PsychicMigration
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Title says it all. I feel like Carinthia is definitely a possibility.
Most over rated parks on the east coast
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Johngreenacre
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Not carinthia.
Killington
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PsychicMigration
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13978463:pinkcamo1000 said:
This is very true more resorts need to drop some bucks and add rope tows, t-bars and some small high speed quads so you can actually enjoy how nice the park is at places like loon.
Curious to see peoples thoughts as a long time east coast local.
Seems harder to find overrated parks than just shitty parks though.
Seems harder to find overrated parks than just shitty parks though.
edai
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13978622:theabortionator said:
Yea definitely harder, only resort that comes to mind would be like Sunday River, but that was only really during their Dumont Cup stint and I'm not sure anybody thought the park was any good anyways.
Oh yea and fucking Ski Sundown. Everybody in CT knows of it because it's where Lupe grew up, but they only build ride on lips to features and their parks flow is pretty wack. Honestly not the park builders fault though, just a funky trail for a park. If you want the real shit in CT, gotta go to Mt. Southington
I feel like sometimes too the only things overrated are local. You don't hear the hype outside of the local loop most of the time in that region. Most people don't even know that 3/4 of those mountains exist.
PsychicMigration
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13978622:theabortionator said:
That’s definitely true I find places like loon from above and carinthia are good parks but the way the axis to them is set up is poor. Same at killington although I can’t really judge because I only skied one day park there. In my mind there’s not really a bad park as much as there are over rated ones.
13978698:bike.life.beck said:
I feel like there are many more overrated mountains than parks. There are def overrated mountains but not so much, and not always widely known.
I meant overrated parks instead of mountains on the second part but I'm tired af because wtf is sleep.
SofaKingSick
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You spoiled brat, go to your room
Carinthia is sick! They've got six thousand features and all kinds of different zones. Long small-medium park, wood rail park, gulch by itself would be a sick medium park almost anywhere, and inferno is literally a dew tour level park (at least it was last time I hit it)
What would you even want to add? They're only missing long technical rails but fuck man so is everyone else
Carinthia is sick! They've got six thousand features and all kinds of different zones. Long small-medium park, wood rail park, gulch by itself would be a sick medium park almost anywhere, and inferno is literally a dew tour level park (at least it was last time I hit it)
What would you even want to add? They're only missing long technical rails but fuck man so is everyone else
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13978763:SofaKingSick said:
I’m not saying it’s a bad bad park, I love to rip it when I can. I’m saying most parks are by themselves without looking at the lifts and access are all good, as long as they have something I’m happy, I just hate waiting 15 min to go hit it again. I think I’m biased towards lifts in this case because I think that a park should be made up of a junction of rope tows and t-bars that make up a specific section of the park. This is how my local hill works and it would help to keep them in sections so there’s still flow. People would find there niche and stick to it and progressively work there way down the mountain but being able to get a shot at features 10+ times. This would also kill any wait time on the weekends and long lift rides. Most smaller mountains have setups that work but places like killington and carinthia get overrun. In my opinion both have great parks but I get like 1 lap an hour on each and there’s no rythem if your practicing a line a few choice Features. I may know nothing here but I think the way you acces the park and how fast and to what sections of large parks is crucial.
13978802:Peterkrekorian said:
Never thought I'd see the day that parks are "too long" and should be smsllers hills with rope tows. Sounds like you'd dig the midwest where you can probably see every feature on the hill from the rope tow.
Sure with Carinthia its a long lap but saying theres no rhythm is crazy. Some people are hard to please. Jesus, I remember having to spend half the dsy building jumps so we had something to hit. A couple times a year going to a mtn that actually had a park, sometimes 1 that had a few rails.
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Now a fully stacked mtn section with multiple parks and 2 decicated lifts isnt good enough.
Carinthia is overrated in the sense that it'sthe only place to so many people. People forget about other mtns. In terms of the parks and what they build, hard to say its overrated as its one of the top parks for sure. Maybe not your jam (for whatever reason) overrated? Probably not
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13978814:theabortionator said:
I agree, wouldn’t say it’s to big I do dig smaller setups for some reason. I think I like smaller because I can lap the same 4 features at my local hill. I guess you correct over rated is not the best term for it I just didn’t know what else I would call it from my perspective.
