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ha thats true, animated .gifs are back in style i hear

Boulder Park is open as just a free trail which is fun (not to jack the thread though). You could see the snowmaking at Camelback from 80 it looked cool.

boulder park isn't a bad run, its only 500 vert but decent pitch and nice and wide to crank out some early season turns, but that only opened today

Wow if they haven't graded a pipe with dirt, it is going to take them FOREVER. A 22' pipe is going to take enough snow to cover several trails top to bottom. Have you seen how much dirt is under the mountain creek pipe, even the mammoth and park city pipe have dirt underneith.

I was expecting mad slushy/muddy weather, I looked on the webcam at about 10 last night and saw a bunch of dirt on freedom but enough coverage to give it a go. I checked at 8 AM this morning and freedom was covered solid and the guns where going. Got to Boulder at 9:45 (they are open 10-10) and went in to get my season pass. Temperature was 26 in the parking lot, and lots of guns going. It took a while since the girl at guest services was new, but whatever I got a chance to talk to some people. (By the way regular tickets rate only $20). More than one local came and found out it was just freedom park and decided to bag it. One of the girls in guest services said they where hoping to get one or two more trails for tomorrow if they could. Based on what I saw, they might have a shot for it. I heard some of the snowmaking guys on the radio and they said they still had enough water to run a few more guns, which is impressive given how many guns where already running, pulling this number out of my ass, but probably 50+ fan guns and a few dozen tripod guns. Boulder park was white when we got there, almost looked skiable, as was freedom park, but everything else had tops 2-3 inches, grass poking through. They shut the guns off on freedom but not because of weather - either water or because they didn't want to run it with people on it. Regardless, coverage was great. They ran every fan gun on Boulder Park all day. Also little boulder and tannebaum where maxed with all their fan guns and some rolling fan guns and tripods. A bunch of rolling fan guns at the base of freedom park connected it to little boulder, and a lot of guns on the tubing park. Merry widow only had the installed fan guns, they were not hitting it terribly hard. While boulder was top to bottom white, merry widow had one part where a gun wasn't running and had a 50 foot from patch to patch, so don't expect that tomorrow. They where also making snow on Bunny Schuss but I couldn't see how much. The only trail that had 0 guns on it was Mittiweg as far as I could tell. I think if the weather held for 24 hour snowmaking, they could have 1-3 out of little boulder, tannebaum, and boulder park open for tomorrow depending on how much base they want for it. I left at 1:30 and they were not shutting guns down yet, it was still 30 in the parking lot. So maybe they were able to make it 24 hours which makes such a difference. If you have two days of 12 hour nights, you lose so much time to startup and shutdown that it is a lot less than a 24 hour day. If they started at midnight last night they have 34 hours of snowmaking before opening tomorrow, that is equal to 3 nights of 12 hour snowmaking at least so it is possible. Too bad I can't make it tomorrow but looks like they are going strong. As for conditions - a little sticky but I used my summer wax instead of fresh so hard to say if it was the fresh snow, the wax, or both (probably both). It wasn't unbearable but combined with the low pitch it wasn't like you can bomb it. (Oh and I was wrong, freedom is 250-300 vert not 150, it was a lot bigger than I remembered it). Edge to edge coverage no mud/rocks/grass on the area you where skiing on. The park setup was perfect for early season. 2 medium length 6" wide flat boxes, one with no gap, into one with a 4" gap. Probably 25' each. Then on the left was that wedge you have seen in the videos. It was interesting but the landing was all bumped up so I wanted to save my knees, on the right side there was a roller you could get 3-4' of air off that was, although I ate shit on it one time that was embarrassing. Then into a short double barrel, 5" gap. Then a short super wide box, small gap. Then a longer double barrell. That was the only one I didn't get first try it was a little more difficult than the rest but mad satisfying. Then the only double option, big butter box left, battleship box right. I'm glad they made it all in a row instead of double options. I like the double option when it is a park but you could get a lot more hits in one run this way, which is good when there is actually a lift line like today. Plus it gives more room to ride, you could free ride on either side of the hits no problem. Crowds weren't an issue but there where definately 200-300 people today, but the lift doesn't really put people up the hill fast enough to make it an issue. About 1/3 where hiking the first two boxes after that no one was really hiking. All the ramps where solid except the wide box got destroyed at one point but the park crew was taking care of it. Landings where more bumpy but thats hard to fix without breaking out the cat. All in all, excellent excellent product for late november. more park features than Mountain Creek had in mid january last year. There are only two rails that aren't super easy (battleship and the longer flat bar) but thats ok, everyone has to warm up. Good job Big Boulder, I'm very impressed. and the bottom so don't look for that tomorrow. It looked like an all out snowmaking session mountain wide. It is faster to say what WASN'T getting snow made than what was. It looked to me like everything but Mittiweg, although I couldn't see Stizmark or Draugganger and I don't think they where getting covered. They turned off the guns for most of (By the way, is lower Stizmark the trail that goes behind the tripple that goes to the top of freedom? There is an obvious old trail that comes from up mountain and connects to the top of the tubing park). Boulder park looked solidly white when we got there, but grass was clearly visible on on everything else. By the end of the day it looked Guest services said they where going all out to get one or two more for tomorrow but it was based on how much they could pump out overnight it will be an early morning decision. Boulder Park and Tannebaum looked like possibilities today at 1:30, about 6 inches down at that time with 24 hour snowmaking weather. Merry Widow is definitely a no go there was one spot where a gun wasn't running so there is snow top/bottom with a 50 foot gap in the middle, they where making snow on Merry Widow, Bunny Schuss, Tenneabaum, Little Boulder, Boulder park, the little area next to Freedom and the skier right tubing run when I left at 1:30 today, and will probably fire up the guns on Freedom

