Tow ropes
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snowfinder
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tow ropes < t-bars
Frenchmayo1287
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14514799:snowfinder said:
Bro whatchu smoking dawg
bandagedbrando
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fr, sick of waiting 20-30 minutes for a chair. Make tow ropes great again!
snowfinder
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14514823:Frenchmayo1287 said:
meth and weed, you?
snowfinder
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14514874:stone__ said:
To be fair I have never skied in the midwest, I've only skied at real mountains and they never have tow ropes just t-bars.
verynormalguy
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Ski bowl and mission ridge have a rope tow park. Heard mt. Ashland will be getting one soon. I never understood why there aren’t more out west, especially for smaller mountains that don’t have the staff to build and maintain big parks
hoodratz47
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Skibowls rope tows have been there for years. But skibowl in all fairness has been a very smart ski area. They were one of the first ever to have summer activities and they just converted one rope tow to a park. Very smart on their part
14514890:verynormalguy said:
I get it but places out west have chairlifts that actually go somewhere. You can ride more than a 20 second run with a chair. That said tows are a cool vibe in the park.
The only ones I know of are Ski Bowl at hood, Kingvale in Tahoe, and Mission Ridge in WA.
I wouldn't mind seeing more ropes out there for small hot lap parks, but people from the midwest that complain all the time about not finding them should explore their mtns a bit. Get down on full park laps, maybe even make the forbidden turns. Ride some tree runs, hit a cliff. There are some good mountains with top to bottom parks on chairlifts and also plenty with some fun terrain on the way too the park.
Ropes are cool, but so is the mountain.
The only ones I know of are Ski Bowl at hood, Kingvale in Tahoe, and Mission Ridge in WA.
I wouldn't mind seeing more ropes out there for small hot lap parks, but people from the midwest that complain all the time about not finding them should explore their mtns a bit. Get down on full park laps, maybe even make the forbidden turns. Ride some tree runs, hit a cliff. There are some good mountains with top to bottom parks on chairlifts and also plenty with some fun terrain on the way too the park.
Ropes are cool, but so is the mountain.
Wadyatalkinabout
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14514794:dwt802 said:
Yeah mountains suck with park insurance most of the time. It’s Why my hill can’t have big jumps anymore
crimeenthusiast
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sometimes when you tryna dial a trick you need hot laps on one feature. any park can benefit from having their most hot lappable features serviced by a rope.
programmed_robotsometimes when you tryna dial a trick you need hot laps on one feature. any park can benefit from having their most hot lappable features serviced by a rope.
Idk. Hike it? I get it but takes the same amount of time. A hike sesh on a feature always goes hard too.
Idk. Hike it? I get it but takes the same amount of time. A hike sesh on a feature always goes hard too.
saucemastrscotty
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Grouse just put in a handle tow this year, kinda halfway between a rope tow and a tbar, has these bars that swing off the rope and go behind ur butt. Their park was already sick af but has made it way more convenient to lap
rojo.grande
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I feel like with mountains that have an issue managing their park scene a two rope would be the easiest solution. It keeps us on one trail/one section of the mountain and keeps things more organized. IMO even mountains with great chair service should have a tow or a t bar for their rail yards/ middle sized parks
the hill i first skied at had a tow rope as the begginer area lift after deciding begginers was better than park. anyways why would a mountain invest in something that less than 1% of people would use. the big mountains out west arent losing people over a rope tow and anyways they rather invest in begginers and tourists that make them money instead of a guy using his ikon pass 130 days a season.
mackcamp
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Unfortunately, Jerry and the family aren’t going to pay $100+/ticket a day to ride a mountain covered in ugly rope tows. Even if they are efficient and keep the park rats sequestered away from the general public. Most mountains would rather spend that money on a high speed 12 person bottom to top gondola or something similar. Maybe an 8 seat high speed chair designed by Porsche is in your future.
stone__
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14515190:mackcamp said:
yea cause a tow rope costs just as much as a high speed 12 person bottom to top gondola. Where i’m skiing is where terrain parks became a thing and i would assume they would try and keep the culture going with something like a rope. they could easily do it they just don’t want to
stone__
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14515148:rojo.grande said:
Literally the perfect way to explain why a rope would be beneficial for any mountain with any sort of park community. Everyone acts like if there were a rope, only the actual park rats would use it. Lots of people like to do a few laps in the park and hit some jumps even if it’s not their main thing.
icy_park_jump
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a few of the boxes at my local are right next to the rope tow, you can probably get 3 hits on them in 1-2 minutes. It's pretty awesome
icy_park_jump
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actually it's not a rope tow it's a surface lift with a plastic thing you lean back on. Way better than a rope to imo
Paul.
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14515074:theabortionator said:
Im down with hiking a feature, but in what world does it take the same amount of time to hike vs grabbing the rope? I could probably get 5 hits on a feature via a rope in the time it takes to take my skis off, hike uphill 40 feet, and put my skis back on. Not to mention the effort of hiking will probably shorten the sesh
BigmoneyMatt
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Fuck a rope bruh, #escalotr gang gang, get churself a carpet magic carpet.
zoots_place
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14515074:theabortionator said:
I'm always down to hike rails. but my problem is if I want to sesh a jump, you have to hike like 5 minutes to get on hit. also at my local the chair that services the park is the chair that all the people who are just sightly better than the bunny hil ride, so that this is stopping at least 5 times on the way up and slowing down probably 8
