NW events, and me bitching and griping about them

NoTeefa

NoTeefa

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I just took a look around the major washington, oregon and Idaho ski area's website. Just wanted to scope out what everyone had planned for the year as far as park events goes. I am terribly terribly disappointed, I only saw two events out of the whole region that I'm even mildly interested in doing. Everybody's going all grassroots and doing "series", or just giving out sweatshirts for prizes. What happened to having some big crazy weekend, giving out some bigtime cash, and seriously trying to attract some pro level talent, film companies, media exposure, etc?

This shit drives me crazy because I really really love competing, but every competition I went to last year was run very poorly, or had a bad course or whatever. Vegetate pipe being the exception, vegetate big air goes under the "bad course" category. Mt Seymour YGO had a shitty course (and weather, but that's nobody's fault) Schweitzer reign deer games had shitty course and was run HORRIBLY, those people are retards. And don't even get me started on the boneheads at Stevens "hey, you won first place in our undervert gay pipe of death for skiers, now heres a Ride snowboards sweatshirt! thanks for coming! oh, and check out our slopestyle next week, there's going to be one 20 foot flat rail in the course with three small jumps and a gay flat hip of icy pain! 2nd gets some sunglasses!". Even the WSI stompede was a fucking joke! a one legged retard would've been able to tell you that that area was too fucking flat to build a decent course.

FUCK!

Somebody needs to step up and let me organize an event for them, *cough* Timberline! *cough*

anyways, DISCUSS!
 
thats deep man. but you left out the world superpipe qualifier at bachelor.. there were pro's there, i skied with mike riddle for a bit, and watched him grab the $1000 dollar cash prize, and qualify for the championships in CO.
 
bachelor needs to bring back the big air this year

and timberline basically has nothing, the one exception being the burton abominable snow jam in june which is snowboard only

lets get some big events!
 
I agree wholeheartedly, although I like my events small and grassroots so that I have a better chance of winning.

Apparently every spring T-Line hosts a park-cutting camp where terrain park builders from all over go up and build a bunch of jumps and shit... and then no one gets to hit them. I told their marketing dude to turn it into an event and he seemed fairly interested. At any rate, T-Line is hopefully going to be getting involved with NS next spring, so we can get our foot in the door and maybe help them plan something cool.

 
I've been bugging them a bunch too, trying to get involved just a little bit in that side of things, quite a big jump for a brew pub employee though.

Keep bugging them, hopefully they'll get a fucking clue

It would be rad to see a big dope slopestyle comp go down in the spring up there, they could do it cheap too.

split people into age categories like 16&under, 17-21, 22&up then give away a summer season pass for first in each group, some schwag to the rest.

I'm pretty sure kids would jump on that opportunity
 
update to this:

After doing that little slopestyle at bachelor today and seeing how stoked some of the kids were on it, I see that there's definitly a place for contests like that.

but there's also a place for contests where they have a much higher level course and throw up a bunch of cash and try to get the best talent from the area to come out and bring media exposure etc..
 
if u cant get any of the mtns 2 do it... rent a bobcat, find a large section of open area thats downhill, build some jumps... get someone 2 sponser it... annd start ur own? or just go somewhere outta the northwest.
 
haha good idea cameron, but i have a feeling that the idea is way far fetched. and its surprising that our well known skiing area is so weak on the comps.
 
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