Big Sky's Park

closing weekend...

flat down box still not set up?

Side kink rail (or down flat, or flat down depending on setup_ still not set up?

multiple features never even moving from their original set point?

good work big sky park crew, killin it yet again
 
Josh, why would you ski park today? The upper mountain was amazing, and there were floods of gaper families cruising through the park today.
 
I saw some dude on EPs skiing WAY in the backseat... through the Swifty park... and even HE could do sweet tricks off the rollers.
 
i think it might have been some sort of park rat diss as in "go learn to ski somewhere out side the park dumb ass" or something along those lines, but i dont know he wasnt really that clear in his insult making it ineffective.
 
Its unfortunate you couldnt enjoy the slushy perfect park because you were too busy worrying about 2 features. See you next season, douche bag
 
If you could not have fun in the park this year...then you are a idiot. Look what park crew had to work with. Shitty trail under the lift with NO snowmaking. A park with no snowmaking...that's ridiculous these days. Not to mention dealing with Big Sky's management. The park last year had better flow then the old ambush parks ever did. Hell you probably even had more air time off the jumps this year compared to the high speed skimmers that were built on ambush. Yes I agree, a lot of the time the jumps were not on point, but look where they had to be built.

It sucks but this is the park scene in Montana right now. Until Big Sky feels that the park will help fill there hotels with family's from Florida there not going to put any effort in to it. I mean come on their whole "behold" campaign was such a joke to us locals. You guys are complaining about a flat/down box not being put in? Haha you got to be kidding me. Big Sky had park crew busting ass closing week on something they feel actually brings in money....the pond skim. I worked 4 years on the crew. It was really frustrating doing these silly events that Big Sky was really into like sno-bar. Then when we wanted cat time and other resources to work on the park, there was no help at all.

I had so many good pow days this year with all the snow we got. The park was real fun on the few sunny days we had. I rode some other parks this spring including Squaw's. Squaw's park has new management and now it sucks, big skys was way better. Tyrel is probably moving onto better things next winter. Without his drive to have a decent park...it could really go to shit.
 
I mean come on. Your telling me you would go to breck or mammoth and put hot laps through the bigger parks? Yes there jumps are built way better, but if your not comfortable on big sky's 20 footers, hitting real decent sized jumps is kinda a shock. I do it every spring. Takes me a day to actually get used to being in the air.

I'm done. Drank a lot of coffee this morning.
 
nobody is pointing fingers at the park crew. Its mostly managements "fault" but the point is, Big Sky, as a huge destination resort, should have a better park. Right next door, at Moonlight, with "no snowmaking" there is a fantastic park.

Hopefully next year the park pass system gets implemented. That will fix a big issue.
 
I only skied it a few days, but I was pretty impressed with the upkeep it sees given the lack of traffic it receives. Speed was an issue on the triple jump line sometimes, but I'd rather have decently big jumps that you need to land clean and straightline into to clear than small jumps you can wash landings on and still hit the next. Although it's unlikely that it'll ever happen, I really wish they'd build a 50+ ft. jump. It's pretty ironic how my 250 vert midwest hill has a 65 ft. booter and Big Sky, weighing in at almost 4000 vert, didn't have a jump above 25ish. I'd definitely support a park pass in the future to give a bit more funding and legitimacy to the park, while keeping little kids off the landings of the jumpline.
 
The official stance of BOYNE is that big jumps pose unnecessary liability risk because of heightened injury severity (more death/paralysis). So all Boyne resorts, including Big Sky, have literal insurance limitations on what kind of freestyle terrain can be used.
 
Yeah I definitely understand their reasoning. The 65 footer at my home hill is only for our ski team, which has its own insurance plan just for the jumpsite. I'm just dreaming...
 
