method9455

cool, i'm a mountain creek pass holder but i'm going to head up to shawnee next weekend to avoid the grand prix crowd.

Well the wind isn't mountain creek's fault - camelback had the same problem today too. but iagree the snowmaking is lax at creek, not even close to 100% right now, its about 0% of the good trails at the moment. and the park is slow in coming, i mean the olympic qualifiers are next weekend and we dont' have jackshit in snow to make a park and not much in the way of cold temperatures, they're going to have to push a lot of snow. this would be the time to have a perfect park so the pros will ride through it a little, but apparently there will be very little.

how are you measuring that? end of the lip to the knuckle? or lip to the end of landing or what?

my prob is its always a jib and i can only do 50-50 and back boardslides on everything, i can front board some flat stuff and downslope but nothing with kinks - and i can't do any variations beyond that yet. put it on a freaking jump once in a while ( i know i know hiking a jump sucks) but a big step down or maybe the pipe would be sick becuase some of the jib guys can't throw anything in the pipe, itd be good to see.

i hit it early morning like 8 or 9 ish when there was a little snow on the ground, straight airs only cuz i didn't want to catch, but the snow was a little sticky and slow so i stopped hitting it, moved over to south and free rode

Just go faster. make your mind realize, the faster you go - the less it hurts.

That last fall looks painful, but good stuff for the rest. i haven't been riding park yet, 4 days up there so far but i'm leaving for canada this friday for 5 days and i didn't want to risk hurting myself on a vacation i can't refund, but after that i'll be hitting up the park a lot. luckily snowmaking weather is coming back and they can expand a bit.

it was sick today

perpendicular is the way to do it, thats how most of them are. its going to be really hard to maintain though, that just comes with the territory. mountain creek closes their's everyday around 3 becuase its a death trap after about 1. the only way to groom it is with a cat too, you'll never work it out by hand. its just one of those features, at least camelback doesn't have hte wall stopping short like creek where you end up over vert under the tranny, but still, it craters

Vernon is the same as mentioned, they had to pull 3 out of the 5 rails out at south, i don't know for lack of snow or becuase its supposed to be an intro park and they were there cuz of the Rome Premature jibulation. Went thursday, i know its a little late but the snow cover was fine, i heard it was icy today. Didn't end up going today cuz of family things, and work tomorrow and hung over sunday, then off to canada so it will be a while before i'm up there again. Hopefully snowmaking weather returns, the cover is fine but they won't be expanding the park when its like this. The half pipe is close, a few days of snowmaking and then push and then cut, and it should be good.

i'm heading up to hunter tuesday and creek twice later in the week, the vernon park should be open by then i'll post back

backside boardslide - your toes are pointing down hill, approach with your hell (back) side closest to the rail, rotate the nose over the rail first. frontside boardslide - your heels are downhill, approach with your toes closest to the rail, rotate your nose over the rail first backside lipslide - heels downhill, approach back to the rail, rotate tail over the rail first frontside lipslide - toes downhill, aproach toes to rail, rotate tail over the rail first if your coming at the rail directly at it, its hard to understand but if your coming in like streetstyle, very easy to get the naming

yea that has me beat. what metal are you guys using if your using metal. I heard aluminum is crappy and i was looking for flat steel or angle iron to make a box or a rail, but all i can find is round galvanized pipe - is that worthwhile? as for the PVC - like i said i put mine over a 2x6 i'll take pictures soon but i have to go to school now

That really shows the maturity of the staff here at PA Ski and Ride!! Congrats. First class operation here. Somewhere between the crapiest picture of the day archive ever and the we only get 6 new posts a day but divided it into 30 sections, I realized why this website rocked! Sadly, snowboard.com died, and now theres not a damn good place left on the internet.

Hey, I'll speak from experiance here. Last season built my first rail, a 12' long single barrel rail. It was sturdy as hell (and heavy as hell), a 2x6 running vertically with 2x4 legs and it was really stable, and then took a 5" diameter PVC pipe, took a 1.5" slit out of it and basically wrapped it over the top of the 2x6 and had a 12 foot PVC handrail. It worked out pretty good - except for one thing. So long as you land on the rail flatbased your ok, or if you have a board with no edges (dominant Slick, forum streetdweller), but if you have any edge and don't land flat, you get stuckin the rail and get f'ed up. PVC just isn't a great material for a rail, its too soft. It slides well, but if you land wrong, you get hurt. If your learning 50-50s it could be good, but any kind of boardslides its a bit dangerous. Also - 5' is way too short. 10' is the minimum size i would do, at 10' your on the rail for no time at all, 5 foot you wouldn't even land fully on it, expect your ollie to eat up a foot or two, and a board is longer than 5 feet.

ah so mad, I want to go badly but I have to work. (at least i work at a snowboard shop so its not that bad, but still, i was looking forward to it for a LONG time, sundays just are better for me to snowboard so i said i'd work saturdays all winter) blah my guess is vernon, no guess on what rails. especialy since i think the jiblab sold some of their rails off to other mountains so i don't know what they have now for rails

My opinion - laurel glade as intro park, small tables, small rails (lots of them), rhodo as your advanced park (bigger than anything they have now) and the skier's left side of poc raceway as intermediate (what is in rhodo now) and then have racing on the right. you get your own park lift for it too, could do laps all day. plus big jumps under the lift 1) good exposure 2) scare the crap out of noobs

Its definately not 16 i think it was 22 the first year and it was a waste of snow and too much vert, last year it was 18 or 19, i can look it up. well done but takes a long time to build - although i was up there today and honestly december 12th it looks like it did last year january 12th, they're at least a month ahead of time. they've only had the pipe for 2 years and last year was the first year with the new guns so i think they're just learning how much it takes to build one, but yea, so much snow in it right now. as for the park, 2 nice sized tables for warming up (i'd be disappointed if they don't make hte lips bigger in the next month or so), a 20 foot flat box , and a 15 foot flatbar. pretty good setup if you ask me.

