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JosephRikysHeading up right now to nab some of the pre season snow. Hopefully grab enough to set up a ghetto PVC pipe down at the house in raetihi.
Churrr bada
ShepuxNext dump of snow and I'll be down there with two PVC pipes
ShepuxNext dump of snow and I'll be down there with two PVC pipes
JosephRikyslets hit each other up fo sho when it does!
PhotoGraphicShould organize something around the Saturday of the 13th try and set up some rails if there is snow to be had on Turoa either in the park or near the giant, something with a decent run up onto it. Anyone keen just post up or hit me up
PhotoGraphicWent up for a ride around Nga wai heke and at the the top of the lift there is that 200mm rail just sitting in the snow, plenty of snow around it to build. Been an awesome weekend with everyone
PhotoGraphicRusty, it isn't the Turoa parks one. It is just a pipe in the ground used it as a rail last year has a semi ledge to it quite close to the bull wheel on the nga wai heke 20 metres to the left of it
BigTownKidchur bru anyone know when turoa's opening?
rozboonClaimed opening is 27th June. I haven't seen them bring it forward in a long, long time - I think this lines up with the first week of the school holidays?
BungHole.Who can I expect to be cruising the baby slopes at turoa this weekend?
rozboon7.5 million school children and twice that number of irate parents complaining about things.
I think I'll wait until from the Giant Café down is skiiable
theabortionatorA couple rails in the meadow right now, setup looks pretty clean.Flat bars smooth as. Kinda sticky today but it was hot. I can see the park crew building up at giant in the webcam now
Linkedany one know what the plan for the park is yet? its so good having a decent rail in the meadow early season instead of the usual small box
theabortionatorI can ask kris what the deetz are.
I think he's been busy in the shop getting some of the rails cleaned up. New small ish rainbow box in progress.
Probably will have something up as soon as tim can farm enough snow up there.
rozboonSo wtf is going on here?
https://www.facebook.com/turoaparks/photos/a.1514519152116016.1073741831.1512174622350469/1651882578379672/?type=1&theater
I'm sure I must be missing something.
Someone was saying they had built it too close the Giant offload and it was bottlenecking, ok fair enough move it over but since they closed it straight away and roped it all off... what's going on there? Anyone got the inside word?
theabortionatorWas that park open? Or is it closed for them working on it? I feel like if they closed it because there wasn't enough space going past the giant they would have moved the boo line over more to give the regular skiers more space.
Also is that luke just standing there?
marrowsYes it was open, I heard it mentioned that ski patrol were more concerned about the idea of metal rails underneath the lift line, which is retarded.
rozboonJesus if it's actually about having a rail under the lift, wtf. There's plenty of other unpleasant stuff you could fall on from a chairlift. Like, say, the ground.
I have often wondered why they don't just push a bunch of snow alongside the Giant offload though, surely it wouldn't be super hard to make that another cat or so wider?
BungHole.Anyone know what's in the park now? Cams are iced over so I can't see.
ShepuxDown rail and a flat box. Not sure about the jumps though
