Stupid park crew stories.

[milk_man]

The park crew at my hill is pretty chill. They never get that mad even if you're hitting the park when they're building it, they just tell you not to.

 

[.R-Lohin]

We leave rails on the side of the trail all the time because there isn't much space where we store rails so getting different ones out is a pain in the ass so we will just leave them along the side until we want it back in. Management hates it and it looks like shit, but it takes a few hours out of build time.

Thats not the point why take it out of its spot if it still could have been used in the original spot for the next rebuild and they didnt plan on using it at all for the rest ofthe season. My mtn has tons of rails in a pile that only saw use once or not used at all haha just a shame to look at all that delicous jib buried under heeps of snow

 

[JamesO]

You don't know bad park crew until youve skied the 500 ft vertical converted landfill ski resorts of the midwest... I hit a box that tipped over, went to the "park crew" (stoned lifty opperating the tow rope), who gave me a shovel and said "Ok."

you wouldnt have happened to be at tyrol basin, Wisconsin? because thats what it sounds like

 

[Prof.Pretzel]

OP is also a huge dumb asshole

 

[BabyRoy]

Every few weeks my park crew breaks a rail by running it over with a groomer. It pissed me off because they broke my favorite rail this past season.

 

[theabortionator]

Every few weeks my park crew breaks a rail by running it over with a groomer. It pissed me off because they broke my favorite rail this past season.

Is it the park crew or is it the random old dude at your mountain that hates terrain parks and grooming around the stupid rails?

I've seen both but I would hope park crew would care enough to change up the strategy if rail after rail is getting smoked by the cat.

 

[kylemclean]

Thats not the point why take it out of its spot if it still could have been used in the original spot for the next rebuild and they didnt plan on using it at all for the rest ofthe season. My mtn has tons of rails in a pile that only saw use once or not used at all haha just a shame to look at all that delicous jib buried under heeps of snow

mine does the same thing but leaves them almost right under the chair so everyone can see them

 

[SnowshoeThompson]

Every few weeks my park crew breaks a rail by running it over with a groomer. It pissed me off because they broke my favorite rail this past season.

Every few weeks?! Somebody either needs to be taken out of the park or park crew needs to dig out/mark their features better when it snows. An operator that cant maneuver around obstacles has no place in a snow cat IMO. Rails are not cheap!

 

[TOAST.]

Every few weeks?! Somebody either needs to be taken out of the park or park crew needs to dig out/mark their features better when it snows. An operator that cant maneuver around obstacles has no place in a snow cat IMO. Rails are not cheap!

Small mountains get what they pay for as far as grooming goes. A lot of time farmers or other equipment operators that have never skied and don't care.

 

[Jibberino]

Everyone's a fuckin expert! Show some respect for the park crew, and if something seems odd, just ask and I'm sure most people will give you a reason why a rail is on the side, or some of the other shit you're whining about. It could be broken, it could be waiting to get used in another spot etc.

To the person who talked about rail after rail getting wrecked by the cat driver, my experience tells me that even the best cat drivers will break rails every now and then, and even very often sometimes.

Worked with the old rail boss from Mammoth this season, and I've never seen anyone break so many rails. He is by far the best cat driver I've ever worked with, but basically he didn't give a fuck. He didn't have to fix the rails, so he didn't care. And we had everything we had set up, so every time he broke something, it was one less hit in our respective lines. Good cat drivers do sometimes tend to develop a rather large ego, and rails seem to be the first thing that suffers when that happens.

 

[SnowshoeThompson]

He is by far the best cat driver I've ever worked with, but basically he didn't give a fuck. He didn't have to fix the rails, so he didn't care. And we had everything we had set up, so every time he broke something, it was one less hit in our respective lines. Good cat drivers do sometimes tend to develop a rather large ego, and rails seem to be the first thing that suffers when that happens.

well it's obvious you haven't worked with very many "cat drivers"

 

[Eric_Jewan]

There's a lady at COP who will spend half an hour raking besides the rails, after doing the lip and landing. We can never figure out why she does it but it's frustrating as hell.

Ya I ski there too, and I know exactly what your talking about! She closes the rails for like 30 minutes just to fucking rake the sides!