Friday 1/19

[method9455]

Hey,

 

I'll be out Friday 1/19 at like 10am. I should be there a solid 8 hours - even if it is just Horizon that trail is pretty epic for practicing butters and flat ground shit. Plus right after snowmaking the snow is stuck to the sides and I can do wall ride shit all fucking day on just one trail. I'll be happy just to get back to creek. Hopefully they open up some park features somewhere, I can't imagine them not putting stuff up - but so far doesn't look like they have anything on the report. I'm going up with 4 guys from work and my best friend, anyone else going up that wants to ride?

 

I'll have a red jacket, white helmet, gray pants, white/black checkerboard goggles, not sure one what board/bindings I'm bringing yet, we'll see.

[Matt B]

some features on Sayonara (flat box, 40' downslope street rail, Down Flat drop Down box & Flat GP Box gap to Downslope GP box)

 

straight from the mountain creek website

[method9455]

It was super crowded today. The park setup was pretty nice, luckily they had a big fence keeping all the gapers out. A couple dozen people but the rails where big so it was largely uncrowded which is a good move. The super small boxes attract people in huge crowds and its impossible to keep setup. Park crew was on hand to keep things smooth. Snow coverage on open trails was excellent, edge to edge, deep, and good quality on top. Almost 0 snowmaking everywhere that is not open, that 1 or 2 inchs this morning will make it easier because the ground is more frozen, but aside from half moon I saw no other snowmaking that got start on Vernon yet. Not a snowflake in the main park aside from what fell last night, I'm a little concerned by that knowing how long it takes them to make snow in there, and I'm leaving Feb 6th - not sure if I'll see it open before I go. I was glad to see they haven't made any snow in the pipe, hopefully they won't waste snow on that thing this year but they might. I usually love the pipe but I think this year its just not worth it.

 

Oh yea, and the Gondola was shut down for like an hour today, so they opened up the triple which then had the longest line I've ever waited in, but then the Gondola opened back up again. I stayed from 9-1:30 and then headed out to BK and then home, glad to get back out on the snow. If this were opening day in December I'd be stoked, they made a lot of snow in 3 days - just one trail. Instead its January 20th and they have one trail, fucking I hate warm winters.