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I might be there, not sure yet I'm deciding between Camelback, Blue, and Jack Frost. I have a pass to JFBB but I need to branch out and now that more is open at Blue I'm thinking I'd rather go there than Camelback. Camelback gets slammed by holiday crowds worst of the 3 I think.

On weekends/holidays I like to be there at opening, ride the trails until about 11, take a quick break for a drink or something and then head into the park around 12 until I'm done for the day. The park gets beat later than the regular trails and by then the sun has softened up everything a bit so its all good. I wish I could shorter days more often but it doesn't work that way, by the time I do all the driving the day is basically shot so I maximize it.

It was pretty good, mad mashed potatoes, great spring riding conditions. Spent the day teaching my girlfriends sister to snowboard, it went well because of how soft it was. The park was a shit show it was hilarious. It was pretty crowded, we got there at 10 and we had to park at one of the lots that needed a shuttle but it was quick. Lift ticket for her was $28 because we both have student season passes, which made it cheap. Lift lines where never more than a minute, most were none. By 3 it was crappy though the slush couldn't hold up to the traffic. We bailed at 3:30 and hit the Addiction to Go drive through deli as recommened on AlpineZone, it was amazing. 3 bacon egg and cheese sandwhiches with 2 eggs for $3 each and 16 chicken nuggets for $3.50, and it was awesome.

Boulder was shitty this morning too until about 10:30 11 and of course there I only had my park board so it was rough. The freeze/thaw cycle is brutal this week but once it softens blue is probably fine.

Yea, but they are so short at Boulder I spent 30 seconds riding down and 4 minutes on the lift back up. At least at JF they are fun, they are just kind of flat and boring at Boulder. Oh and I want them to bring back the boardercross stuff on the blue out to the skiers right when they get the chance, rollers and banked turns where fun as hell.

I went to Boulder today, I saw the same thing, biggest crowds I have ever seen at Boulder. (But I've never gone holiday week before so who knows), but surprisingly small lift lines except for the one all the way skiers right of Boulder Park. I rarely waited for lifts except that one. The east trails where crowded, but surprisingly Freedom, Love Park, and Boulder Park where not too bad. Lots of guys in Boulder Park but it was running real smooth, I guess the jumps viewed from the lifts with all these guys throwing down scares off the noobs well. Freedom Park - They took out at least 2 features, the first quarter pipe and the last thing. That is probably a good idea but I miss the QP at the start. It opens it a a bit for the crowds though. The jump line is beat as hell. The first one is fine, the second one is super tall with no gap, put a log on top or something and just make it a spine it sucks for a jump any air at all and you are bottoming out of the landing. The third jump is too big for where it is located, it is a nice jump but if you hit any one of the features before it you won't make the knuckle, I straight lined the 2nd jump and then straight into the 3rd and couldn't make it even with a decent ollie. If you bypass the features before you can, but then you only get 4 hits on the way down. The rails where setup fine, same setup as before. No park crew as far as I could tell and ramps got beat up as the day went on, I was in there about 10-11:30 and 1-1:30 and didn't see any either time. Overall, not nearly as nice as the day it opened, and not the best setup they have ever had. I think they should flatten it out and make it easier, there are a lot of kids clamoring for easier stuff to ride, make it a bunch of low boxes and rail with some clear progression. I was thinking make it 3 lines, a super easy line of all ride on boxes and super small jumps. In the middle line do gap boxes and a 5 foot jump, and in the left line do streetstyle rails, a 10-15 foot table jump. This way there is something for everyone. Right now the easiest boxes are the first box on the left, then the next two hits don't really have anything for a newbie, then the butter box. So a new kid is only getting 2 hits on the way down, they will never progress like that. Love Park - Same setup, 40' single barrel rail setup street style, into about a 15 foot stepdown jump, into a 25 foot down rail streetstyle, into a 15 foot jump stepdown jump, into the 20 foot flat rail that has been there. The jumps where super sweet, perfectly shaped, not hard to get a lot of air on, lots of landing. My favorite two features of the day. I didn't try the three rails I'm not quite warmed up yet for the year in the park. They looked good though. A couple injuries in this park it gave me bad vibes so I bailed. A lot more gapers than the other two parks. I'm not sure why that is. It is also pretty barren compared to last year feature wise, again only 5 on the trail. I assume that will change as they make more snow. Everything was in good shape, but no park crew really doing anything. Boulder Park - Its nasty, I said it last time, and I said it again. It looks like a 25 foot jump with like 5 feet of step down, into a 30 foot with a 6 foot step down into a 40 foot with a 12 foot step down. The last one is arguably a table but whatever. I saw people getting rediculous air off it. The second two are bigger than anything I've done but the first is sweet. There is a down rail at the start of the park, not sure if boarders can hit it you need speed and it has like NO run in. There was lots of park crew keeping it sweet. Lots of rediculous skiers going off. A few boarders doing stuff too. I saw Papasteeze's son do a few spins off the first jump that where nice. People on the lift where watching, people filming, it was a good seen. The Plaza - they took out the butter pad and the pipe on the left. They where replaced with a picnic table. Next to the same long flat box and the down-flat-down double barrel. That is the smoothest flat box I have ever hit. The picnic table is sweet too. Conditions where very icy from 8-10, and great after 10 when it softened up. I would recommend to get there for 10 if you are going tomorrow so the sun has time to loosen it up. Great coverage, crowds where ok. I rode the lift with a guy who was at Blue yesterday and he said it looked a lot better at BB today but it was hard to say because it was raining yesterday at Blue. For me, I give the day a 2/10 because I sucked balls. I guess it was my first day really trying to do park again in two years and man did i suck. I was only landing stuff like 50% of the time, and it was entirely random. I land hard shit nicely and then blow a front board on the flat box. I was so pissed/embarrassed/frustrated. Hopefully I can get back to where I used to be quick so I can do some progression this year. I guess it isn't even January yet but since I've been going for 6 weeks now i feel like the year is almost over.

