Family/Beginner Terrain Park

[Bear Creek PR]

As of Thursday night, Bear Creek has created a new terrain park on Lower Grizzly. This is a family terrain park that we have designed to introduce families and novice skiers/riders to proper terrain park use and etiquette (including the Smart Style message and terrain park safety). This park features smaller, easier jumps and rails. Next time you're up at Bear Creek, check it out and let us know what you think!

[Blong131]

i was there today...its actually a pretty cool idea...and i noticed it got alot of kids out of the park that didnt belong

[beachiegirl2ski]

i was there thurs night and lots of kids doing the jumps in there. looks like this will be a hit here

[Shadows]

may i be the first to say

 

THANK YOU

 

youre setting such a good example for everybody

 

although this is a little drastic compared to gettin a park pass

Edited February 17, 2006 by Shadows

[lurker]

I love you Bear Creek. Seriously, will you marry me?

 

I really do hate all the little kids in the park (like 5 years old little), or those that suck and get in the way, but then I have to ask myself where should they go? Now I know where they should go and hopefully will be.

 

Not to mention it's great to have a place with some simple stuff to teach someone on and not get in the way. I don't know how you guys have it set up, but little stuff can be awesome for learning stuff, and I hope that's how it is. I setup that tiny little box you guys have in the base area and learned how to get on it switch, switch-ups, and a switch flat-spin. I'll be sure to check the new minipark out next time I head up!

Edited February 18, 2006 by lurker

[LTDSNOWBOARDER]

did they put rails in, cus when i was there on thrus., there were no rails or boxes, but yea its about time they made a smaller park.

 

i was thinking about how cool it would be if they somehow moved blackbear park to the other side of the mtn. but its basicallly impossible cus there arent many trails that it would fit.

[VTmark]

this is a realy good idea. i loved that beginers box. i learned 270's on and switch on. i'll be their to check it out and now when people get in my way in the park i can gently tell them about a park that they can be in and be safe about it.

[Saurus]

Ant likes men! And yeah that little terrain park didnt have any rails on thursday but me and Ltdsnowboarder saw a huge ass box that there putting out soon.

[Saurus]

It had two jumps and three jibs today. Pretty cool

 

 

What kind of rails?

[Justin]

More importantly - is it helping to move the crowd away from the main park? Also does this mean bigger/more features in the main park aswell?

[swdorsey]

well alot of ppl dont know about the little park yet... tell the lil kids in teh big parks to go and chack it out becuse it is a better place to learn

[KillinIt]

yesterday was pretty bad it seemed like i was only able to hit the top jump every other run bc of ppl on the landing and i slammed into one lil person on the landing so to me it really didnt seem like that lil park was doin anything

[Justin]

The little park was extremely small, had two little tiny jumps, a 3ft rail, and basically a piece of plastic/metal in the snow as a box.

[LTDSNOWBOARDER]

i would rather have a 3ft rail and a peice of plastic to learn on then a 3ft high 15 ft long rail.

[kmudrick]

yeah unfortunately today (sat), there was still as many clueless kids camping out on jumps and such, sprawled out throughout the main park and halfpipe - my guess is that it isn't real obvious that there is a kid park out there - its kind of easy to miss.

 

little mini-parks are awesome for building up confidence and such.. last year killington's kiddie park eas exactly what i needed to nail down the basics - even at age 26.

[NightRider]

The minijumps were pretty iced. They blew snow over everything all over the hill and groomed, but the minipark was still suffering from the melt/freeze issue. Negative tone aside, the size of things was good. The flat boxes, I thought, were the right size and such for the target audience. And yeah, they make it a much smaller price to practice nuttier moves on and off the boxes without the need to tumble 3-5 ft. off. For a first setup, not bad at all...

[ket19]

love it. great idea... i've been wanting to learn how to ride in the terrain park for a while but was really reluctant because i don't know how to do anything and know how annoying it is when clueless people are cruising about aimlessly... this is a really good idea and i'm glad it's there. thanks!

[madmavic]

my girlfriend took her first air off of those jumps.... good for beginners.

[jveix33]

This is great. I just really got into freestyle skiing this year. I was really not into trying anything because I was afraid I would get in someones way or not be wanted and look like an idiot. Now I can look like an idiot in front of beginners. Awesome. Mega Stoked.

[sectachrome]

the jump needs to be a tad bit more of a...jump.

[skidude]

I saw that tonight when I was there...Cool idea.

 

Jump looked a little small, even for a beginner jump...Maybe a little more of a lip so people don't need to go as fast to go in the air off of it.

[jveix33]

I can jump, I just can't grind any rails. I've hit all the big jumps and can clear them and I 180'd one. I just hope they have small easy small rails so I can improve my skillz.