Skier crew run park like 1817's partnership with buck hill

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Dec 5 2016 7:50PM

Buck hill in Burnsville, Minnesota, which also just added a dry slope for the summer, partnered with the 1817 snowboard crew also out of minnesota to design, build, and maintain and basically make an 1817 branded park in every sense. Growing up skiing hyland and buck hill I've been watching these guys kill it and build an awesome snowboarding community/movement in Minnesota/ the midwest thats kind of seperate from the scenes on the coasts and has been responsible for a ton of innovation in the sports. Ive see them at the roots of a lot trends in snowboarding (which skiing has then coopted as it often does) including new tricks, the carhart overalls wearing segment of skiing and snowboarding, and trollhaugen blowing up. I also see them as one of the main reasons that snowboarding is still king at most Midwest hills. Their park at buck looks super sick already even with the limited snow minnesota has seen. Has this ever happened in skiing? Something like the bunch or the hoodcrew completely taking over a park that's at the epicenter of their scene. If not I think it would be dope to see it happen. The way I see it, this is a completely new opportunity for crews in skiing and snowboarding to connect with their communities/ individual scenes and market the shit out of themselves. What think u ns?

http://yobeat.com/2016/12/05/1817-monday-minute-and-new-direction/

https://www.google.com/amp/www.snowboarder.com/photos/interview-joe-sexton-jake-oe-new-1817-park-buck-hill/%3Famphtml%3D1?client=safari

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Obie.

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Dec 6 2016 11:00AM

Yeah I was really stoked to see this also. The 1817 crew kills it & has a collection of my favorite boarders foreshure. Jake O.E is the man.

Being from the midwest I've always appreciated what they've been able to do in Minnesota / Wisconsin. As you said above, they've made a tight community around such small hills not too dissimilar what I grew up riding in Michigan. Cannonsburg in Grand Rapids MI is the most similar in my home state to what we're seeing in areas like Hyland, Buck Hill, & Troll. And it's no mystery that their investment in park development has single-handily put them on the map. The mentality that you misewell use the small hill with a mediocre pitch to make a dope ass park isn't fucking rocket science. It's never going to be known for anything else when there's far better elsewhere.

I'd love to see a ski crew get on that & could definitely see The Bunch do something like that or the Keeshlife crew get that going @ Ruka. We need stuff like this in our community to give voice and appreciation to the smaller & less fortunate (as far as snowfall & vertical drop goes)

Good thread.

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foolmetwice

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Dec 6 2016 6:40PM

Obie.Yeah I was really stoked to see this also. The 1817 crew kills it & has a collection of my favorite boarders foreshure. Jake O.E is the man.

Being from the midwest I've always appreciated what they've been able to do in Minnesota / Wisconsin. As you said above, they've made a tight community around such small hills not too dissimilar what I grew up riding in Michigan. Cannonsburg in Grand Rapids MI is the most similar in my home state to what we're seeing in areas like Hyland, Buck Hill, & Troll. And it's no mystery that their investment in park development has single-handily put them on the map. The mentality that you misewell use the small hill with a mediocre pitch to make a dope ass park isn't fucking rocket science. It's never going to be known for anything else when there's far better elsewhere.

I'd love to see a ski crew get on that & could definitely see The Bunch do something like that or the Keeshlife crew get that going @ Ruka. We need stuff like this in our community to give voice and appreciation to the smaller & less fortunate (as far as snowfall & vertical drop goes)

Good thread.

Lol I guess buck and 1817 r a lil to "core" for newschoolers i dont think anyone knows what the fuck im talking about

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Kretzschmar

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Dec 6 2016 7:01PM

Definitely was stoked to see this partnership. Building on what you said, I think Troll is pretty similar in the sense that the crew that sets up the park there is a tight knit group of dudes that has definitely set some trends for locals, just not as widespread as the 1817 guys. I'd love to see this happen with a crew like the Bunch (although you could say Creation Nation is somewhat like this).

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JichelMusten

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Dec 6 2016 7:33PM

Trollhaugen is definitely like this. The park crew is really nice group of snowboarders with three skiers and they kill it at setting up and maintaining features. I love the midwest exactly because of stuff like this. People are so open and chill while still killing it in the park. Having a ski group take over a park similar to 1817 would be sick, but I could only see it happen at a small resort similar to the ones in the midwest. As a skier in the midwest 1817 is one of names I hear the most and I think building a park like this is really good for getting a group's name out there.

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YUNG_milksteAk

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Dec 6 2016 11:24PM

foolmetwiceLol I guess buck and 1817 r a lil to "core" for newschoolers i dont think anyone knows what the fuck im talking about

seems like he knew exactly what you were talking about...

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foolmetwice

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Dec 6 2016 11:27PM

YUNG_milksteAkseems like he knew exactly what you were talking about...

it had been a day and i thot it was an interesting topic that folks might want to discuss and no one had responded besides him. I didn't mean to use core as in like its some exclusive shit that u only know about if ur in the scene I just meant that maybe I had overestimated how much ppl knew/cared about Minnesota snowboard scene

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foolmetwice

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Dec 6 2016 11:29PM

foolmetwiceit had been a day and i thot it was an interesting topic that folks might want to discuss and no one had responded besides him. I didn't mean to use core as in like its some exclusive shit that u only know about if ur in the scene I just meant that maybe I had overestimated how much ppl knew/cared about Minnesota snowboard scene

so to clarify I was commenting on the lack of responses besides his not the content of his response

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YUNG_milksteAk

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Dec 6 2016 11:32PM

foolmetwiceso to clarify I was commenting on the lack of responses besides his not the content of his response

ok that makes sense.

Im stoked to ride buck over christmas break when I'm in MN. Hylands park looks really fun right now too with all the little features and kids getting creative with side lips.

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foolmetwice

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Dec 6 2016 11:42PM

YUNG_milksteAkok that makes sense.

Im stoked to ride buck over christmas break when I'm in MN. Hylands park looks really fun right now too with all the little features and kids getting creative with side lips.

Me 2. I'll prolly try to get a job bumping chairs at hyland for a couple weeks if they need an extra hand

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yoke

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Dec 7 2016 12:29AM

Shit like this is driving by passion and conviction. If you want change, do something about it. Don't wait around for someone to do it for you.. cause it probably wont happen.

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Tamas

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Dec 7 2016 2:37PM

I mean Dais crew basically did that with Sugarbush.

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