Terrain Parks

Prof.Pretzel

Prof.Pretzel

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Are skate park style terrain parks (ie.B&E park and Peace park style parks) the future of ski parks.

I really hope so looks like a tun of fun but realistically I don't think it will happen. At least not like how you see it in the B&E invitational and peace park style events, my home mountain has tried to put in more creative features and smaller skate park style stuff but nothing as committed to a skate park style design that you see in those two contests.

So what do you think NS?
 
To difficult to maintain to become popular at every resort. I can see more events like this happening at more mountains, but they wont last long after that.
 
Too much of a liability. Even the riders at B&E had some pretty sketchy hits and close calls on that course. I'm all for more creative features and the great flows that can come out of a B&E style setup, I just don't think its realistic for a public park.
 
ski patrol is not a fan of giant bowls because they can't get a sled out of them. Happened at my home mountain, we had something like last years b and e invitation with the two bowls at the bottom for a week or two (no halfpipe above it) and park crew had to knock down one side of it
 
Too sketch, can you imagine 10 people all trying to ski the B&E park all at once?

They're would be so many crashes and its not like people will wait for their turn because its not like it a 10 second wait to hit a jump, someone could keep going on the B&E course for a while,

Realistically no,

But it would be awesome
 
More creative features, yes. That's the future of the parks. Actually kind of the present now. As far as those kinds of setups, not so much. Lots and lots of handwork involved in building. Damn near impossible to maintain. Snow removal, melt freeze cycles, wear from riding, just isn't realistic. Likely to see more events like that though but for the most part a lot of them won't be maintained long term.
 
I was just skiing at Holiday Valley and they had a pretty awesome little snake half pipe bowl type thing set up. I think it was for some competition they had a little while back but it was pretty cool. Obviously not as extreme as b&e but it was probably the closest thing I have ever skied. Lots of spine transfers, hip jumps, and quarter pipes, along with a rail or two all leading down to a cool little bowl at the bottom. It would be a real fun thing to hike for an afternoon.
 
13368130:w_skier said:
ski patrol is not a fan of giant bowls because they can't get a sled out of them. Happened at my home mountain, we had something like last years b and e invitation with the two bowls at the bottom for a week or two (no halfpipe above it) and park crew had to knock down one side of it
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At Windham they have a bowl and I legit had to wait 10 minutes for a gaper mom to drag her 3 year old out it (she fell back it about 8 times).
 
13368130:w_skier said:
ski patrol is not a fan of giant bowls because they can't get a sled out of them. Happened at my home mountain, we had something like last years b and e invitation with the two bowls at the bottom for a week or two (no halfpipe above it) and park crew had to knock down one side of it
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Ya good point like Tom Wallisch said during the B&E livestream it's definetly not FIS approved.
 
Honestly if you think about all the blind spots in a skatepark like set up combined with inexperienced skiers it would be a night mare in liability for the mountain and in safety for ski patrol, but hey I mean parks now have crazy features that we didn't think would exist 10 years ago so who knows.
 
the allsnow set up at Mount Snow is like that. its awesome except for the fact that its hard for them to groom and once it gets cut up, its impossible to get speed.

super fun but not entirely worth the effort to maintain.
 
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