Rail Color???
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KungKalmar
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My favorite are purple and pink. I hate brown rails, black are not my favorite either. I want to see some color
weastcoat
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I think it’s sick when hills incorporate local sports teams or “city colors”. Obviously not applicable to all hills but mine for example, 7 springs. All the rails are black and yellow, including some gray ones that are more street style (electrical boxes, jersey barriers, etc.). But mainly black and yellow for the Pirates, Steelers, and Penguins, as well as the city’s flagship bridge / architectural color of choice. When they had the Streets (street style park) some of the features were designed to mimic some of the skyscrapers in downtown PGH which was pretty sick.
I know park budgets are increasingly limited year after year but would be sick to see parks draw more inspiration from local cities’ architecture, landmarks, or even famous street spots. I know Woodward PC tried to design some of their rails based on the ones at rail gardens in SLC, incredibly sick stuff.
I know park budgets are increasingly limited year after year but would be sick to see parks draw more inspiration from local cities’ architecture, landmarks, or even famous street spots. I know Woodward PC tried to design some of their rails based on the ones at rail gardens in SLC, incredibly sick stuff.
BallClapper
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Only ride black rails. Better be thick too.
STEEZUS_CHRI5T
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Resorts need to start incorporating white rails
ski_salmon69
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I like how Mt Hood, Sugarbush, and Sugarloaf all have the same color scheme with the blue and orange
I'd say probably black but not sure. Lot of blue, green red out there too.
It's a sort of branding though. You paint all your rails a color and build cool shit and people know it's you without even seeing a logo.
I remember I got this sick purple( I paid for) and painted all the rails at west one season the same. Also did all the rail maintenance that they'd needed for years. Place was kind of a dumpster fire and only did the one season there. But the next year some of the jabronis they had working there painted everything black because they thought it was cool.
Brand recognition is everything. Purple might not be your favorite color, or what you buy a car in but nobody had it in the region. Mt snow and BB ran black as well as some other mountains. Killington was green at the time before switching to woodward brand colors.
Idk, I guess I think too much about it but brand recognition is everything. Wild some places can't figure that out. Depending on the time of year and the color, and style of the setup you can be pretty sure where somebody is skiing without seeing a logo. Like seeing blue rails right now you think perisher. Seeing big pink rails in the northern winter you think mammoth. Some colors I like more than others, but having something unique to your region and running with it is everything.
I don't like the 2 tone rails as much as one solid or a black + 1 color rail though. Just a personal opinion.
I've spent way too much time looking at mountains rails lolol.
It's a sort of branding though. You paint all your rails a color and build cool shit and people know it's you without even seeing a logo.
I remember I got this sick purple( I paid for) and painted all the rails at west one season the same. Also did all the rail maintenance that they'd needed for years. Place was kind of a dumpster fire and only did the one season there. But the next year some of the jabronis they had working there painted everything black because they thought it was cool.
Brand recognition is everything. Purple might not be your favorite color, or what you buy a car in but nobody had it in the region. Mt snow and BB ran black as well as some other mountains. Killington was green at the time before switching to woodward brand colors.
Idk, I guess I think too much about it but brand recognition is everything. Wild some places can't figure that out. Depending on the time of year and the color, and style of the setup you can be pretty sure where somebody is skiing without seeing a logo. Like seeing blue rails right now you think perisher. Seeing big pink rails in the northern winter you think mammoth. Some colors I like more than others, but having something unique to your region and running with it is everything.
I don't like the 2 tone rails as much as one solid or a black + 1 color rail though. Just a personal opinion.
I've spent way too much time looking at mountains rails lolol.
a_burger
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14619000:ski_salmon69 said:
I have proof we did it first!!11!!
jk reality is the black and blue we used to do from like 2010-2021 just looked like garbage on iPhone clips which is what 90% of people in our parks were filming on (not to mention it's an even more common colorway), and orange and blue is our actual resort colors so when I saw it under like 8 coats of paint on one of our older rails it made a lot of sense to switch back to it. Timberline is more of a yellow or marigold and baby blue I'd say.
My favorite was probably the old Green/Purple at Okemo
**This post was edited on Jul 15th 2024 at 7:46:36pm
SteezyYeeter
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14619000:ski_salmon69 said:
yeah and there is a sugarbush double kink at hood in the summers which is pretty cool
ski_salmon69
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14619008:a_burger said:I have proof we did it first!!11!!
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jk reality is the black and blue we used to do from like 2010-2021 just looked like garbage on iPhone clips which is what 90% of people in our parks were filming on (not to mention it's an even more common colorway), and orange and blue is our actual resort colors so when I saw it under like 8 coats of paint on one of our older rails it made a lot of sense to switch back to it. Timberline is more of a yellow or marigold and baby blue I'd say.
My favorite was probably the old Green/Purple at Okemo
**This post was edited on Jul 15th 2024 at 7:46:36pm
Incredible hulk ahh rail
dwt802
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14619008:a_burger said:I have proof we did it first!!11!!
View attachment 1094912
jk reality is the black and blue we used to do from like 2010-2021 just looked like garbage on iPhone clips which is what 90% of people in our parks were filming on (not to mention it's an even more common colorway), and orange and blue is our actual resort colors so when I saw it under like 8 coats of paint on one of our older rails it made a lot of sense to switch back to it. Timberline is more of a yellow or marigold and baby blue I'd say.
