TBH kings is a decently terrible place for a park. One, it's on the lower mountain, so it gets slushy earlier in the year (refer to jonseys in 2008, in april its not a slush pile like kings/pick) and takes lower temps to make snow. Two, its a terrible run to make snow on, so much of the snow gets blown into town/into the trees, ive spoken with many of the snowmakers, previous and current, they say kings is insanely inefficient. Three, the pitch isnt that great. Its pretty flat at the top and the end there's a 90 degree turn and its steep as fuck. This creates longer inruns for large jumps, steeper rail setups at the end of the run and the upper features can be more difficult to hit when it's slushy due to the flat pitch/lack of speed. Fourth, kings is a terrible venue for a slopestyle event, spectators can't even watch from course, its a tiny little corral at the bottom. Having the Grand Prix in pick n shovel is 100 times easier for people to spectate.
That aside, the years of 3pack/4pack jumps on kings were the fucking shit. Also, if anyone wants to bitch about a park it should be about how they took jonseys out, that was the most legit spot for a park, period.
This isn't really a #fuckvail situation either, it actually has nothing to do with vail. The new park manager used to be the head park groomer, the head builder is still the same guy and i know a lot of the same crew is going back.
Like Theron said, there will be 5-6 parks spread around pc (canyons). Im excited to see what the park city builders can do over on the canyons side.
