OutCold

Hey man I've never said a word about hunter. I was actually planning on heading up there on friday, dont be so hateful. But really, why were you riding the lift down?

good question...why are you riding the lift down the mountain?

Looking at 7 Springs website, and their webcam looks awfully nice... Guns are go in western PA...

I believe Elk will also pump up their guns tomorrow. Being up north, they have a 3-5 degree jump start on CB. It takes them longer to open trails, but they will have more chances at around the clock snowmaking. I look for their guns to fire up tomorrow mid-afternoon and an early december start to the season...

That is one reason why Elk feels like a Vermont Mountain... They may say no tree skiing, but it isnt enforced at all... After a snow dump there is great tree skiing off to the right of the mountain along those long blue trails... Few do it, so there is always pow, and there are so few rangers, which all of you can couch for who have been there, that it really isnt a problem...

I like my k2 cinches anyone ever tried them out? I haven't really seen many other people with them, maybe one or two.

I don't really know for sure, but I thought that surface lifts are a sort of modular device that you could add sections onto. If that were the case, the trail and lift could be easily expanded by adding onto the lift. It would make sense to do build a lift like that that way, especially in an area like Elk's park so it can still be useful in the future.

You gotta give elk a break tho cuz theyre just kinda gettin into the wwhole park scene recently. Compared to like 3 years ago, their park is great. Pesonally, I've found the jumps to be decent, they're nothing spectacular, but I have gotten enough air there to really screw myself up when I wiped out. Then again, I'd rather have decent jumps without having to wait 20 minutes to drop than to wait and hit a monster jump, but thats just my personal preference. I liked the drop-in they had last year for the first jump. They definately have a lot of potential for their park expansionwise. It looks like they have started to make it wider and maybe a bit longer. Given some time, I think Elk could have a legit park.

Yeah, thats the smae spot. It has the potential to connect to the lehigh trail if they wanted to lengthen it, it wouldnt be too difficult. That would make it a pretty sweet park. I love elks park and the whole mountain just because of its isolation, there's never any crowds. Plus, with this new lift, you won't have to take a 10 minute lift ride back to the peak every time you wanna hit the park.

Well, I have been to Elk a good many times and there is no problem with the pitch. They have a solid park set up, but they squeeze everything in. It needs to be a bit longer. The way they set it up last year, is they had 3 jumps and a spine. The jumps were set up on the right side, 2 tables and one kicker. The spine was closest to the woods. The rails are a different story. They are lined up on the left hand side of the trail. The first is your standard box, the second is a triple barrel rainbow, the third a battleship, and the fourth a 25 foot long striaght rail. They construct their jumps well... I was getting about 5 feet of air off the first table... Not so much vert you could pull a backflip, but great air. Speed was not a problem. They put a hill in front of the first jump that you go down to speed up.

Check out Elk's Daily Pic Elk is putting a surface lift in their park. Thats pretty sweet, won't have to hike it anymore. IT also looks like they have widened it a bit and maybe even made it a bit longer.