been keeping the kids stoked [...][IMG]http://media.nscdn.com/uploads/images/17/00/03/09/74/30974.jpeg[/IMG]
Yes, once again Canyons Terrain Park is putting together the longest box in Utah for the second year in a row. This 252 foot combination box is by far the craziest feature you’ll ever see in a terrain park. Which is why Canyons Terrain Park is hosting this event yet again in 2011. Be sure [...][IMG]http://media.nscdn.com/uploads/images/17/00/03/13/55/31355.jpeg[/IMG]
Just a random day, a someday in the park at The Canyons. Check out Greg Bokenkamp, Tim Benasich, Will Tuddenham, Tucker Andrews, Sean Black and Caleb Flowers as they have a good ol? time riding the mountain. Enjoy! Someday in the Park Canyons from Pat Fenelon on Vimeo.
Yesterday was The Canyons team rider Ben Millsaps' after party's after party. It was the day after his birthday and time to continue the party in one of Ben's favorite places, In the Respect park at The Canyons. Erik Hutchins and Andy Varner through down on 9 large pizza and delivered the to the park shack, Wow. And The Park Crew came though tough with a super fun and creative signature birthday
