skeer_tomas
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Setup has not and won't change. They close Sunday at 5.
*4pm.
Also, a 4 line of BMX jumps were put up last night on Timberline.
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Just looked at the map. It was black bear. I can see that being blue if that's normally a park. But Kodiak too. That's a green in PA, out west it's a parking lot.
This is pretty much what Black Bear looked like prior to Tuesday night.
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We've been in build mode since Sunday night and it wont stop until the weekend. Cascade is full width features as of this morning. We had a bit of a photo shoot on the big air setup today so that gets torn down tonight and begins the process of making that a jumpline again. Hopefully 4 in it. Baby park should get a facelift this week as well. We're going to try and space it differently and squeeze another feature in.. we'll have to see how that turns out...Upper Black Bear will be getting reworked ASAP with another jump and a rebuild of the existing one. We should definitely have enough snow for that after this storm.
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Bringing the thread back to life. I've noticed early week days, such as tuesdays like today, have a less than stellar grooming. The slopes were almost perfect sunday and monday morning. Then once again Tuesday spotty grooming. 3 - 6inch transitions in the middle of trails, random icy groomer tracks, ruts and uneven rollers. I really don't mind so much myself as I love terrain park and all conditions, but I've seen some interesting grooming on a couple Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. I've actually heard a few guest talk about writing letters to managment as they bring their kids to learn at Bear Creek. Below par grooming leads to below par conditions and prevents riders from returning to the mountain. On a good note the big kicker in black bear is fun to hit when the conditions allow you to get enough speed. Sorry for the slightly negative post but I've been hearring it a lot the last couple weeks from guests that I meet on the lifts.
If you're talking about the mountain in general that seems odd. Those dudes are solid operators 7days/week. If you're talking about cord in the park, that's my fault. I spend almost all of my Monday and Tuesday nights digging out buried features or building which definitely plays a part in less than straight cord.
They modified the lip again and yes, the last foot of the kicker pops you up now. They have changed the lip like 3 times now. We were dropping in from up at the lifts and cutting no speed just strait down black bear and off the kicker.
I've been messing with that Black Bear jump a few times now. I've been adjusting it with feedback that we're getting to try and get it dialed in. Every morning I've tried to test it out I've gotten crazy up hill wind so I've been having to rely on second hand feedback.
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So are you the dude I'd need to bribe in order to let Grizzly bump up?
haha naaah. that's not my side of the mountain.
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Tom, any planes to do something with the 10 or so inches of snow? Make a big gap jump at upper cascade?
Tonight I'm going to try moving snow on Cascade for a 4th set of rails and I'll probably start working on widening upper Black Bear. I have plans... muah hah hah hah
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Actually Tom do you know why they turned off? I heard a car took out a poll on state road but we all know how whisper down the lane works
Yeah it think it was actually forgedale road. I guess met ed had some issuse figuring out where to draw power from so that might be why the power flickered on and off. Once we were up and running on 100% generators we were fine and didnt have any issues.
The Line Traveling Circus is there today as well
Hell yeah! I feel like word of that traveled pretty quick and all these skiers just came out of the woodwork..
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Did a rebuild happen on cascade yet?
I'm heading out shortly to start moving some snow for a rebuild on Cascade.
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Is the arbor rail still around cuz its always set up, but this year I haven't even seen it lined up with the other rails near the trees. Also I have to say the jumps are looking beautiful this year.
It's funny you mention that. That was one of the rails we put out tonight.
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Nice pics Kyle.
We're changing up a few features in Black Bear tonight to get some freshness in for the weekend. We're going to let the weekly monsoon pass us and then getting into next week expect each park to be switched up quite a bit if not completely. Probably Cascade first since that's a pretty tired setup and a lot of snow needs to be pushed around on that trail. I really wish this weather would give us a break..
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that rainbow looks beautiful.
It's not quite set up the way I'd like ti but it's fun to spin out of.
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We'll be placing some rails tonight on lower Black Bear Park and then we'll be done placing new stuff until the heatwave passes this weekend. Right now we're having great problems...There is a TON of snow on Black Bear for this time of year. The only problem is there's not enough hours in the day and operators awake to keep up with what we want to do.
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No, no need to either. Let them blast the mountain with snow before they change it up., it'll be worth it. Cascade will be built Wednesday into Thursday I believe and them black bear will be closed Thursday for a build. I'll let tom clarify that because I could be wrong.
Exactly.
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A few years ago BC used to offer some epicly good cheese fries in the Grille. It was like $4.5 for a bucket of curly fries topped with melted cheddar cheese, bacon, sour cream, and green onions. It was enough food to render a normal person immobile for at least 3 hours. Combined with a happy hour pitcher of beer it was a perfect ending to a day of riding for under $10. Sadly those are no longer offered and have been replaced with what they call American Poutine. Which is fries, with gravy and cheddar cheese. While delicious...they don't quite stack up to the now defunct bucket of cheesy goodness.
*pours out some melted cheese*
It is also just Doug beating a joke into the ground until any trace of humor has been completely and utterly destroyed.
I do remember those now. Sooooo freakin good. I too wish they were still around now.
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What's with the abundance of cheese fries discussion?
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My guess is they're going to wait until they start pushing snow around to see what they have to work with before they post what the set up will be.
This.
