hmm i am unsure if i should shair my letter to my hill. it also is a small NY hill with not much else to offer. its a little longer.
Hi. I am writing to you as a 6 year pass holder. For years I have been satisfied but in the past few years I have gravitated towards the deteriorating terrain park. I remember the years when Cameron McCutcheon and Owen were on park crew. I remember when there were always new, creative, safe, and up to date features. I feel this time was when the park was in its prime, the park crew was very visible, and proactive. But over the years these features have aged with time and being left out year round. And as they became unusable you have done a good job retiring them. But not replacing them. I feel the current boxes and rails are “ghetto” for a lack of a better word. Just today I caught my edge in the lower Pollux on a large nail protruding a few inches from the top surface, this is just not safe.
Today the box in upper Pollux with the ledges on the sides when trying to a surface “switch up” (when you go on rail turn 90 degrees and land perpendicular with box then spin a 180 and face the other way) when I was 90 degrees into my 180 turn the lexan top sheet sunk in and when I tried to turn the last 90 degrees my edges where caught on the composite decking material that is the coping. This material grabs your edges worse then PVC causing you to fly forward into a good shoulder/elbow/wrist injury. This is just not safe and I feel it needs to be replaced, not just removed like you have done with many past features. I feel it would be in Greek peaks best interest to construct some new features such as rails and boxes and to use metal and lexan because even though they are more expensive they last longer and are safer. I am talking about features with similar construction as the dog house box and large rainbow box. I don't see this as too big of a problem because many small resorts such as Toggenburg use boxes and rails that are similar.
Now I would like to discuss jumps. I feel you have always had good quality jumps so kudos to your groomers and park crew. But this recent trend that started last year of making many pointlessly small jumps instead of maintaining a few large jumps is just silly. These end up being no more then rollers and wedge design with no lip have no real possibilities for progression. I feel Greek should focus on maintaining at least 3 good jumps ranging in size like you have in past years and use the little snow piles that where those small jumps for jumps onto new features and to build up the other jumps.
Now this year already shows to be better then years past. The head of the park crew, while I do not know his name is very visible and always working and seems to have a strong desire to have a successful park.
So it seems my main point is that I feel you should update your park with new features because although they may be expensive they would be much safer and last much longer. I am concerned because I have many friends who have decided to stop holding passes at Greek for other hills such as Toggenburg. While it is a further drive, their park is excellent and thats what we are attracted to and its seem the size of our demographic is being underestimated.
Thank-you for taking the time to read this, I have other ideas that I feel could help the terrain park for little to no cost and could even generate some revenue to reinvest in the development in the park. I hope to be able to share them with you. Im also sure my friends do too.
Douglas Moore.
