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Glad to hear you guys like the new setup, I havent seen the finished product yet cause I went home at 6am this morning, slept til 12 and then went to the doctor. I should be up tomorow night to work. Any feedback, ideas, or suggestions will help us fine tune the park all year. As long as its kept positive and reasonable, your opinions will help us continue to shape a cool park this season. I'll try to find out a more specific idea as far as a park on cascade. I know they were working hard on getting snow for the tubing park, but since that is open I heard now they'll be turning the guns towards the jump line. Hopefully we'll be getting some bonks out asap too.

We're trying to pile up as much snow as we can in cascade and next to the tubing park so we can get some good sized jumps. By not putting rails all over it gives the groomers and snowmakers a lot more to work with without having to worry about not burying features. Cascade will be set up as soon as there is enough snow to set it up properly. I spent 9:30pm to 6am this morning working on the new park with andy, tom, and bob. What do you guys think so far?

Yea, I dont really see any problem with the step box at all. I keep reading things like "No box should ever be set up as a step down in the first place..." and "Boxes like that are only fun if they're wide enough." from pretzelpimp. You're stating complete opinion as if you're some sort of talking rulebook on park setups. I think everyone would be glad to hear any other suggestions you have, but try to be a little more positive. Right now the step box is my favorite feature in Bear's park. I have seen a ton of skiers and snowboarders landing tricks on it and very few people have said they dont like it.

Dont forget guys, the step down could at some point in time become a step up. There are also plenty of features that havent made an appearence yet. If you guys are looking to give feedback and advice you should brainstorm ideas for the future as opposed to criticizing the early season/limited setup that you see now.

Right now there is an urban setup on the smaller staircase.

The ledge was bit of an experiment to see how the material slid and held up throughout the season. If people really like the concept then maybe it could be put into a larger feature for next season. Don't knock on Bear for trying something new.

You dont like the step down box? Can anybody else give their opinion on it? So far most people I have talked to like it. Keep posting your thoughts on the park, but know that once we have more snow to work with things will get a lot more exciting.

Hey Mobile Chernobyl, lemme know when you're going to Bear next. You might have seen me skiing around in a gray jacket, tan pants and a furry hood carrying a shovel or a rake. I'm on park crew but would be happy to give you a couple pointers if i see you around. I have a partially torn LCL right now, so i'm trying to take it easy, but i can definitely help you out a bit.

If bear does wind up closing due to warm weather and rain they will be able to bounce back quickly with the awesome new snowmaking setup

Grooming in the middle of the day would mean that we would have to go to each lip and re-cut all of them since the groomer cant always be accurate enough. Also, unless the snow is packable the groomer will often just turn everything into sugar, cookies, ice chunks or some other undesirable form of snow. That leaves park crew a lot more work shoveling, raking and salting even before the park can be opened back up. Overall the time it would take to reopen a park after a groomer got done would leave so much heavy traffic on any other park feature Bear Creek had open, that the conditions in the open park would probably deteriorate much faster. Predicting exactly how snow conditions will be in a terrain park depends on many many factors, so it might be debatable that Bear's park would need a mid day groomer run. I think that myself and everyone else on park crew do pretty well keeping things in the best shape that we can without grooming mid-day. Just wait until there is more snow for Bear's park to get really fun.

I know it kinda sucks that there's no rail jam, but he's right about the weather. Right now its supposed to be wintry mix/freezing rain and all sorts of garbage on sunday. Those are not necessarily fun conditions for a pre season rail jam. I think we'd be better off waiting a few extra days for better conditions rather than ride a sketchy setup in poor weather...

I'm almost positive there are still positions availiable in various departments. I know that the terrain park manager job is taken though.

DAMN, i'm pumped!

I have a hard time fully trusting any weather report...But I figure that I'll go to boulder a few more times and then Dec. 2 is Bear's rail jam. Then the season will probably be just about starting. For those of you park guys that need to ski now, I'd suggest checking out Big Boulder. I was there the day they opened and it was so fun. Tons of kids were really throwing down and the park crew had everything groomed nice as hell all day.

Sounds like a good date to me!!

Too many boxes and rails? I dont think thats possible...

Yea, in a sport filled with potential sick photos and videos there should be a lot cooler sites for the mountain to showcase their parks.

Do you really even have to ask why camelback isnt in a TERRAIN PARK poll?

setting large features in concrete is definitely necessary, it just requires careful planning ahead of time

The box over top of the bulldozer looks like it will be fun as hell, but I agree with there being no reason for having the dozer underneath it. They should just make it hollow and have a rail going perpendicular underneath it. I was reading earlier what people were saying about bear's stairsets. I had a season pass and skiied bear's park 5-6 days a week last season. Here is my opinion, which is similar to most of the people I ride with: The stairset is sick. Unfortunately due to the crowds that usually flood the area that it is in the feature gets run down quickly and there are often people in the way of either the inrun, the feature, or the landing. I have seen every part of it hit succesfully and stylishly by both skiers and boarders. I personally ski and have hit every part of it. The lip up the the box often does get destroyed because that is the part of the feature that most people are ballsy enough to hit. The fact that this feature is set in concrete does obviously limit how it can be used in the park, but it also isnt really a feature that is practical to move. It's funny, cause as far as I know Camelback, Bear Creek, and Blue Mtn all have wallrides that are set in concrete. And I think every one of them made the mistake of setting them almost verti al. Do you guys know of any other mountains that have shitty wallrides that they cant move cause they set them in concrete?

Hey minizep, how do you know they only have one new rail and "that quarter pipe thing"? Just relax and wait to see what the season brings, I think you'll be satisfied...

I know The Loft is having MSP's premier (Seven Sunny Days) at the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg... http://www.shermantheater.com/?siteid=4&am...ProductId=19606

hmmm, maybe i'll have a rail jam... How much do you think I could make off that?

My name is Will Croasdale, but my friend Marc is the one that got the snow. I'm not really sure where he got it, but the place said they'd have more every single day. I'm thinking about getting another dump truck full this weekend...

I already had a little session at my house on saturday night with some kids from the boulder team, Schibbs productions, jon brogan, myself, and a couple others. We got shavings from a rink in Whitehall and set up a nice round bar. I cant say it wasnt a little muddy, but I had a helluva lot of fun.