Here is a dream for you. Park pass system, Jumpline moved to top of park, where it is steeper. Summer mounds for quarter/hips. om nom.
 
eh big skys park is better than moonlights. and moonlight does have snowmaking.
what exactly do you kids want from bigskys park. I love that park and i spent the whole first half of the season living in colorado where the parks are big and perfect and i can comfortably say that i have more fun shredding the bigsky park than i did shredding keystones. call me crazy but the park at bigsky had perfect flow, was set up flawless every day unless it snowed over a foot, it had a good variety and was pretty long.
all in all it could be better but right now they do really well with what they got.
so stop bitching.
 
For the record, I had tons of fun in the park this year. I enjoyed it. But I suppose what I'm mainly disappointed in is how the features rarely changed. I dunno. Variety kinda helps mix it up ya know? I understand that upper management is the main problem, but a little more variety in Swifty would be cool (2.0 switched a lot. Loved it).
 
I find it hard to believe that you actually enjoy skiing big sky's park more than keystone/breck parks. And moonlights park was in no way worse than big sky's. They consistently had more features set up, and set up as good or better than big skys. Along with having multiple down rails, down flats, flat bars, and all the normal stuff they had really interesting, sometimes goofy, shit set up throughout the park too. Overall moonlights park was just maintained better throughout the season always having more features and changing the park up every few weeks which is something big sky really slacked on.
And although closing weekend i had a great time skiing big sky i definitely had to spend most of my time over at moonlight because their closing weekend park was off the chain, big sky had no jump as big as moonlights closing weekend and the rails were set up huge. I am not hating on the park crew at big sky at all because i don't know the situation with management and stuff over there, so they may be making the sickest park they can given their restrictions with that and snowmaking but it seems that moonlight really was better all year
 
flow is a huge deal to me when it comes to a park and bigskys had perfect flow. Moonlights park is usually really scattered and things are placed randomly. its really frustrating when two awesome features are set up next to each other and you have to chose and thats what happens in moonlights park.
 
yea it kinda is, its like picking a fight without actually having to get your ass kicked.
but when you think about it, it doesnt really matter how much fun you have and where you have it the only thing that matters is that your having fun skiing and thats all the people on this site should really care about.
 
haha, thought about posting that but decided it was too politically incorect, thank you for bieng more bold than me. but back to to the moral of the story. If your not having fun skiing than you probalby shouldnt be skiing. doesnt matter where you are or what the conditions are it is always going to be better than bieng in school or work, so even if things could be better(big skys park, or any park for that matter) they could always be worse so dont take it for granted.
 
Whoa this thread blew up haha.

I too wasnt trying to point fingers at park crew. I know how much of their time gets wasted earlier in the year setting up ice-bar, and later in the year on the pond skim. And i agree, park this year was phenomenal for the most part. The jumps were iffy, but thats fine, what else are they gonna be on a run that awful. But the rails were on point. I just get bummed when i see fun features sitting on the side, but again, i think park crew did a damn good job this year. Oh and wed better get that hip at the bottom again next year, that thing was unbelievably fun.

Semi related, are we having a park pass system next year? I heard rumors of it during the season, but nothing else.
 
all that i know is big skys park crew is really damn friendly and they do an awesome job. love the way the features are set up and coming from fucking great divide there are so many features that are so good to progress on and try new tricks. its when i go to big sky that i always learn something new. every feature is set up so well. and the jumps when you can get speed for them are really poppy and fun. bottom line is big skys park is pretty fucking great i would say. if you are trying you can find something wrong or that needs improvement with just about any park in the world. and coupled with the terrain at big sky its an amazing place to ski and im damn stoked to be spending my season there next year.
 
The bottom line is that if you think big sky's park sucked this year, you suck. At skiing. An easy way to tell which park is better is to watch where the best skiers go. They arent hitting some dumb fuck double rainbow box, they are hitting legit shit in a legit park. I'm the best skier in Montana, I should know.
 
Actually, it looks like Bibs was giving me gnar points? Is that like an assist gnar callout? I don't even know... And lol bibs. I suck. Especially in the park.

Stoked for the season though. Probably gonna go ski opening day

Nov. 24 = my birthday = opening day at Big Sky = Thanksgiving day.

EPIC!!!
 
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