Yea I mean do you really need the park report on the iphone? And if so just check the regular conditions report it is nice contrast black on white. I would say it is the best site out of our area's mountains.

I agree with you on the scroll bar. I noticed load time the 2nd time I opened it was totally acceptable. I have to disagree with you on the design. You want contrast for your eStore, you want style & feel for a site like this. Its not like it is UNreadable, and there isn't all that much you want to read. Basically it is a list of features up, a list of events that barely changes, and a one paragraph update that changes. So you are talking 200 words you want to read? It just has the right feel though, and its about the pictures and video. My only comment would be to switch the team and the video so the team part is at the bottom if it is empty right now.

Well if they open up more trails at BB they need less lodging staff, ticket sales etc. You need a few per lift but if you open up a whole extra lodge that is how many more people? Plus utility bills. By mid week you will have 3-4 more trails at Boulder open anyway. The trail that is boulder park and merry widow are pretty fun to just ride on before they put features and it will be a while before they have enough snow to put up stuff there.

Never ever ever wave your rights for anything. Cooperation is one thing, be polite, don't give them attitude or reason to do anything. But you have the right to not be searched at all times, make them go through all the hoops the law gives you if you know you are clean, then you win the day. They look like a moron, they may or may not actually search the car. If they do - you make them look bad to other officers -if they don't you saved yourself time.

It's great. I don't think its too graphic heavy except for load time/scroll speed. But if the images can be optomized a little it might load faster, when I get back to school and have access to a web server I'll see if I can copy it and try to get it to load faster. Here is a great article (for web designers) on how to make an original website, and that website nailed pretty much every one of them, mad props. http://www.snap2objects.com/2007/11/20/how...he-web-20-look/

come on TP4 didn't you know that pot is the worst thing that you can ever possibly do? You are funding AL QAEDA with those drugs! You lucky they didn't call in the department of home land security, you can't be too careful in this post 9/11 world.

How is the coverage? still alright or did they put them in a line cuz the snow is melting off.