My favorite was probably the old Green/Purple at Okemo
**This post was edited on Jul 15th 2024 at 7:46:36pm
Does okemo have rails like this still? Last I was there was like 5 years ago but I feel like they had gone to blue and white by then. That old hulk scheme is so fire though
partyandBS
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idk about which is most popular but its certainly a brand thing to have the colors. woodward has the yellow at all their resorts. some resorts have rails matching the resort branding and others have the terrain parks having their own branding.
-breck is same color rails andbranding as the rest of their branding
-keystone has area51 that is a dying brand but its own none the less and the color ways are red and black as opposed to keystones red and white marketing (and apparently green on their website right now. looks like shit)
-winter park has railyard which is similar to a51 with its own branding but went with a sky blue and is distinctly different from any other branding (and different from trestle bike park which as well)
-mammoth has unbound but really leans on the same logo as the resort but you sure as shit know when a shot is filmed on that pink
i think there are advantages to all of these but as far as promoting your park goes, having the separate brand is preferred. it makes for more targeted marketing for both the regular brand and the park brand.
as i write this i think the shift i would like to see evolve the park branding into other aspects of the mountain that the core user would like and separate that from the new/family user group. so a ‘challenge’ branding if you will with park, big mountain, competitions, fat powder lines, etc. and the resort branding for families and ski school, etc. there would be a lot of cross over in both
-breck is same color rails andbranding as the rest of their branding
-keystone has area51 that is a dying brand but its own none the less and the color ways are red and black as opposed to keystones red and white marketing (and apparently green on their website right now. looks like shit)
-winter park has railyard which is similar to a51 with its own branding but went with a sky blue and is distinctly different from any other branding (and different from trestle bike park which as well)
-mammoth has unbound but really leans on the same logo as the resort but you sure as shit know when a shot is filmed on that pink
i think there are advantages to all of these but as far as promoting your park goes, having the separate brand is preferred. it makes for more targeted marketing for both the regular brand and the park brand.
as i write this i think the shift i would like to see evolve the park branding into other aspects of the mountain that the core user would like and separate that from the new/family user group. so a ‘challenge’ branding if you will with park, big mountain, competitions, fat powder lines, etc. and the resort branding for families and ski school, etc. there would be a lot of cross over in both
Farmville420
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14619025:dwt802 said:
Nah, they switched to some kind of forest green and black color scheme. Kinda lame but the parks still kinda bang so at least there's that
Farmville420
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I like Carinthias all black rails tbh, surprisingly rare to see. Personally fave is mammy tho because of how recognizable they are and also pink is a sick color
PartyBullshiit
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14619008:a_burger said:I have proof we did it first!!11!!
View attachment 1094912
jk reality is the black and blue we used to do from like 2010-2021 just looked like garbage on iPhone clips which is what 90% of people in our parks were filming on (not to mention it's an even more common colorway), and orange and blue is our actual resort colors so when I saw it under like 8 coats of paint on one of our older rails it made a lot of sense to switch back to it. Timberline is more of a yellow or marigold and baby blue I'd say.
My favorite was probably the old Green/Purple at Okemo
**This post was edited on Jul 15th 2024 at 7:46:36pm
Brule.
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When I grew up riding Mount Jore, the rails were always that weird forest green and black, sometimes yellow, but it wasn’t on every feature until recent. Same with Whiteface when they were slowly transitioning everything from black and yellow to black and navy blue. I just think ORDA made their mountains finally stick to a color scheme for the parks bc some rails stuck out like sore thumbs.
I ride Killington now, which ofc has the corporate-ass Woodward branding now, but god I miss the Killington green rails. Really made everything stand out compared to other mountains in the northeast.
I ride Killington now, which ofc has the corporate-ass Woodward branding now, but god I miss the Killington green rails. Really made everything stand out compared to other mountains in the northeast.
BallClapper
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Once you go black you never go back.
14618973:STEEZUS_CHRI5T said:
isaacwrong
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Parks scene was dead af there this year..some fire builds early on but they had so many features just chilling. Blackout had like a max of like 8 rails all season. It also makes no sense to have both parks side by side imo
14619031:Farmville420 said:
Farmville420
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14619049:isaacwrong said:
I'm ngl I don't even know what Blackout is but last time I was there (2ish years ago) they had a decent setup on Noreaster and a pretty fun rail yard setup next to the superpipe. T bar USASA course was also good and there were a couple features on Sel's, only thing I didn't check was Blind Faith (do they still build that?)
It was dead tho I was like one of 10 people in the park on a saturday
**This post was edited on Jul 16th 2024 at 1:03:26pm
1spliff2guinnies
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14619015:ski_salmon69 said:
How many people hat the balls to hit that Donkey Ledge on the left?
IntoTheVoid
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I be Picasso the way I be painting my pants with the colors of rails. So much falling, not a lot of success
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14619032:Farmville420 said:
For sure. People don't realize it's all about sticking out. I love mammy pink more than the blue. That's why I thought it was dumb when people painted over my purple skirting black trim at West because "Purple is lame" or something.
Also Sierra at tahoe is one of the few with purp and that scheme is sick.
I liked the old Squaw/ Alpine look but now they painted there's orange like King Vail which I think is a bullshit move. In a big park zone in a set of small towns, you should never copy an established place. Big L on Squaw/ Pallisades on that. Color scheme also used at loon primarily would be the most recognizable, but when you're in the same town it's kind of fucked. They're a few miles away from each other.
FaunaSkis
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The most typical colour of rail and box side panels for small parks in Europe is yellow or brown. This is because lots of parks looking to get a park without spending a lot on it use the standard sideboard colours from Scandinavian Shapers, probably the biggest supplier of rails and boxes in Europe.
