skimanskimanskim
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Hellow everyone of the NS World. I had a meating today with Evan, and we discussed the park setup at whaleback.We talked for about 30 minutes about what trails are going to hold what. Theres going to be a beginner park, holding beginner rails and small tabels for learning, intermediate park holding medium sized tables, 25-30 sizes, an Advanced Park holding a big money booter, large tables, sick jibs that have never been made before, if there is enough snow and the terrain applies the large kicker could be about 60-75 feet or slightly less depending on snow conditions and financial and what not(not to bad at all, eh?)There will be a Rail Field holding many many different rails and staircases and such, and there will be a rail feature right out of the font of the lodge, accessed by a small rope tow, there will be a set of 4-6 rails right next to eachother, some with stair cases, ledges, boxes, rails, urban and what not. the features at the moment are very detailed and sick. 2 features witch evan and i discussed today were, a huge block that extends off the slope about 20 feet out, extending until its 15 feet tall off the normal slope, then a rail and a box on top of that block with the ends of the rail and the box partly off the end of the block, after the block there will be a eitehr a cat walk 15 feet down, or a partial slop just in case noone makes the gap, after this catwalk or partial slope there will be a steep landing for the 3 features so you have plenty of time to style out your spins and what not! there will also be a bomb drop on this block for 180's and butters. The second feature we discussed was a multi feature butter box. This consists of a Jump, after the jump a medium sized gap, then a butter box, witch is really high off the ground made out of snow, or possibly plexi glass for a really sick ride, there will also be a rail off the side of the jump that is facing up so you can gap over the butter box to the landing. After the butter box there will be a gap and a wide steep slope for landing. I know you all hate msp, but in one of the shots in abma's section there is a sick set up gap with a real nice transition to a big kicker, this is a big possibility, and will probably happen, This is only a start for the wonderful features that whaleback will hold. Rail wise, there are going to be some really tight lines, rails, and boxes to gaps to landings for spinning (like in shanghai six at keystone), Another kind of features that there will be are funbox sort of rails, like a mellow up flat down rail or box supported by snow, right next to a down ledge or something, where the down part of the up flat down would be but right next to it (this is only an example, i don't actually know the set up, but evan was trying to describe it to me, but it was tuff to comprehend, but i think this deffinately gives his ideas creditability. All the normal rails will have actual landings, not this flat crap that some resorts have, and the rails will have more accessible rails for spinning onto, not not all slide ons for snowboarders to 50-50 on, Well thats the update, atleast as much as i can remember, I'd like to hear comments and suggestions so that i can pass them on to Evan. Thanks Guys.
