Mt. Snow making Carinthia one big park

[RachelV]

Any Mt. Snow fans see this?
https://www.mountsnow.com/parksandpipes.html

Pretty interesting.... what's weird is that they have Claim Jumper, my favorite tree run ever, marked as a large park. I wonder if they plan to build features in there, or if they're just considering the natural jumps and rocks and such a park?

There's a decent thread over on AlpineZone that has a nice response from a Mt. Snow rep on page 4:
https://forums.alpinezone.com/29374-carinthia-mount-snow-become-1-huge-terrain-park.html

Not sure how I feel about this in general. I'm in favor, I guess. It will be nice to have all the park stuff separated out, but Carinthia was always a nice place to go to avoid crowds on the main face. Crowding was less of a problem in general last year, though, so who knows. And I certainly would like more small/medium parks to learn in, so...

I guess the bottom line for me is that Peaks has done an awesome job at Mt. Snow so far, so if they think this is a good idea, I think it will probably work out pretty well.

 

[ski diva]

I agree -- it's a great idea. Great for park skiers/boarders, and great for families with park skiers/boarders who want to be together at the same mountain. This should be a good business move for them.

 

[vanhoskier]

From their website: "A tree-skiing area, a superpipe with 18-foot walls, a mini-pipe with 8-foot walls, an all-natural park absent of manmade material and a big-air site will also be featured."

...so sounds like the tree-skiing remains with nature's jumps and obstacles.

Sounds kind of cool. You can ski the trees and then watch freestylers do their stuff.

 

[abc]

This looks like the trend (Mountain Creek anyone?). I personally dislike it. Because what they're doing is take away one of the least crowded area of the mountain away from me!

Not being a park rat, I don't have the proper prospective from their side. Maybe they really need it. The selfish side of me thinks "what wrong with a few runs? Why do they need to turn a nice quiet section of the mountain into one big park?"

 

[RachelV]

From their website: "A tree-skiing area, a superpipe with 18-foot walls, a mini-pipe with 8-foot walls, an all-natural park absent of manmade material and a big-air site will also be featured."

...so sounds like the tree-skiing remains with nature's jumps and obstacles.

Oh, great. That tree skiing area is *so much fun*; I would've hated to see them mess with it. The mini-pipe will be great for me this year, too.

This looks like the trend (Mountain Creek anyone?). I personally dislike it. Because what they're doing is take away one of the least crowded area of the mountain away from me!

I think one of the big differences between what Mountain Creek did and what Mt Snow is doing is that Mountain Creek eliminated a lot of the better runs and some racing runs for the parks, as well as putting the park area above the best lodge. So they took a lot away from skiers, which Mt. Snow isn't really doing. Carinthia does tend to be less crowded, but I never had a problem with crowds anywhere at Mt. Snow last season -- just pre-Peaks ownership.

I remain optimistic about this, but it's really well-suited to me right now -- I've been spending more and more time in the parks on the east coast the past few seasons. So if any of you need me at any point in the 08-09 season, I'll be doing mini-pipe/Claim Jumper/Lower Nitro laps on Carinthia. Watch out, railslides -- it's only a matter of time now. ;)

 

[vanhoskier]

I've been spending more and more time in the parks on the east coast the past few seasons.

Me too!