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Not the worst park but probably the worst looking. Things got pretty interesting this year...but we kept it going haha.
This picture was from mid february we had more snow when we closed mid march.
TOAST.Not the worst park but probably the worst looking. Things got pretty interesting this year...but we kept it going haha.
This picture was from mid february we had more snow when we closed mid march.
Jay Peak made the moat dangerous feature to beginner features ever. Someone is going to come cooking into it and wont be able to turn, ending up mangled on the rail, which is way to high to hit.
baitJay Peak made the moat dangerous feature to beginner features ever. Someone is going to come cooking into it and wont be able to turn, ending up mangled on the rail, which is way to high to hit.
baitJay Peak made the moat dangerous feature to beginner features ever. Someone is going to come cooking into it and wont be able to turn, ending up mangled on the rail, which is way to high to hit.
how tf does someone look at this and go "this is a good idea"
baitJay Peak made the moat dangerous feature to beginner features ever. Someone is going to come cooking into it and wont be able to turn, ending up mangled on the rail, which is way to high to hit.
baitJay Peak made the moat dangerous feature to beginner features ever. Someone is going to come cooking into it and wont be able to turn, ending up mangled on the rail, which is way to high to hit.
90053just how
a_burgerhow tf does someone look at this and go "this is a good idea"
DieselChevysThat's unhittable, how could you even hit that
Did any of you fucks even bother to look at the finish pictures after the heat vent lifter was installed?
As far as this thread. I think I need to give a shout out to buttermilk. Def not the worst park but a pretty garbage park, and considering they host the xgames, it's near the top of the list for garbage on the potential scale.
Place has all the reasons to have a good park, but does put out a quality product. It wasn't miserable but the parks weren't that great, and maintenance was pretty shitty.
It's going to take a lot for them to rekindle any kind of park vibe. First building a decently not shit park and maintaining it would help.
I hope things turn around there though. Cool little mountain, epic potential, just need to make some MAJOR changes. Maybe a step by step walk through of how to rake out a feature could help.
baitJay Peak made the moat dangerous feature to beginner features ever. Someone is going to come cooking into it and wont be able to turn, ending up mangled on the rail, which is way to high to hit.
that's totally doable for someone with good rail skills, esp on a snowboard
BUT that shit has no place in a beginner park and isnt set up very well, and i prob wouldnt hit it even though im way better than everyone else in this thread
SofaKingSickthat's totally doable for someone with good rail skills, esp on a snowboard
BUT that shit has no place in a beginner park and isnt set up very well, and i prob wouldnt hit it even though im way better than everyone else in this thread
You could def hit it on a snowboard but it still has no place in a park really. Ultra sketch. Best siilar option would be to run a dancefloor up to the rail so you come on side entry for the down. If you're a baller or suicidal you could still try to get on from the front.
I'm not entirely sure anyone could actually hit that as is on skis. Maybe if they're was $ for the first person to do it and they just hiked it. But even good skiers would be getting fucked by this.
Def the kind of feature that will ruin somebodies season and get a place sued.
hidden valley in st louis we have a park crew that usually do a good job but sometimes they do unexplainable shit like putting in a picnic table as a jib with a really bizarre lip
LamestPantyWest Mtn in NY (home mtn) and Pico Mtn really suck
Pico’s my home mountain and i agree its park is terrible and last year they decided to move it from its own little mountain woth chair over to a tiny trail at the bottom of the beginner trail. And now its completely terrible.
Hands down SilverStar,
the park crew they have the actual nerve to try and make an effort and like build fun features and make it beginner friendly but still seperated... so fucked
Buena Vista in Bemidji, MN
This is the main photo on their web page promoting their terrain park, and sums it up nicely.
My parents moved just south of it after I went to college, and I went to it once when I was back visiting and swore I needed a tetanus shot after falling on a rail because it was so rusted.
Ryan5_MNBuena Vista in Bemidji, MN
This is the main photo on their web page promoting their terrain park, and sums it up nicely.
