Siberia bowl chair?
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Submitted by SnowValleyNews.ca on Sat, 06/03/2010 - 7:34am.
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 Joined: 23-12-2006 |
I saw a patroller out in Siberia bowl with some survey equipment. Maybe they are considering putting the old chair they have from Nakiska up there. Would be cool if RCR listened to the advice of their long time employees and Heiko and put the chair up there so that beginners and intermediate skiers could enjoy alpine snow conditions and avoid the slopes of ice that can happen on the deer chair. |
Joined: 14-12-2009
with respect to having a high beginners area, these are a good idea but in the places I've been to that have these have different terrain.
Ideally you need an egg lift to get up to the high beginners area so that novices can use it to get back down the mountain again afterwards (or change the chair system a fair bit).
The other advantage the low beginners slopes have is snow production which can only happen where theres a watermain. not much use if the temps above zero but there have been times where the snow on deers been more plentiful than the rest of the mountain!
Also i imagine it'd be a pretty big deal to move a chair all the way here!
There did use to be a terrain park up round that way though I see from the old maps, and there's the old Face Lift drag hanging around (drags are pretty standard for parks too). Be cool if the park had its own lift, was higher (to make the snow features last a bit longer), and there's no reason they couldn't have a flat beginners run next to it.
All that said, it's probably just going to be a second toilet or something.
Joined: 16-06-2009
the survey equipment was to get an estimate of how much it would cost to get rid of the falling star switchback
Joined: 23-10-2007
[quote=Mark Caz]There did use to be a terrain park up round that way though I see from the old maps, and there's the old Face Lift drag hanging around (drags are pretty standard for parks too). Be cool if the park had its own lift, was higher (to make the snow features last a bit longer), and there's no reason they couldn't have a flat beginners run next to it.[/quote]
RCR resorts do not have parks. No-one's quite sure why, but that's the way it is. That's policy and that's why it's not there any more... they took it all out a couple of years or so ago.
So unless they change their policy, you may get a flat beginners run but it certainly won't be next to any park.... let's go for the toilet option (and cunningly ignore the switchback sensibleness).
Joined: 14-12-2009
They have a rail park, that looks well slushy a lot of the time and is constantly a mottled brown colour, if they were ever to put in a high beginner's run it'd be good to have the rail park up there with it as you currently have to hike or spend 20 mins via the bear to do another run of it.
Speaking of rcr being anti-park, the rail park is really not a bad place to learn to jump in safety: the launches for the rails are very wide, and vary greatly in size: as long as you stick to the edges and don't land on the rails you have a pretty good set of beginners jumps... not saying its enough for the hardcore jumping crowd but stops people learning on intersections.
Be good to see the top of falling star adjusted a bit though even going in a straight line from the the top of whitepass I can't quite make it over the top without stepping out.
Joined: 23-10-2007
[quote=Mark Caz]Be good to see the top of falling star adjusted a bit though even going in a straight line from the the top of whitepass I can't quite make it over the top without stepping out.[/quote]
Might I be so bold as to recommend either a slightly longer board or some better wax... or losing a bit of weight. All of the above helped me negotiate that drama so I speak from personal experience, not attempting to be derogatory
Joined: 23-10-2007
Oh, or just go somewhere else and avoid Falling Star like the plague