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as long as they open before january, dont have to close in the middle of the season, and make somewhat of a good park i will be happy.
yup 90 hours of marginal to good snowmaking is all they need im pretty sure. we definitely have one of the sweetest snowmaking systems around. id like to see them move a couple of the mobile guns once the mountain is open and just pound the jumpline with snow so we can have something reasonably larger before like mid february.
maybe a smaller one. they will probably try and get a good base going before pushing snow for bigger jumps.
Black Bear is actually lined with wheel guns at the moment
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I agree, that old roller coaster box should be brought out.
That old beast was super fun! The skier in me wants that box out on the hill... the whatever else in me has to say otherwise though. Unfortunately it's one of the features that wasn't built to current standards, and for that feature the list is long. Besides that, to be perfectly honest, it's downright dangerous to move and set up. It's so long and flexible that when it's moved it flaps around like a giant pair of wings. I kind of wish I had a video of it being moved around just for the funnys.
With that said... If it's deemed possible to actually fit one in the shop.. we're looking into getting a steel roller so we'll be able to pump out way more curved features. That box in particular only still exists to one day make an exact copy of it but built more set-up and budget friendly.
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not necessarily. 200-500 yards of snow for a dimensional lip (plus the easy push for the foundation) with a cat op who knows where to put the mass and then a crew of 3 diggers. its not like it takes 3 days to set a 6 foot wall up with transitions. you need to shut down a park if a cat is on it. not diggers. so just shut a feature down every now and then and work during the day. no need for OT or night work.
for some stuff it would take longer yea, but so what. just depends on what kind of park youre trying to create i guess.
maybe im too ambitious, idk.
honestly though, park crew consists of stoned kids thinking of setups so its not like you have to actually work at design in an office and pay them 15 dollars an hour for blueprints.
i think people just need to realize what it takes to build a park and be OK with it gettin shut down one or two days a week to build up/move around. youre park doesnt need to be open 7 days a week in PA. just let people know when it will close on facebook or whatever.
I know some of these words. Draw some pictures brah. It's easier to see what you mean than read what you mean if that makes any sense. If you're computer literate in the slightest you should try Sketchup. It's really easy to use and it's free.
"honestly though, park crew consists of stoned kids thinking of setups..."
This is an absurd stigma that will forever haunt all park crews everywhere. sigh...
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When I'm on Lift A at Bear Creek I can see the place were they keep all of their rails, and there has to be hundreds. So my question is why does it seem Bear Creek always uses the same 20 rails every signal season?
Hundreds? haha naaaah. But yeah there are quite a few old rails back there. Maybe 10 or 15. Some are hanging out waiting to be repurposed and some are on the scrap list because they're built to older specs or standards. Every summer I try to bring a few down to get rid of but sooner or later another few end up back there. A pretty constant cycle really.
I'm always surprised Macungie meth heads haven't stolen them for scrap money.......
Is the s rail with the franken legs resting forever in this elephant's grave yard ? That thing was cool but brutal.......
Yup, that one's still up there. Got knocked around with a bulldozer a few summers back and ended up with a pretty nasty kink in the middle. And then... the new s-rail was born!
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Comparing bear creeks parks to a Ferrari is laughable.
Bear creeks parks are the Geo Metro of terrain parks for sure!
Ok, boss... we're at least a Buick LaSabre.
But seriously, that wasn't the analogy I was trying to make.
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I agree it isn't the best solution, but at least it is something. The park was down right dangerous 2 weekends ago. I talked to a patroller and he looked at me like I had two heads when I said they need to patrol the park and keep people who obviously ignore park etiquette and simply do not belong in there out. I sent another e-mail about park passes but I doubt that will ever happen.
IMO, BC needs to move the park over to the other side of the mountain. It gets so much gaper traffic because it is right off the main lift. Put it over on Timberline and you could cut that in half.
Putting the park on Timberline would be like a car dealership hiding a Ferrari in the back of the lot and parking a beat up geo metro on the showroom floor. The parks occupying the trails that they are on right now are the best trails we have for them.
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To keep kids from cutting over to black bear and getting killed by someone on that jump. I believe bear did it because black bear is their "advanced" park this year and cascade I the intermediate park and they don't want those trails merging. Any rider who actually knows what they're doing could merge there without a problem but I think it's more for the gapers. I don't like the fence one bit either but I get why they put it there.
Basically correct. Black Bear Park is now the "Large" park for the rest of the season and there's a few reasons why that fence is there.
#1. Before, you were going from a large park to a medium. Naturally, if you choose to go down the large one, you should be able to handle the medium park. Now, if we left that open we would have to do a whole new fence entrance anyway labeled for the large features and we would be intentionally disrupting the flow of Black Bear which is...
#2 It's designed and laid out for more advanced riders in mind. That means larger features and a top to bottom (if you want to, non-stop) flow. What tends to happen with the small-medium parks is we get groups of kids who hit a rail, stop, and wait for/watch their friends in odd spots...Then do it all over again on the next feature. It always happens and there's not much we can do to prevent it. Encouraging that type of traffic in Black Bear is not something we want to do and opening that cross over would be doing just that.
#3 We hope to get another line of rails skier's-right on Black Bear now. Opening that cross over would prevent us from doing that.
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Is the 38ft tube still set up or did they put the flat bar there?
Still there.
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I'm sure things will work out fine. I haven't talked to him in a little while but I'd imagine predator will be in the cat again.