sundown refreshes temptor on an incredibly regular basis. unfortunately, its waaay to short a run to make it worth your drive. but being 35 minutes away is another story.
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sundown refreshes temptor on an incredibly regular basis. unfortunately, its waaay to short a run to make it worth your drive. but being 35 minutes away is another story.
powhunter
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+1
Beast_Ed
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Hey, you never know. Let me know sometime when the bumps are good and I'll drive down. It's about 2 hours from my home just west of Boston. I am no mega-ski-area snob - I will shred the Jane and Sundown in the same month and be pleased by both!
I'm sorry, you can put your air craft / engineer spin on it all you want, the risk of serious injury is much higher off jumps in terrain parks than from a mogul kicker.
As Gary mentioned, you at least have to have skill to make it through the bumps with any sort of speed to go into the kicker with any chance of overshooting most landings. On the other hand, any Joey can go flying off the giant table tops and land flat.
You put a kicker in a mogul field and 90% of the people going off of it are going to be semi-old, semi-gaper dudes like those of us posting in this thread who simply want to get a bit of practice landing their half spreads, pole daffys, dumper airs and 2 o'clock twisters.
I won't even get into the damage people can do to themselves riding rails.
I stand by my argument that having a kicker in a bump field is WAY, WAY, WAY, less of a liability for a resort than their terrain parks.
MogulQueen
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Kickers in a mogul field, if built correctly, just launch you straight up. They slow you down and they have an easy steep landing to set you up for the next bump.
powhunter
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One solution is to place the kicker at the bottom of the bump lines...that way you still get the transition from the bumps to the kicker....Also agree with mogulqueen....a properly built kicker will launch you up, and have a decent downhill landing...There is also a lot of work involved "shoveling" to keep it, and the landing in good shape
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gmcunni
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works for me as long as the landing isn't flat.
well if they seed tempter to the point they did last year the landing will certainly be on a flat.
perhaps why Greg recommended a table top on the flats?
Maybe the solution is to have one table top up top leading into the bumps, so people can work on their transitions from landing to hitting the zipper and then one at the bottom to work on exiting the zipper and off a jump.
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Yep. which is why I suggest small tabletops. Sure, not mogul kicker type jumps, but at least those of us that need to get more comfortable in the air can do so without burning 6 of the 20 moguls turns on Temptor. :lol:
gmcunni
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tru dat... "finish line" area on temptor wouldn't work.. if it was back a bit it might. still not clear *WHERE* on stinger they plan to set up but i don't think there is too much flatness on that trail so the end might not be bad.
powhunter
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tabletop landing????
read my signature BITCH!
Puck it
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woah... heat in a sundown thread... wierd...
it was brought up once already... maintaining a feature with out a snow cat.... in southern new england... on a trail that is already pretty short (where the good bumps are) and .... right next to a trail that has small and medium jumps on it that are maintained consistantly through out the day....
kind of talks me out of building temptor bump jumps.... Gunny bump jumps i fully am behind... but temptor? i really feel as though it kills the rythem of a short section that is steep enough to be called good.
how about an informal (possibly useless) poll on this... consistant bumps down the last steep? or bump jumps with mogul skier designed pop and landing?
it was brought up once already... maintaining a feature with out a snow cat.... in southern new england... on a trail that is already pretty short (where the good bumps are) and .... right next to a trail that has small and medium jumps on it that are maintained consistantly through out the day....
kind of talks me out of building temptor bump jumps.... Gunny bump jumps i fully am behind... but temptor? i really feel as though it kills the rythem of a short section that is steep enough to be called good.
how about an informal (possibly useless) poll on this... consistant bumps down the last steep? or bump jumps with mogul skier designed pop and landing?
gmcunni
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WTF - ur crew makes snow and does rail jams in the summer, u can't handle THIS?
i don't know shit about maintaing a bump run, f*ck, i can barely ski one but temptor can easily handle 3 lines. why couldn't one of the side lines have a small kicker 3/4 way down where there is still some pitch. jeez, set it up, if no one uses it after a few weeks take it down. Brian will help.
only if i can vote multiple times.
Nice poll. And I don't mean the ones doing a daffy in your avatar.
hey numnuts, I wasnt even done typing in the poll before you answered.
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