Titus69
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Lol OP just wants to diss Carinthia, son I skied there for 3 years and now ski Park City, theyre both pretty equal to me and sometimes id say carinthia is better. As said earlier, theres less overrated parks and more shitty ones, if you pay attention to people they usually hype up sugarbush, carinthia, killi, WV and Loon its cause theyre the only parks to rave about.
bruispringsteen
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13978463:pinkcamo1000 said:
Honestly I cant think of a single Loon local who shares that thought ahaha, the gond is a solid home away from home and I love having a park lap that lets you slash on the way there instead of just a single run
a_pla5tic_bag
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You're all out of your mind. Mountain creek, NJ is 1000 steps below anything you have in vermont/anything north of here. To call anything up that way bad in any way shape or form means nothing until you call down here your home hill. I just went skiing yesterday at Blue in PA and it's 100% man made and only half the slopes are opened.
SofaKingSick
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13978839:SkiBum. said:
You can't make a screwball claim like this without giving examples? Or explaining further
Titus69
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13979091:SkiBum. said:
I mean on a busy day yea it's a shit show, you seem to be getting this shit mixed up cause it's the flocks of Jerry's from NY who cant ski in general going through the parks. You seem to have a problem with the people without any argument on how the parks are.
PsychicMigration
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13979094:Titus69 said:
This is definitely true, however the people make the place to an extent as well.
13979094:Titus69 said:
No, not the idiot tourists from NY. The mountain, company, and how its run. It is a shit show. I am amazed they are still in business. One more EB5 funny money hickup and they will be with Jay Peak.
I am spinning my wheels here. You all just keep jumping and jibbing away.
Obie.
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13979112:SkiBum. said:
Wow, I just see you hated on the Canyons calling it a mess too— pretty much verbatim on what you’re saying now. You sound like a giant douche. Do you have fun skiing? Because it definitely doesn’t sound like it.
I’ll ski by you with my buds @ Carinthia having a good time while you’re complaining about why the lips aren’t painted with dye.
13979091:SkiBum. said:
If the kid going there has no idea "how stuff works" because any of your problems are unrelated to parks, then how does it become overrated as as a park?
Thread title is "most overrated park" not "where did the evil mtn corporation touch you".
Personally I don't know much about the inner workings of the resort, but have been to the mountain dozes of times. Hell for a few years we were riding rails in the pipe till june. Different mountains have different styles, some people will prefer another mtn, but for park you can't say it's not pretty sick.
There are places I think that have gotten overshadowed by the carinthia hype, but it's still a solid set of parks.
Kinda bummed when they mentioned that the new lodge wouldn't have a mini ramp.
SofaKingSick
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13979091:SkiBum. said:
Mm thanks, that second helping of vague condescension explained it perfectly for me
edai
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13978883:Lemuel said:
haha is this Pete? You taught me how to hit rails switch, good to hear from you dog. Southington's setup will get better with more snow, they've got some bigger features tucked away. Duane Bass is the GM now I'm not sure if you heard about that, hoping it could be good for the park, he's always been pretty stoked on it
ButteredToast.
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13978494:Peterkrekorian said:
I wish rope tows would die already and T-bars take their rightful place as the replacement. So tired of shredding my gloves on rope tows. I won't even ride our small terrain park just to avoid the rope tow... I'm kind of a wuss
PsychicMigration
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13979318:ButteredToast. said:
You just use work gloves they cost 5$ and you can put liners in them which is plenty warm.
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13978463:pinkcamo1000 said:
I love the gondola. On a quiet weekday, hot lapping it and getting some groomer cruising in along with park laps is tough to beat. Plus, it's warm, and, although I don't personally like to smoke and ski, it's much easier in there.
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13980084:BenWhit said:
I do enjoy that and they still build springboard but god that quad is slow.
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13980094:BenWhit said:
It’s much faster then the gondola. If they got a few tows or t-bars it would be a few hundred times better. If they wanted to throw a high speed in that goes to the top of lmp it would service both and be super nice although that would cost a lot.
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13980461:BenWhit said:
That’s definitely valid.