My parents moved just south of it after I went to college, and I went to it once when I was back visiting and swore I needed a tetanus shot after falling on a rail because it was so rusted.
I wish there was a "How to setup and maintain features in your park video". Since some places don't have the budget, or don't want to make the effort to learn from other places, go to cutters camp, or follow good parks and see what works and doesn't. A 5 minute video that briefly shows things to do and things to avoid like the plaque regarding park construction.
The mountain I used to work at in NY(Gore Mtn) used a picture of a girl in pink side jumping a down rail takeoff in a wedge as the photo pf the day. Caption was like "Check out our awesome terrain park at gore!!!" and it wasn't a joke.
theabortionatorThe mountain I used to work at in NY(Gore Mtn) used a picture of a girl in pink side jumping a down rail takeoff in a wedge as the photo pf the day. Caption was like "Check out our awesome terrain park at gore!!!" and it wasn't a joke.
I probably posted it in one of the threads about gore on here years ago. Also a good chance it's still in their photo off the days if you scroll back. I would say 2009-10 or 2010-11
It's that shotgun down rail. Pic was on wild air I believe. I'll post if I find it.
theabortionatorI wish there was a "How to setup and maintain features in your park video". Since some places don't have the budget, or don't want to make the effort to learn from other places, go to cutters camp, or follow good parks and see what works and doesn't. A 5 minute video that briefly shows things to do and things to avoid like the plaque regarding park construction.
The mountain I used to work at in NY(Gore Mtn) used a picture of a girl in pink side jumping a down rail takeoff in a wedge as the photo pf the day. Caption was like "Check out our awesome terrain park at gore!!!" and it wasn't a joke.
I actually whipped this up for one of the mountains I work at, its in a binder full of other info like how to groom the park, how to set up the entrance, what a good jump looks like etc. in ski patrol
it would not be a bad idea for the NSAA to make a handbook or something and just mail it to all the small hills out there
a_burgerI actually whipped this up for one of the mountains I work at, its in a binder full of other info like how to groom the park, how to set up the entrance, what a good jump looks like etc. in ski patrol
it would not be a bad idea for the NSAA to make a handbook or something and just mail it to all the small hills out there
Hell yeah. I've seen too many of the mystery down box/rail features. You hit the takeoff and SURPRISE!!!
Also agreed. There are still a shit ton of mountains that are totally oblivious on how to set up even the most basic features. Something to show people the right and wrong way and at least give them a starting point.
I've always said that a lot of small parks could have a pretty sick park if they took even 4 or so rail/boxes they already had and set them up well. One of those terrain park threads on here had some pretty impressively sketch stuff. The kind where you look at that and think "how the fuck did anyone think that looked good?"
aidannaughtonYawgoo Valley in Rhode Island doesnt have the greatest park in the world, it just forces you to get creative
It's home to the real skifi of snowboarding except everybody loves yawgoons and thinks they're the coolest shit around (because they are). The shit they do is mind bending but I can't imagine that the place has a good park on the daily.
john18061806It's home to the real skifi of snowboarding except everybody loves yawgoons and thinks they're the coolest shit around (because they are). The shit they do is mind bending but I can't imagine that the place has a good park on the daily.
Yeah its my home resort so they are usually there chilling, but most of the crazy stuff they do there other people arent allowed to do or they just do it at 10 am on a tuesday or something when no one is there. They pretty much run the place and every now and then they leave a cool feature or two around but the managers dont allow anyone else the creative budget that the yawgoons get.
I must agree with you, the stuff they put out is mind bending, and seeing some of the crazy stuff in person is wild as well
Not a worst parks really, but it grinds my gears when big ski areas post pictures of terrible looking takeoffs like this on their official pages. I personally think everything should be kept in a way that you could take a picture any time, even with the ruts, and have it look pretty good. But sometimes I'm like "why the fuck wouldn't you fix that before taking a picture for your page?"
It just makes a park look shitty and low budget imo.
