B-REAL 12/5

No word yet on night pipe.

here's the deal...cutting a quality superpipe takes some time and the best time to do it is between 4-7pm for many technical reasons related to snow consistency and temp. You also have to allow it several hours to "cure" otherwise it will crumble when riden.

option one: cut pipe at 4pm and its super sick for the next day.

option two: cut pipe at 9pm - it takes twice as long to cut because of snow conditions and it wont cure as hard. pipe will hold a decent shape for a few hours the next day but be total shit by the night session.

option three: cut pipe at 2pm and it will be sick and ridable by 6pm but total shit for the next day.

option four: cut pipe at 6am open by 10am. super sick for a few hours but it will crumble by mid day and be shit for night session.

bottomline is we will have a sick pipe whatever hours it ends up being open. we did not spend $300k on this new pipe for it to be crap half the time. it will get cut everynight..something that has never happend before at Boreal.

later skaters

ERic
 
My vote favors night riding right now so long as I prefer riding Alpine during the day. Is it possible that Boreal's park COULD get more wicked than Alpine as far as the size of features?!

**PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING CONCERNS HOW SICK ALPINE GETS**
 
god damnit, I only have a night pass. So basically I'll never get to ride pipe cause Alpine wont have on either. Basically what this means is that Eric will need to upgrade my pass for me to unlimited at boreal....PLEASE!!!
 
too bad boreal is so gapertastic that pipe will be over vert no matter when you shape it because of all the gomers riding half way up and sliding back down, if only alpine could actually fully embrace the park thing, they could be the best mountain in the tahoe area, but something seems to be holding them back...i'm guessing it has to do with upper management fools in their spandex onepieces worrying about these young jumper kids having too much fun doing their Xtreeme areal manuevers...oh well, maybe next year...with any luck they can double the season pass price again yeah that'd be sick!
 
I only plan on having 1 or 2 pro size features at Boreal. Alpines terrain is much better suited for those features and Jonahs behind the sticks they wont dissappiont. If you want pro sized features than Alpine is your place. If you want tons of fun jibs, smaller but still fun jumps and a good superpipe than Broreal is your joint.

Eric
 
no..way off on that assumption.

What is holding Alpine back is a lack of suitable terrain for park features. I've searched that mountain side to side and top to bottom and while there are some great potential park runs they happen to be the only intermediate access ways off the upper mountain and are high traffic highways..Red trail for example. Or Weasle the only beginer/intermidate area on the whole mountain and deadly over crowded as is. Or Sherwood but no snowmaking back there and in the sun melting all day.

The Roo is the only place where park can be left alone to do its thing. I fully beleive that the Roo can hold its own against any park in the country. I can't tell how many pros(mostly snowboard) who came to Alpine said that it was the most fun they had all season. Many a pro have listed Alpines park as their favorite in Bio's and interviews. Anyone see the cover of the new Snowboarder..David Benedek on a Roo Jump!

The Roo has alot more positves than people think: great pitch for a sick jump line, own lift, 8 minute hot laps, can see all your friends in the park from the lift....MINAMAL GAPER FACTOR!

ERic
 
eric boreals night pass is 99 dollars for seven nights a week correct?

then you have the midweek for 199. sun-friday riding, that includes nights RIGHT? (sat too?)

Thanks.
 
You've got a good point and there's nothing wrong with the park being on Kangaroo. What about adding a fun spring park pending snow condition to scott meadows on the lakeview lift. There aren't many gapers there. If the snows deep enough theres plenty of room to build a solid jump and rail line. It's got great exposer. Seems like a win-win situation as long as we get snow. Which seems to be a major issue. I'm just curios to see if it's even something that would be considered.
 
it would have to be up in alpine bowl or somewhere up high that still stays cold at night. anywhere on the lower mountain stays warm at night in the spring..those photo shoot jumps I built in may on the roo were damn near impossible to groom because of the soft snow..cant imagine what it would have been like with full park traffic.

Eric
 
scott meadows is high. It's almost as high as Alpine bowl. I'm talking about the area right next to the lake view lift.
 
one time i had a dream where i was hitting 60 foot booters down alpine bowl, hit 3 in a row, then went into a hidden tree haven and had a conference, then got back on my skis and hit the booters on rock garden down red trail.
 
one time i had a dream where i was hitting 60 foot booters down alpine bowl, hit 3 in a row, then went into a hidden tree haven and had a conference, then got back on my skis and hit the booters on rock garden down red trail.

^

Ya, You were dreaming. The park at Alpine will be as big as you want to go, period. I heard some 12 year old kid ask for a 50' gap to the flat box today at Alpine and we all laughed. Just chill out, when we get new snow there will be features for everybody. If everything goes right there will be park on the upper mountain, MAYBE! But that all depends on how crowded kangaroo WILL be.

So the more you buy tikets and ride the roo, the more park you might see growing up the hill, MAYBE
 
As for scott meadow, that is the flattest part of Alpine. If they were to put something there it would be for the gapesters. The sun hits it all day so it would be slow mush on takeoffs and landings. Plus you would either have to skate or walk back to the lift from the bottom of the meadow. I think the best run (not crowded)is terry's return to red green-ultraviolet to roo ridge, top to bottom. But there is some traversing involved.
 
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