Help me out.....be open minded

if this guy from mammoth is any good at all, why in the fuck would he leave mammoth for a tiny resort in ohio? don't be blinded by locations. he very well may be a total hack and mad river's park could be just as awful as it usually is. as for all the guns... we couldn't put any more guns in the terrain park. we had like ten 50 foot tall piles of snow last year, amongst innumerable other smaller piles. will snowtrails have the best park in the midwest? some may say yes, but i think we're extremely limited due to the size. will snowtrails be better than mad river? unanimous HELL YES. definitely go to snowtrails.

trust me dude chris T is going to rock your world at snowtrails this winter you have my word!!!!!! {that sounds kinda wrong but when you see the park that is the only words that are going to come out of your mouth}!!!!!!!!!

Mad River makes me want to kill myself everytime I got there. Snowtrails doesn't. Therefore, I vote snowtrails.

hahaha cody crunk knows whats up! lol.

yea man, that cat is FROM mammoth, TO ohio. whats that say? it dont work that way. people like Westover get good here, then GO there.

the bottom line with Mad River, is that is is Owned by Peak Resorts. all of opperations are fed ENTIRELY by how many ski club kids they can cram into their resort. they do not care at all about the locals, the people who actually make the resort. Snowtrails has such a strong community of awesome locals, awesome events and atmosphere, and to top it off, the sickest, most imaculately groomed terrain park in the region. plus, hehehe, we are gettin some fuckin DIRTY rails and jibs. youll cream your pants when you see what we got lined up. shits legit.

ok from a kid that has lived in mammoth for numerous seasons, people do migrate this way meaning west to east. mammoth's park is run extremely corporate, which isn't necessarily bad for us riders because mammoth has made a name out of having innovative ideas, keep in mind however that these ideas come from one man and maybe a few pro riders, it is by no means a democracy. its not saying much if you push snow at mammoth they catdrivers are hired and fired every week there and when you do drive park cat at mammoth, you're just grooming out what oren(park manager) built. if you came from june mtn you have a little more freedom. the main thing that you want from a cat operator that has lived in mammoth is that he has an understanding of how to build safe, big jumps. yes it is possible to have the same jump be both, in fact the bigger usually means the safer because its size is a natural deturrent for gapers. i have seen someone killed on a 5 foot jump in mammoth's south terrain park. what i have failed to see in the midwest with the exception of marquette who's park i helped design, is a fundamentally safe jump. i live in cincinnati now but am out west about twice month for my film company. i have skiied everything down here and they all lack good jumps, just my opinion. hopefully the guy knows whats up and builds some good jumps, if he does let me know and i'm all over it.
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I haven't been there in for a season or so, but it is my opinion that a ski resort can change dramatically in just one season, so you shouldn't count them out. Granted the park when i was there pretty much blew dogs for quarters, but as long as management acknowledges the problem and has put the right people in place to fix the park it could happen. And personally it doesn't matter whether you're from Mammoth or the midwest or east coast when it comes to building a park. If you have cat time and know how jumps and parks should flow and have enough skill to make what you want happen then you can make a sick park. Some factors that hinder that are upper managment, like if the boss freaks out everytime he sees a 30' jump then the park will always blow. If you simply don't have the space or vertical to do it, it also can't happen. However i think that the state of Mad River's park when i was there had enough room for improvement that i don't think you could make a bad change there. The run(s) that they had dedicated to park were decent enough, but totally lacked flow and correctly build features.

So basically all i'm saying is that i would spend one day on a weekend after the site says that the park is up and running and check out MRM's park. If it blows then you know that either the guy from Mammoth doesn't know dick, management won't let him do what he wants, or MRM will always just suck when it comes to park. Give it one or two shots.

Tad