Well those of you visiting the resort have probably noticed a lot happening in 42/78 Parks… since re-doing the rail park, and dialing in Snoozer, we have been busy getting the 42/78 Park on Foxfire dialed for Salomon Jib Academy (www.salomonjibacademy.com) which is visiting this weekend… stop on out and check out Salomon team riders/coaches Tommy Ellingson, John Symms, Cody Ling, Nick Martini, Keri Herman, and Seth Warner, as they set it off…

We’ve re-established rail tiers above the riders left jump line, and have re-done all the other take-offs, landings, and run ins that were there before… We have one more day of cat work ahead of us to tidy up, and cut the pipe, then we’ll be ready to drop hammers all weekend…

Stay tuned for what’s in store with Red Bull Buttercup

-Pat

I thought I’d use this space to give a weekly summary of what we have going on here in the parks, and maybe even throw in some random industry musings here….

We’ve been working hard at cutting the pipe over the past few days, temps have been tricky, butwe’re doing some final passes this morning and we’ll be ready to go…

Foxfire jumps have been addressed, meaning we pushed the landings back up, and re did the takeoffs to fix the wear and tear they’ve gotten over the past week and a half. We’re hoping early next week to change up some of the rail / box stations, and maybe throw a few new things out there…

The wall ride has been by far our best feature of the year, and after some trial and error, we lengthened the transition on it, making those flat landings a little harder to come by…

Snoozer is all set as a boardercross course, after the events next weekend, we’ll change it up to fun jump lines (medium size stuff) to provide some good progression features…

The Terrain Garden (Progression Park) is all set and ready to go for beginners, looking forward to seeing the groms in there getting after it…

Last but not least, the organic park… we’re going to switch some things up in there, but the wood isnt going anywhere, sorry to those who whine about them!

Random Stuff:
-Red bull is doing a sky dive from the stratosphere… 120,000 ft free fall… are you kidding me? check the YouTube vid…

-Big Boulder started their TransAm build out, always look forward to seeing what Ian and the crew are up to…

-Okemo opened a natural park through their woods etc… will be interesting to read the feedback they get after the negative comments we recieved from the project…

Last but not least, we welcome Cody Voit to the park crew, he’s gonna fit in around here just fine…

-Pat

We started the process of creating a pipe for the season yesterday, we expect the work to be completed in a day or so, with weather cooperation… it’s not the easiest part of our job, but we’ll put the best pipe we can out there, props to Jim Curtis for his operating skills behind the sticks of the new PB 600 Park

4278 parks 2010 highlight pictures of skier and snowboard riders getting some from photographer Billy Bacon. This Google Picasa album will be added to throught the season. Also peep the geo-data for shot location.

Current Inventory on the Foxfire 42-78 terrain park. Great new jump line and features. Half Pipe is being constructed  now.

First two jumps are great for a warm up.

2nd Jump

3rd Jump is a  wedge to whale.