Hey, so yea, there are going to be 230987230 posts about HOW IS THE PARK for each of the local mountains, but seeing that hte mountain creek forum is basically dead here, i'm throwing it here. Anyway, lets try and keep all those questions in one thread thats ongoing, it saves time. I went up for my first day riding to MC today, setup was pretty sweet. 6" wide flat bar, bout 15 feet, 18" wide box, 20 footer, both were not ride on, but had about 2-4" gaps, the kind of gap that you don't actually have to ollie to make but gives you something to work with if you want to ollie. They were offset from each other, if you wanted to hit both you could but no one was really doing it that way, the flatbar is to the right and dumps out into hte old halfpipe, the box is on the left and lines up into 2 table top jumps, nice sized table but tiny lips (maybe lie 6", people were clearing it but barely), maybe 8-10 foot from lip to knuckle (thats how i measure any other way is dumb becuase the ramp and landing don't count in the length), the grooming was great today (a mid week day) obviously no loose snow, but no ice and no craters for any landing. Another plus, creek is doing wider ramps this year, about a snow cat full blade (10 feet wide?) instead of just the cneter section (6 feet?), its very noticable. Doesn' tmean much on the rails but for the jumps you 1) get a lot more room to work with when your jumping and 2) have a tiny space to go through if you bail out of hte ramp, it was pretty tight up there

sweet you don't even know how the machines work (um beveling and grinding are the same operation its one machine, you set the angle, run the ski over it, turn it around, run the other side over it. repeat) but you can definately tell it was the guy in the shop who did it not you trying to tune or a manufacturing defect. Running a ski over an edger is something i learned literally my first day working in a ski shop, i'm sure some one who has worked for more than 2 weeks has spent time tuning rentals, and by the time you've done a hundred pairs of rental skis in a day you can pretty much do it in your sleep. I'm sure he didn't fuck up such a simple operation on your skis, so don't give a local shop a bad rep. Actually if you leave it on one spot too long you get a black mark on your edge from burning it, so if you had that indent it would be black as well. Which you didn't mention, thus i doubt his equipment did it.

why not straight onto the lower and then pop up and go sideways on the top for skiers? that'd be pretty sick. I just bought a pair of ski boots and i'm going back to skiing after 5 years of snowboarding, but I don't know how rusty i'll be since the break, hopefully I"ll be hitting up boxes on skis this year and can see how impossible they are on skis

its a dumb question though, i've never seen a park that i DIDN'T like. I liked shawnee's shitty park from 5 years ago with 3 jumps and a pipe in the ground, and a mound of snow for a halfpipe - becuase no matter what snowboarding is fun. I like camelback's park even though i didn't like how the rails were setup or the smallness of some things, i loved mount snow's and stratton's and mountain creek's and bear creeks and tremblants - and i have probably the same fun hitting a garbage kicker 5 years ago at shawnee and a gorgeous 30 foot step down at tremblant last year. its snowboarding, if your out there having fun thats all that matters. in all honesty, i spent time in canada, vermont, and 3 days a week at mountain creek last year - and the absolute most fun i had all season was this stupid knob that was at creek when they were shaping the super pipe, i don't really know how to describe it, but it was basically a giant mass of man made snow that had blown into a weird shape so that if you hit it and ollied hard it was a 1/4 pipe and if you didn't ollie you went over and down the other side, and doing flips over it the 2nd day of the season got me so stoked, i didn't have that much fun all year on the actual jumps and rails and in the pipe (maybe more adrenaline, but i wasn't at the bottom laughing my ass off like that stupid 1/4pipe/spine thing) the point is - mountain creek's park is higher budget than bear creek's, but even as mountain creek season pass holder i plan to hit up bear creek once or twice for their park this year becuase mountain creek doesn't have every infinite variation of setups, the best riders are the ones throwing down on everything, big or small. at least they're trying

dude only a grand? wtf were you thinking selling your board? i'd have to be fucking desperate before i sold off my snowboarding gear. Go get a job at mcdonalds, work 20 hours a week and you'd have that paid off in like 2 months no sweet. Trust me i rang up a $500 bill about 4 weeks ago and I already have it paid off at 7.50 and hour so it can't be that hard if you had to give up something like snowboarding. but yea, sympathy on the car shit cuz tickets are rediculous. my brother parked his car in the street, and some dude backed out of his driveway right into his car and did $2500 in damage. THe dude wouldn't pay cuz he said you weren't allowed to park there - but theres no signs taht say that and no where else to park, had to go to court and everything. it sucked hardcore. Also just got screwed cuz there was a road in town with a 40 mph speed limit and they lowered it to 25 mph and put a cop on it that day and were handing out speeding tickets all over the place - got busted doing 50, not so fun.

I'll be there the 12th, no school for some reason

season pass holder/ park rat most of hte time