I skid at Brighton today

Lofe

Lofe

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I skid at Brighton today. It was my first day there since they opened. There were many jibs, mini rocks, and snowboarders, one of whom was my good friend and also drove me up the big cottonwood that afternoon. We shredded the entire open part of the mountain. After sketchily releasing for seemingly no reason, my binding held tight and i was able to ski-jib my way across the mountain amongst the snowboarding horde. Dropping in way too fast over weird rolling speed bumps I meandered into My-Oh-My, where Brighton, during peak season, has a small 3 pack of flat-ish jumps that are good for regular spins up to 540 and front flips. Currently, there are no jumps, instead you are treated with sketchy flat-ish rollers with landings made of rock, ruts, and ice. Hooking the flat traverse into Candyside (and reliving my 'Head For The Hills' tree-squeeze dreams) I was rewarded with a jump onto a barrell on its side, a random box with seemingly no purpose, and then a red box that was actually pretty fun with a decent ollie-step on approach. From then you pick between the traverse from rocky-treeroot hell and a decent lefting groomer that is fun to ski backwards. Finally near the flats at the bottom there is a mini-jib playground. Personally I found it really funny because mini-jibs are kind of like that, you know, difficult to take seriously because you know soon there will be a real park and some actual order to all this pre-season chaos. Amongst all the no-jump features there was one box that the skiers seemed to actually like. I remember a kid in a nuggets jersey and not much else from that point. I will say lift service pre-season at Brighton is best enjoyed with PBR.
 
Its fun for early season. The roller run to the right of My-Oh-My is dope as fuck, learned hand drags on the bottom one. All those skiers hiking the flat box in Majestic were driving me crazy though..
 
the rails were set up so close up there...so where all you guys were standing was basically the landing of the other box and rail . and made linking the rail or box to that flat box a lil tough.

its understandable though, you didn't have to buy a ticket.
 
Word, thats what Im sayin. I have no problem with hiking shit for free, more power to you. I saw you guys do some pretty sick shit. But when the setup is so cramped, it makes flowin a lil' difficult. Nahmeen?
 
super fun! especially the skinny flat box that we all seem to know and love

but i would recommend bringing out the rock skis, sheeeeets a bit rough
 
i really don't understand the park at brighton...why are they always taking out rails to just reset them the same way the next day? and also why so damn early? shit was being taken down at like 2 today.
 
oh and I remember someone saying that they have to take stuff out every night so that their groomers can go right over everything and they have to build everything up by hand... which explains why it is so horrible. they really need to use the cats to build some features.
 
From what I hear, the cat drivers at Brighton fucking suck. They have to keep taking out the rails because the cat drivers will run over them. Good cat drivers are so key to building a good park.
 
It would also be awesome to have a jump rather than a ton of snow for a shitty halfpipe. And it would be most awesome if Park City would open.
 
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