Hallraker

really nice vid and edit tom, you should do one for the lego block if you guys build one next season. hope to see more of these over the course of the season.

haha maybe a little, i blame pete....and high life. sober me now, i agree boulder and bear have pushed each other to progress parks to a level PA really shouldn't have honestly. In a short number of years parks in this state have gone from mounds of snow they called jumps and rusty scrap metal for jibs(which only came around maybe 6-7 years ago at bear and elsewhere) to having legit setups with features you don't even see in vermont(big stairset for example) be happy with what is here and the progression of it all because it definitely shouldn't have happened.

yo dude you don't know shit son. andy got the park on lock, and park crew does too. go to boulder and have fun with bs set ups and no creativity, live in 1996 park style and shut the hell up. you're a douche no one likes you, bciw for life homie. just cuz you can't ride our park don't mean it sucks bro, grow a set ans step up fruit. BCIWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! yo and thanks to nick what the huck shreds, can't wait to see the dvd dude keep shreddin hard kids! ps tom ur gay....luv rob

seriously, any kind of flip off a rail, box, jib, whatever is played out. it never looked good, it never will, get over it and stop doing them. congrats to everyone but the front flipper, wish i coulda made it out to watch.

From AM Crew, thank you! we don't get mentioned too much since most people ride at nights or later in the afternoon, we appreciate it. Back to conditions....yesterday all day and night was sick, today the rain sucked.

thank you, i'd love to do that minus the fact i'd hear a bunch of kids whine on hte internet and the riding would suck.

where to even start here.... when snow is blown on all the rails opening the park is going to take a lot longer than on a day where the park is not buried. snowmakers calling park crew lazy is a joke as they have theluxury of snowmobiles instead of hiking up the hill at 7am every morning. on top of that they could point the guns away from our features instead of burying them on a regular basis. hand grooming a jump that has been blown on will take some serious time and shouldn't really be a one man job, but 5 is overkill unless some real shoveling is required. digging out a rail is the same,it'll take time to shovel it out, cut a lip, groom that lip, and then make sure the landing and sides are clear of chunks of snow/ice. if you personally think all that work can be done in no time flat, i'd love to see you do it. so they were chatting, it makes the workload easier to handle. digging out/shoveling snow is tiresome a short is sometimes needed. there are also other features that your group could have hit in the meantime while the rail was dug out. the dude who told a customer that their fellow coworkers were lazy and from new york is bullshit, he had no business getting into his personal opinion of them with anyone outside of park crew. also you have no need to single out anyone on a public forum, if you have an issue with an employee this is not the place to air it out. finally, don't hate on park crew we work our asses off for you, hit some other shit there's like 15+ rails out, don't use "crue" we'll bury you like the snowmakers bury rails, and i will not smypathize for you. thank you.

a box that is an octagon would be sick.

I fully agree the first jump in black bear is too poppy hopefully that can be reconstructed soon and be mellowed out a bit. In response to Justin, i'm not saying popping off the lip will always guarantee clearing the knuckle but it will help. yes a well built jump will send you to the landing, but popping off a jump is necessary, read anything on how to hit a jump and they will all say pop off the lip. there is a fine line between too poppy and perfect and all except the first jump in black bear right now are much closer to perfect than to too poppy. If other people are having little to no problem with the jumps, there's no reason to believe someone else can't hit them just as well.

the anti-jump works well as a butter pad kind of like the feature last year without the jump onto it, try it out. the pyramid idea for the 420 box looks cool on paper, but it would use a lot of snow that could best be used elsewhere i think.

i think it's time you learned how to work the jump instead of just letting the jump do all the work man. i have seen people spin both the first jump in tube park and the first in cascade in recent days and they have had no problem getting, speed, clearing it, or spinning it. the jumps in black bear are pretty good right now as well, not great admittedly but they're hittable once you figure out how much speed you need and how much you need to pop off the lip. i'm not trying to say you suck or anything but on big jumps you can't rely on the lips alone to get you past the knuckle.