I have no doubt it is going to suck, but so long as they are open I'll bust out the rock board and go for it, you have to realize my desperation here, last day snowboarding was 1-4-07, and i'm going to have a concert the weekend of Dec 1st, and finals around the weekend after, so I won't be able to get out again until Dec 15th - and thats just too late in the season. I'm hitting Belleayre on Saturday though so they should have better snow. So long as JFBB is open, we'll be there.

Thanks all for the quick replies, a lot to consider but thats what I was thinking. I called Mountain Creek about it and my requirements and they where basically "What the hell is a 360?" when I called the number for private lessons. Doug - a group from the shop where considering steep & deep together, we might do it in the future. I was also thinking South Shore soldiers next spring break when I'll be 21 so I can enjoy the South Tahoe night life as well. For this spring it is Mount Bachelor, do you think they would have a program? I know thats kind of far out of our region but I could look into that. The referals I idea sounds best, so if anyone has any other recommendations around here, I'm all ears.

It will probably be worth the trip mid season, throw some money their way the management has been doing a good job. I bet the high speed lift issue will change soon, this is only their second season - the first was battling some guy in court until like a week before and they still have managed to cut new trails, build a new snowmaking system, and overhaul the park in about 14 months.

I've been riding 6 seasons and I've always scoffed at lessons and coaching as being for kids who are trying to buy their way into being good. Well, trial and error for learning was great when I was 14 but at this point the consequences of the error part are too great compared to the cost of a coach here and there. Plus, you can't always tell what you are doing wrong even though its obvious to an observer. So now I have to figure out where and what I'm going to do. I'm a JFBB & Belleayre season pass holder, I've got trips to Jay Peak and Mount Snow lined up, and I"m closest to Mountain Creek so I'd say those 5 are the ones to choose from. I was thinking take one at Belleayre for free riding on groomed steeper stuff, one at Jay Peak since I'm new to glades, and 3 or 4 for park. I can't decide between Mount Snow, Mountain Creek, and JFBB. I'm comfortable on jibs of all sizes and happy with my bag of tricks for rails, I want to primarily work on jumps. I am comfortable on up to about a 40 foot jump doing straight air's with grabs. I can do backside 180s 100% of the time on up to about a 15 footer, frontside 180s about 80% of the time, but nothing past that. I'm hoping to get 360's this year, maybe a 5. I'm not really interested in going any further than 5s, or doing flips/inverts. I can whip 360s around on the little mini jumps but that doesn't count, I want to do it correctly. All three places have suitable jumps for it, I'm just not sure on the quality of the programs. And I guess if you are doing a one on one its about the individual guy you get, so how do I screen that out? I don't want to sign up for a park lesson, drop $80 and then find out he only teaches noobs how to 50-50 10 foot rails (not that there is anything wrong with that but, not useful for me). Any recommendations on where to go? What to ask? Any one know names of coaches that are good? What about going on like a weekday vs a weekend? I will be doing Mount Snow on a monday-friday in january so the park is nice and empty and really well maintained that time of day, but I don't know if there will be a good selection of instructors if school is in session. I'm not really interested in doing a long term program like the one at Blue, I can't commit the time, and I feel like 3 hours of instruction I should be able to learn 3's if I have been able to get everything else on my own. I'm sure its just a mental block anyway, if I'm paying some guy I bet I will force myself to do it instead of wussing out like I do now.

The 3 super pipes in the mid atlantic are 7 Springs Mountain Creak Sno 7 Springs is awesome every year, but far from here. Mountain Creek's was perfection 2 years ago, but not open last year. Who knows what the fate of it is (as well as the Grand Prix) and it always opens after the GP which is late in the season so, not 2nd best. Sno - never had a superpipe before, so who knows, but with a 22 foot Zaugg it has the potential to be down right nasty. We will see. Worth hitting once it is open. That is going to take a hell of a lot of snow though, I hope they have some dirt underneith - it takes Mountain creek 3 weeks of blowing with pole mounted fan guns to make enough snow + tripod guns, a week for it to settle and get kneaded, and a week to groom/cut it. Hopefully with their elevation Sno will have better conditions to make snow for it. Blue, Camelback, and Hunter have decent pipes but they are medium sized. I would say I wouldn't want anything smaller than those 3 but they are usually half decent. There where times where all 3 where crappy and all 3 where good. Shawnee's pipe is a joke, does JFBB even have one? Word is this year Mountain Creek is going to try and open two, a small one and the superpipe, but with the superpipe now disconnected from the terrain park, the only thing making them open it will be the Grand Prix, and you will be hiking it on foot all day since the lift line is nuts, and now there is no park above to make it worth it. But damn is it gorgeous.