boulder is small and expensive, camelback is full of new yorkers and crowded as hell on a weekend like this, blue was always a favorite for me but they are slow this year, but as soon as you say something good about camelback people jump all over you, the place has its moments

its easy because no one else is doing it, they're all tea bagging Blue's balls with their half opened mountain and barely covered terrain park full of death cookies and wet snow, but don't worry the lifts are fast

I'm going for first chair but I'm sticking around. I'll bring my camera (nothing special, average point and shoot digital) and take some shots, by late afternoon I'm going to be too beat to hit anything but I want some pictures.

can you bring me a PASR sticker? I'll stay till 2 or 3 then, I'll run through the boulder park a bit late afternoon and look for you guys, what will you be wearing? I think I can spot nipples there aren't that many kids his age throwing down in the park like he does I spotted him a few times last year pretty easily

I'll definitely be there tomorrow. I'll be there for first chair at boulder at 8am, see how long I last, probably until 2. The usual setup, red jacket, gray pants, white helmet, white/black checkerboard goggles. I'll probably be in Love park. The name is Kevin I'll be looking for people to ride with.

I think they should open sidewinder without the park until New Years and then close it up again and blow for the week and open the park the weekend after. I haven't seen it but assuming there is enough snow, just push it out and spread the crowds out they won't have the park built by new years anyway the weather isn't there to blow enough. This is one of the busiest weeks of the year you need to spread people out or you get more injuries, worse conditions, and a lot of unhappy people.

I have the skycap and put the hifi audio in it, not sure if it is even supposed to work but it does. i'm happy, the hi fi didn't fit me right for some reason it felt mad funny.

tickets are expensive, the most expensive of all PA mountains for college kids, glad I got a pass even though that was expensive too, $200 for only monday to friday? Lame. I'm going up Friday but I'm not sure if I am riding JF or Boulder, and if I where at boulder I certaintly can't keep up with you guys in the park. Maybe I'll get to Boulder for first chair before the crowds and then head over to JF and lap east mountain until 3? I'm not sure yet.

its $10 after 3 with college ID, sadly I'll be working at the snowboard shop instead of riding. I'm hoping for friday at JFBB and sunday at belleayre.

pretty much every helmet falls between $50 and $150. Get a Red HiFi or skycap, add the audio, or any giro that takes the skull candy.

Anyone heading up this weekend? There are 4 of us that might go up on either day. We're not sure which one to do yet. Anyone think Sunday will be less busy than Saturday? Or busy either way?

Aren't you supposed to have surgery today? How are you doing?

I am going to bring my camera next time to get some shots, the last jump is insane.

? how are you going to ski with a broken leg? that would be chuck norris style right there.

Thats kind of the point of forums isn't it? Otherwise what are we going to do sit around and drool over how super fabulously awesome the parks are? Go to snowboard.com and check the mountain creek forum, it is exactly like that. They collectively haven't realized that Mountain Creek has crashed and burned in 3 seasons it is hilarious. So you have the haters and the fanboys and they fight, and some where inbetween is the truth.

No the tires they bolted together are still around I saw them with some other jibs. The barrells they welded together are on top of the quarter pipe transfer, the first hit in freedom (assuming they didn't take them down, they where there on thursday)

well you are going to lose 1 ski season out of dozens more to come, but you will have a story for life. maybe even a scar too, chicks dig that. you are free to embellish any story that ends in a hospital stay with morphine as well.

Its definately cleaned out a bit, it thinner than the rest of the area of big trees but the underbrush was removed so it is much more skiable than other areas. The t-bolt glade could use some love though there are a lot of big branches down in there. The mad tree glad is pretty good. Is the area to the right of telstar a glade? It is kind of cleared out but lots of branches down as well. What are those blue things in the woods on the top of east mountain> It looks like a bunch of blue tables on their side. At first I thought they where to protect valves or something, but some of them are facing the wrong way for that to be the case.

its the same thing as lifeguards at the beach, they can't do anything for you either, they just get you stabilized and then the ambulance EMTs take over.