Hello Nick, my name is Josh and I'll be riding Bolton this year. You will know me as the guy who looks way too old to be shredding the park all night - 2011 Rossi S4 Jib.
While I've ridden at Bolton for many years at night, I've never been a passholder here and have never really learned much about daytime Bolton. I am going to be learning my way around the backcountry alot and have gotten lots of tips from some BV oldtimers about the awesome stuff available via skins up the nordic trails. I am pretty stoked to learn my way around another local mountain. And with all the orographic snow we get around here I think BV is going to provide me lots of sweet pow turns.
I've always come to Bolton for some night time park fixes. Your parks have been great and always improving, when SPT consulted a few years ago a really awesome two jump line showed up. Regardless I've always found a couple of features that are really cool and different and thats nice too.
I made a sketch of some of my ideas, and I wanted to say thanks for asking for some input.
I would like to see a triple jump line, with the jumps pretty close together so that you have to hit all the trannys right to keep correct speed. I like that difficulty factor and it demands that you really get your stuff dialed.
My biggest pet peeve has been with the big money jump being right in the middle. In my opinion it should be lower down, having it in the middle wastes some space. The other issue and this is really what bothers me is it fosters a huge group of gapers aka on lookers who get in the way of linking together a nice slopestyle run by congregating around the features before the money booter. This sucks and I can only yell at so many people before there mass gets to be too big to clear out of the way. Therefore I'd like to see a triple line with the biggest his/her option at the middle bottom of the park area. I think step overs or tables would make the nicest jump line, but I realize that would demand ALOT of snow.
I also like rails before and after jumps in a slope course, I think it demands you be on your game, because you can't flail off of a rail while you are setting up for a jump line similarly you can't go for broke with the trick you land 1 out of 10 times because you have to recollect yourself and slay that last rail. I think the before and after setup forces you to be clean and controlled.
I built my sketch on these concepts and while trying to piece together a really great slope course.
I look forward to meeting you up on the hill.
Thanks,
Josh
