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San Francisco Fake snow park on Kickstarter

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Mansion
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bayareasnowpark/bay-area-snow-park
the rug burn...
Nov 5 2013 5:15PM
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PM4FreeJiberish
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It's finally happening. Summers gonna be dope!
Nov 5 2013 5:49PM
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snakerton
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Looks pretty cool. Too bad I don't live in the bay area...
Nov 5 2013 5:50PM
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Smuffy
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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
Nov 5 2013 5:51PM
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JAHBRADOR
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Ski Boards ftw!
Nov 5 2013 5:54PM
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JAHBRADOR
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This is actually dope. A double line of snowflex jumps. This is the future!
Nov 5 2013 5:59PM
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BChaps1209
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good luck getting a mil
Nov 5 2013 6:03PM
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stupendous-man
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Im definitely doing $10 for the day pass. Im down there so much, this is gonna be sick if they get enough funding.
Nov 5 2013 6:45PM
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NH_OPERATOR
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A million is an fucking ambitious goal. They will be seriously lucky if they get it. I hope they do but I doubt it'll happen.
Nov 5 2013 6:47PM
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ThaLorax
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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.
Nov 5 2013 11:37PM
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reedwj
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Just Made a $300 contribution for the season Pass
Show it some love NS. I really want to see this thing funded.
Nov 6 2013 12:46AM
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Static
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Whoever edited that promo video must have an issue with skiers, that husky guy was too dazed by the $ signs he didn't even notice
Nov 6 2013 3:20AM
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reedwj
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The video does suck but fuck it... The bay could really use something like this.
Nov 6 2013 1:35PM
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fortyvalve
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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.
Nov 6 2013 2:07PM
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ThaLorax
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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.
Nov 6 2013 2:28PM
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VT_scratch
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...what if it snowed in san francisco?
Nov 6 2013 3:39PM
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tbayskier
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I'd grind the san fran bridge...
Nov 6 2013 3:41PM
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Enthuzed
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Did anyone else notice this line? "This no grooming surface called snowflex, is consistently consistent. " ha.
Nov 6 2013 3:46PM
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mski
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Dude, a million dollars probably wouldn't even buy the land you'd need for this idea.
Nov 6 2013 3:59PM
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ThaLorax
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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....
Nov 6 2013 5:00PM
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nutz.
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It should be in fremont haha theres lots of empty land where im at and theres a couple hills too
Nov 6 2013 5:45PM
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BagOTricks
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Snow Park Niagara bombed fast, I hope this one (being in a much better area) succeeds. Would be sick to see these popping up all across the country.
Nov 6 2013 6:01PM
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theabortionator
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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?
Nov 6 2013 6:43PM
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theabortionator
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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.
Nov 6 2013 6:46PM
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Alex_G
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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.
Nov 6 2013 6:52PM
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ThaLorax
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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.
Nov 6 2013 6:55PM
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VT_scratch
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haha nice.

I was getting at this though- :52 seconds

Nov 6 2013 10:41PM
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KingTaco
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The net shaun white or Lindsay vonn might be from San Jose lolololol
Nov 7 2013 10:57AM
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seb_hofmann
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Don't they have a place like this in Virginia? Liberty mountain i think
Nov 7 2013 12:58PM
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will_powder
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Get rid of the halfpipe, biggest waste of space.
Nov 7 2013 1:09PM
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NH_OPERATOR
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Oh god, I remember that game. It was badddddd. I do however remember when graphics like that looked good. How far we have come.
Nov 7 2013 1:18PM
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ABalls
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Snowpark Niagara :(
Nov 7 2013 2:09PM
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theabortionator
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What's the story with that? I wanted to check it out. Made it to whaleback and liberty, but I never made it out there.
Nov 7 2013 2:17PM
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Smuffy
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It was hype... for 3 months
Nov 7 2013 8:45PM
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ABalls
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I wanted to get up there with all the dudes from hv and kb but I never go to
Nov 9 2013 7:43PM
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FiftyFifty
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one week in and only 8 grand raised... This project was doomed before it ever got started.
Nov 13 2013 11:58PM
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