from what i gathered today while wasting time sitting in ski school if they blow snow it's only gonna be to cover the massive bare spots and freshen it up a bit and then close sunday, but with all rumors you never know.

through talking to instructors i've seen taking beginner or non-park specific lessons through the park, i've gathered that's it's " a great place to learn to ski because the jumps and rails force them to make quick, tight turns and the halfpipe does this as well without being steep terrain." in ski school at bear i've noticed things in flyers or news and notes things about not taking lessons into the park but haven't seen much decline in it from the few instructors who stand by it. when i see one take a lessons through the park i nicely wait until we're in ski school and strike up a conversation with them and mention why they shouldn't do this, sometimes it works, most the times it doesn't but hopefully this can be put to a stop, even if it must be through management.

ski school room isn't too safe. i know a pair of skis were stolen from there last year and i had my personal(not uniform) jacket stolen from in there last season as well. thin locks suck, gotta go with a good thickness bike lock for sure or use the ski check when it's open.

i see this as a great idea, and as was said above me, kids from other mountains would definitely come out to ride park if thir local mountain is closed.

i've run into similar problems, a few weeks ago i was but off approahing a jump after i called my drop to find the kid(maybe 15-16) waiting for me at a rail to flip out of me for almost landing on him after he cut me off. another thing i saw i think a week ago was a father skiing takig hs child off of a jump wile holding him/her between his legs. not only i the crazy dangerous, but since they didn't make it over the lip of the jump they pretty muc stomped the lip out. this is why i rarely ride weekends or evening anymore, midweek duing the day is perfect.

as of today(tues) the spine is now a 30+ft jump, no new rails, there is a jump where the quarter pipe was for slopestyle, a step up jump on cascade, and a jump right after the s rail. hopefully more stuff will be out soon.

all of the ideas presented sound great, although i do love timberline how it is. it's great to hear these ideas from management and not just rumors going around. glades at bear, i can't wait to see it. with lighting quality being planned that is up to par for holding national events, is there plans to host some kind of national event at bear in the future?

as a snowboard instructor, i see many lessons that are not park specific lesons go through the park and especially the pipe. if i see someone takig a beginner lesson through the park, i casually tell them they should not be doing so, many do ot listen or care and it's frustrating. beginners have no place in a terrain park, and terrain park featuresare notmeant to help people learn to turn, carve, wedge, or whatever. i will continue mentoning it to instructors i see taking non-freestyle/park lessons into the park that they shouldn't be doing so and if happens more frequently a few of us are going to go to the director of ski school to have something done about this becase it is dangerous.

i've been against the idea of a park pass for a long time. then i went to bear for the first time on a weekend this season(usually there midweek) and my opinions changed very quickly. there's no reason for parents in rental skis and jeans going over jumps(even small jumps) with their young child between their legs. as an instructor it also bothers me to see beginner lessons or any kind of lesson that isn't a park lesson going through the park or halfpipe(when it's cut, let's get on that already haha). i've told instructors they shouldn't be taking lessons through the park but they seem to think it's beneficial which in theory could be true, but in practice it's stupid, and they don't listen or care and i know many insructors(ski and board) have told people about this. so bring on the park pass, watch a video and pay $5 or $10 for a pass and solve these problems.

capita mid-life crisis 158 wih some really old K2 bindings with a technine capstrap and northwave freedom boots

i'm gonna tr and make it up tomorrow night, but definitely sun, mon, and tues

now there's one hell of a day

is there gonna be anything up for opening day? if so what can we be lookin forward to?

every year since it became bear creek it has been a new mountain, it's crazy. if the last you were there it was still doe mt, it defnitely counts as skiing/riding a new mountain. as for bam, i can't stand him and would love to tell him. it's a shame fairman's is the only boardshop within an hour's drive i can find stuff i like since they all love him to death.