Park Etiquette Education Brainstorm

Maybe I'm missing the point. However, this sounds like a good idea. Here are my suggestions for thing to be in some sort of list that they would be linked to.

1. Hit the features if you hit the lip.
2. No sitting in, on or above the landing.
3. Read the sign at the top of the park.
4. If you are not ready to hit a feature ask someone who can how. (Or don't hit it right then.)
5. If you have crashed make some noise, I almost landed on a 6 year old a pico last year.

My $.02

i dont think im reading this properly because my home mt makes you take a class if its your first time getting a park pass, but i also get what your saying. but then again we also have a mini park that most of the gapers stay in. sometimes youll see them but besides that its not to bad. then again thats only one mt that i know that does that. I like the idea of a park pass and taking a class but that is just me. truthfully i could care less if gapers are in the park, i mean we all sucked at skiing at one point

its not going to change, you cant change it, and its not even that big of a deal in the first place. just ski around them and enjoy watching them crash

I have never came across a park pass before, that is news to me. I also don't really care that much either. This was started in response to the comments I was getting but it's not going anywhere haha which is totally fine.

and I thought for the longest time that all parks had them. i guess its just where your from

I kind of skimmed it cause I'm heading to bead so threads for tomorrow.

At the same time the business cards and education thing, not so sure about that. A good place to start is be a mentor in a way. If you see some young shredders spin some laps with them and help them out. If you see some gaper kids try and explain what they're doing wrong simply and straight forward.

I feel ya and I try to do that when I can but I wasn't sure if other people would be willing to get on board with that. In all honesty I don't think it will ever change but I don't really want to see huge implements changing the structure of the ski hill. Bad vibes haha

I grew up in Colorado and have skied a lot in the northernly midwest. Minnesota and Wisconsin mostly and have never come across a park pass or have even heard of it until today. Out of the loop I guess

I think the power lies in the ski patrol to enforce proper use of park jibs and jumps.

nope, can't be done. I went to this shitty place for a school ski trip (Welch Village MN), they don't have jumps and the rails have a 2" thick layer of rust on them. I had to use the lip of a down rail as my jump.

Yeah honestly. Good idea, and I hate to be a hater. But it probably won't happen. Ski around them, I try to make it obvious that they are in the blatant way when I am lapping the park. Just cut pretty close like you don't see them there, and proceed to hit the feature. Don't hit them obviously. If they are standing in the landing, ask them to politely move so they don't get seriously injured.

ALSO!!!!!! We could make stickers that have a picture of a rail and the lip onto, put an arrow pointing at the lip, and it says "THIS IS NOT A JUMP"

I want to laminate a picture of a rail and post it at the top of the park with arrows off the sides saying "this is not a jump".


And Idk how much park pass got discussed in here but really not a fan of them. The good thing is some places you don't need one as long as you look like you know what you're doing. If I go to a mountain for 1 day the last thing I want is to get up there and get turned away at the park and told I have to go find some place to watch a video and pay a couple bucks when the only reason I bought the lift ticket was probably the park.

I guess some places it works some places it doesn't. If places offer better beginner options that helps spread people out. If you have a dialed beginner park and they're sitting on the landings of the big jump line then you can be like WHAT ARE YOU DOING. It sucks for mountains with only 1 or 2 parks though. You're fitting your biggest and smallest stuff in one run and it's impossible to keep the crowds separated.

I think park passes and a required class are kind of stupid, but it's probably nice having a park without a bunch of little gapers everywhere.
I like the ski patrol idea but they don't know park etiquette as well. I think the park crew could enforce some of these problems. If the crew sees some of that shit go down, they should take care of it, which they often do. I don't know if park crew can cut passes but they should be able to.

... If the features dont't suck then hit them.

It doesn't bother me enough to be worth a class to obtain a park pass. And on top of that the class will eventually just be looked at like all other mandatory classes.. no one cares.