Stratton parks truly suck. Used to have some of the best parks around during the glory days of the US open and ross powers. Been in decline ever since US Open left in '13. Some years we had like 8 parks all around the mountain. Now we're down to just two and they're basically right next to each other. Tyro is super small with tiny jumps that don't even have landings and suntanner is just wasted space with features that most people can't hit. Seems like they're shrinking every year too. God I miss the old days
03gadeThe shitty mountain I worked at I'm CT: powder ridge. It was the first year of the reopen after being shutdown for nearly a decade and the new owner essentially found some old rails hanging around and had no qualified park crew so just kind of put them down and made some crappy ride ins.
Oh, and then he went and drove the snow cat by himself to make jumps one night and we get to work and it's kickers that were right on the edge of of the landing spots that were formed by mounds in the grass underneath. We had to send some people up to try and dismantle the kickers by hand so noone got hurt. After that fiasco we made a instructor with cat experience our terrain park manager and I left after that season.
Anyone from the ski sundown community reading this: never go to powder ridge.
DUDE, Feel you on that, I am park crew there now bc I live right down the road. Its still not park city and will never be but we finally got an actual park manager that knows how to use the cat and make actual lips and jumps, so its getting there. Just typical snow struggle bc its the east coast. anyway I feel man.
TOAST.Not the worst park but probably the worst looking. Things got pretty interesting this year...but we kept it going haha.
This picture was from mid february we had more snow when we closed mid march.
Damn this was posted last year but I totally forgot about RT looking like that. Not gonna lie I still rode a tone of laps on that set up.
JWillySkeezDamn this was posted last year but I totally forgot about RT looking like that. Not gonna lie I still rode a tone of laps on that set up.
To be completely honest I had tons of fun the day before weaving between dirt patches and shreading the dirty ass setup. Can't believe that slope was even open. Also funny that we bounced back from that and stayed open like 4 weeks longer.
Shoey-SkiTussey Mountain Parks
That is a 7foot tall wall ride stood up and down, with 2 lips roughly 1 foot each, and almost no landing the plastic on the top is almost unslideable btw
also gore parks they make some sketchy stuff
That’s my local mountain and the park is almost un skiiable
Halfbrow4902That’s my local mountain and the park is almost un skiiable
Which resort?
Anyways I ski in PA and I actually enjoyed tussey's park a few setups they had this year. Perfect for an intermediate park rider like me. But the worst park I have ever been to was definitely blue nob. Skied there around 30 days this year because I had a season pass and they had a total of 2 or 3 setups with the same features, Sketchy up flat, box that was practically completely submerged in the ground, battleship box but it is not really fun on skis, rainbow box that was boring, and a small ass kicker and sometimes 2. Pretty shitty because they never changed it, still made the best out of it and had fun lmao.
**This post was edited on Apr 28th 2018 at 8:12:32pm
Anyways I ski in PA and I actually enjoyed tussey's park a few setups they had this year. Perfect for an intermediate park rider like me. But the worst park I have ever been to was definitely blue nob. Skied there around 30 days this year because I had a season pass and they had a total of 2 or 3 setups with the same features, Sketchy up flat, box that was practically completely submerged in the ground, battleship box but it is not really fun on skis, rainbow box that was boring, and a small ass kicker and sometimes 2. Pretty shitty because they never changed it, still made the best out of it and had fun lmao.
**This post was edited on Apr 28th 2018 at 8:12:32pm
Anyways I ski in PA and I actually enjoyed tussey's park a few setups they had this year. Perfect for an intermediate park rider like me. But the worst park I have ever been to was definitely blue nob. Skied there around 30 days this year because I had a season pass and they had a total of 2 or 3 setups with the same features, Sketchy up flat, box that was practically completely submerged in the ground, battleship box but it is not really fun on skis, rainbow box that was boring, and a small ass kicker and sometimes 2. Pretty shitty because they never changed it, still made the best out of it and had fun lmao.
**This post was edited on Apr 28th 2018 at 8:12:32pm
Halfbrow4902Gore
RIP GORE IS ASS, but anyways, tussey wasnt as bad as usual this year. They had a few decent setups some were actually fun, way better than previous years
