What do resorts do with features built for comps?

geosom

geosom

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Being from the UK where we ski in giant freezers it's not usually a big problem for us.

But in places like Breck and Aspen do they leave the features for Xgames and Dew tour out. Or do the rails get taken away and jumps demolished?

I cant imagine the Stunt ditches or the money booters being left out for some gaper to go and kill themselves attempting to ride one.
 
No once X games is done they take down the jumps and push the snow around the mountain and the features are usually given to aspen.
 
They usually sell the rails for scrap once the event is done and auction the jumpline off to local snowcone vendors.
 
Sal Masekalal takes all the features to his private park in Arizona where he visualizes riders as he practices commentating.
 
I know some features from the Dumont cup are out in the park at Sunday River. They made the jumps a little smaller but not much
 
12946605:Link. said:
Sal Masekalal takes all the features to his private park in Arizona where he visualizes riders as he practices commentating.
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I heard he never takes his microphone off
 
12946562:ECSTASKI said:
No once X games is done they take down the jumps and push the snow around the mountain and the features are usually given to aspen.
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The features get taken down and replaced with different ones but the jumps stay up for Aspen Open. Not positive, but I think they stay up for the remainder of the season.
 
I remember seeing on facebook last year that the Nine Knights destroyed the castle and made a big pile of snow and covered it with some sort of material yo try and keep some snow while the summer. But I don't actually know if it worked out and they were able to keep a bit of snow.
 
12947263:joris.blanc said:
I remember seeing on facebook last year that the Nine Knights destroyed the castle and made a big pile of snow and covered it with some sort of material yo try and keep some snow while the summer. But I don't actually know if it worked out and they were able to keep a bit of snow.
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Woodchips? That's what another european ski resort did and they lost like 12% of the snow in total over like 6 months.
 
12947263:joris.blanc said:
I remember seeing on facebook last year that the Nine Knights destroyed the castle and made a big pile of snow and covered it with some sort of material yo try and keep some snow while the summer. But I don't actually know if it worked out and they were able to keep a bit of snow.
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They kept the pile insulated over summer (it gets pretty warm in livigno) and had a lot left next season onto which they pointed a bunch of snow cannons for a good while, making a bigger pile.

obviously resorts (such as here mottolino) have to destroy the feature immediately so no crazy italian decides to end their life (or go into history books) on it.

With something intricate such as the castle its sad to see due to how many manhours went into that just for it to be pushed together by a cat.
 
12946562:ECSTASKI said:
No once X games is done they take down the jumps and push the snow around the mountain and the features are usually given to aspen.
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The jumps usally stay up and are open to the public. Rail features get replaced with buttermilk features. Usally red bull then rents the whole set up for two weeks after the mountain closes for a private athlete training camp. This what goes on buttermilk.
 
Totally depends.

If its features you built in a location that could be turned into a terrain park, sometimes they leave it. PCMR turned that slopestyle course into their expert king's crown park for example. If the features are too big, sometimes they'll take down a bit of the gnarly stuff, push takeoffs forward a bit and leave it as a park.

Of course, if you had to run the event somewhere else, you just totally plow it down and get rid of it. When I used to work at Blue Mountain and we did the Triple Challenge village big air, that thing was ripped down immediately upon completion of the event.

This is a big reason really cool events come at such a high cost. Grooming time runs about $200 / hour, and lots of times the mountain doesn't get to keep the really massive / custom stuff.
 
12948546:Mr.Bishop said:
Totally depends.

If its features you built in a location that could be turned into a terrain park, sometimes they leave it. PCMR turned that slopestyle course into their expert king's crown park for example.
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Standing next to those jumps terrify the shit out of me.
 
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