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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.

*4pm. Also, a 4 line of BMX jumps were put up last night on Timberline.

This is pretty much what Black Bear looked like prior to Tuesday night.

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.

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. 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.

haha naaah. that's not my side of the mountain.

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

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. Hell yeah! I feel like word of that traveled pretty quick and all these skiers just came out of the woodwork..

I'm heading out shortly to start moving some snow for a rebuild on Cascade.

It's funny you mention that. That was one of the rails we put out tonight.

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..

It's not quite set up the way I'd like ti but it's fun to spin out of.

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.

Exactly.

I do remember those now. Sooooo freakin good. I too wish they were still around now.

What's with the abundance of cheese fries discussion?

This.

Black Bear is actually lined with wheel guns at the moment

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.

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...

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. 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!

Ok, boss... we're at least a Buick LaSabre. But seriously, that wasn't the analogy I was trying to make.

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.

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.

Still there.