Are the East Coast Resorts Struggling to Open Terrain Parks in Time?

mikemoose

mikemoose

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The past two years my local resort has struggled to open and "complete" its terrain parks and its kind of a let down. You get all pumped for the season like 4 months in advance and you large amounts of $$$ for a season pass and they cant even open all of the parks in time. Well i guess that's East Coast Skiing for ya... Anyone else on the east coast having the same problem?

 
this has been a problem in the past for us here in PA but this has been one of the best seasons in awhile. close to record snowfall and been pretty consistently cold
 
Stowe is killing it and got all their parks open well before previous years. Not to mention they're bigger and better than ever before.
 
7 Springs is your home mountain and you are complaining about this?? I havn't been there but it looks like springs has been killing it all season from what I've see.
 
Yup, went to Stratton for the first time this season yesterday and they were really fun, Mt. Snow has like 7 or 8 parks open right now, more snow on the way for Thursday as well so it's looking pretty solid for VT.
 
Okemo has plenty of snow (mid vt) but for some reason still has the smallest jumps in the world set up in the "super"park. i hope other mountains have bigger jumps
 
Cannon didn't get their big park open until about a week and a half ago. I don't really ski much park and it's not really what Cannon's known for, but I can imagine some people got frustrated.
 
I certainly was. I'm out for the season now so its a real bummer because I didn't get to ski it at all
 
I can't see how this should be a problem for anyone on the east this season. At BC we've got our medium park at full width for the first time in 4 years. We were over a month ahead of last years snow making by the end of December. Even with the 5 consecutive weekends of rain this season has been great so far.
 
Mr. Troll,

The terrain parks in New jersey and the Catskills are doing great!

Last I looked, Killi had 80+ features.

Your NS peer,

-benedetto
 
I live in jersey and ski mountain creek

the resort got brought by some owner 3 years ago

and the park has gone so downhill sense

3 years ago i like the park better than anyones in a 100 mile raduis

(one of the best jump lines on the east coast)

now jumps are smaller no professial jump

course like usually and double the amount of rails

i would rather drive three hours to stratton then

deal there only bieng one good jump. it just snow 2 feet in week

and still jump line is horrible.
 
Even New York has been killing it. Whiteface has a full top to bottom park run from the Face Quad and Mount Jore has a huge kicker that they built at the bottom of Wild Air that just opened this past weekend (I don't know the actual size of it because I haven't been there to see it in person).
 
Okemo is taking their sweet ass time with the big park. Shoulda been done weeks ago but they add a little bit every few days. At least we'll have it done in time for spring skiing...
 
It is on point now. It took them a while to get the bottom jumps in LMP built but they did a real good job. The only thing not open is the pipe.
 
When your snowmaking for your park looks like this you better.
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@OP if you're talking about 7 Springs then you must be joking. The spot was fully built in mid-January (sure, maybe not open due to comps, but it was completed) which I think is the earliest it ever has been.
 
Over the years I feel okemo has definitely been a letdown as far as parks go. They are my home mountain but they have only a few jumps and a pretty crappy hike park with small features.
 
stowe didnt have tyro open til february last year because of some bullshit race training which was part of my decision to go to sugarbush this year. so off course they got it open earlier this year

and to the person who mentioned mount jore: that kicker is hilarious. it is pretty big probably about 40 feet but jesus its built so horribly. mad respect to anyone hucking off that thing because the table is just designed so poorly. no fucking landing whatsoever and the takeoff has like 3 different pitches
 
The only reason it doesn't seem that 7springs isn't opening all of there parks is because they dumped close to a $1,000,000 to build the SPOT for the US open. This weekend everything will be dope.
 
I'm pretty bad at judging distances but here are my guesses. In LMP the first two on the right-hand side are like 15' and 20'. Then there are three on the left, probably 20', 25', and 30'. After that there are four more on the left, probably 35', 40', 45', and 55'. They are super fun.
 
I suppose for this thread, I would be the one to ask huh? At least regarding New England. It did seem to take a good bit longer this year for parks to get beyond medium features from what I saw, but you start with small features and build up, not the other way around. The one standout for an unacceptable park was Cannon. By the end of January they had like 5-6 features total. At that point in New England why are you even bothering? The season is already half over.
 
LOL I wouldn't be surprised. Laughable for jore to ever get mentioned in any serious park discussion. Gore had a good park 15+ years ago compared to other places. They had built a halfpipe by then, and had sleighride top to bottom with booters(back when it went all the way to 3b).

The thing with gore is you have to just take it for what it is, for better or generally worse and realize nothing is going to change. If you expect nothing it can be decent. If you have any expectations it's going to be rough.

Also on that note I'd rather hit a perfectly build small jump than a ghetto jump with a size claim.
 
Hasn't the east been getting slammed? Whats the problem? I mean if your below MA I understand why your not getting any snow. I figure most of you southerners are used to a 2 or 1.5 month season in general.

Pretty sure a few weeks ago my home mtn in MA had record snow totals for the east.
 
where I am it has been snow followed by rain every time it has snowed this year up until this last storm. I didnt have any snow at home on the ground even though we were on track to have a better than average snow year in Massachusetts.

That being said, it still hasn't affected the mountains I've been to this year from having a park set up. I stopped going to Wachusett after they would wait until late January to open anything up years ago.
 
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