I'll be up, hopefully for opening at 10, with the girlfriend, to try and remember how to snowboard, its been so damn long, almost a whole year. Not sure if I will be hitting anything, I was going to "take it slow" since I have so many days planned, don't want to get hurt on the first day - but you know that won't happen, I'll be hitting some shit. Red jacket (or black hoodie depending on weather), grey technine pants, white helmet, white/black checkerboard anon's, and a brown/tan Jeremy Jone's pro. If you see me the names Kevin. Don't know what my girlfriend will be wearing/riding. And if anyone going up has a PASR sticker, I need one badly

ben birk = talent nice riding too

nice, we're getting mad videos this year out of Boulder its sweet. Man that one box needs some more snow for the landing huh? Wonder how it will look by friday.

Keep at it you have good days and bad days in the park. Some days I go up and I land 3 or 4 new tricks, and then next time you go you can't do anything on stuff you've been doing all season. Sometimes I find listening to the same songs (if you have headphones) gets you back in the zone because when you hear those songs it clicks. I usually take the songs out of snowboarding videos I like so it just gets you in that mindset.

Its interesting thats for sure. I took an 4x8 piece of plywood, ripped off 1 foot so it was 3x8. Then cut it so I had a 2.5x3 and a 5.5x3. Then connected them together with industrial door hinges from home depot. Then I made two like 4 foot tall stands using the aluminum brackets for collapsible saw horses. Staple the green indoor/outdoor grass carpeting that is like $10 for a roll at Home depot, and you are in business. I had the whole thing for $50 I guess, most of the parts I had at my house lying around. $20 for plywood, $10 for 2x4s, $10 for carpet, $10 for hinges I would estimate, plus screws. You need a table saw or circular saw, a screw gun, and a staple gun. The only part I screwed up on was that after you rocked onto the downhill it would lift off the sawhorses - you would be gone but it would fall over. So I put eyelets on the bottom and tied it to the saw horses and it worked fine. It was about a 4 foot drop with a 5 foot diagonal, but I put it on the top of a 2 foot bump in my yard so total drop was about 6 feet, snow transition at the bottom. The plywood was 5 ply, I tried 3 ply and it broke. Get the thinnest 5 ply they make. Or you could do 3 and brace the back, but 5 was enough. If you look a the Mack Dawg one, it is a high class aluminum frame but it is more like 6 feet tall. Probably better for the street. The only thing I noticed that was really intersting about it though - they hang about 50-80 pounds of weights on it. There are straps connected to the top floor you strap in on, going down to about 4" off the ground with gym plates the 25 pounders to move the center of gravity down on it. Strapping in a trip, you can't sit while you do it, you stand and don't fall or you are cracking your head.

sno's website is brutal my god the 90's called they want their animated gif's back

Thanks dude I looked under their regular hours part but didn't see that, not enough sleep lately thats for sure. Ha, holiday hours for Thanksgiving - there is a reason why my pass is to JFBB and not Mountain Creek anymore. Has mountain creek even hired their employees yet for the year?

Hey, does anyone know if they are going with the standard friday 3-9 or is it a holiday so open all day? I bet if they opened all day they would get a serious amount of business. I hadn't though about the hours issue but I'm not sure if I can get out there that late I was hoping to go like 9-1. I don't think we have had a mountain open down here for thanksgiving to compare this to in the 5 years I've been pushing to go early season.