The pipe is progressing well with the LHS wall nearing completion and work has started on the RHS wall.
The Slopestyle course will be closed for the next two days for Inter-school events, however on Thursday night it will be rebuilt and a fourth booter added.
Cheers,
Fess
Construction of the Superpipe continues today. Here, Adam makes the push on the LHS wall, which is close to completion. Work will start on the RHS wall tonight. There’s still lots to do, but we’re hoping to have the pipe open this weekend. No guarantees yet though we’ll keep you posted.
Adam advises that the pipe is progressing well. The left side wall is about half way down, he’s hoping to have this done by tonight.
Hey All,
Well we started hogging out all that snowmaking snow up in the pipe site on Wednesday, the snowmakers were making the most of the cold temps over the past couple weeks and made some huge whales. It usually takes a couple weeks to push all the snow, step the pipe then cut it, but we’re going to throw as much time as we can at it to see if we can get it open earlier. We’ll see how we go!!
See ya, Adam
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The PS Slopestyle is closed this morning for an event, will re-open at about 1pm. Expect a rebuild tonight.
Pipe work has started, with snowmaking it will get there soon.
Cheers,
Fess
Last night we did a rebuild in the Slopestyle on Front Valley. The groomers came in early and stayed late, and the day crew have been flat out this morning fine tuning the new features. As I’ve said before in this blog terrain often dictates design. For instance our location has three good natural landings that allow us to make bigger jumps with longer landings. In the flatter section after the first jump we built a true table a couple weeks ago. After last night’s effort we now have a three jump line that goes 30 foot curve jump step down, 40 foot true table top and finishing with a 45 foot step down. At the bottom jump pad we built a 6m Cannon box and will build it into another jump once we have more snow so we can have our usual quad jump line.
We also rebuilt our jib line by adding a few new features and relocating some others. The jib line starts with an 8m down Yard rail, then our 10m Rainbow rail, which was refurbished this summer. Next is Dougies’ Flat Down combo box which we changed to a 6m flat X 9m down, followed by our 9m down Donkey rail. We widened the park at the bottom now that we have more runs open and Front Valley is not as busy, so we put in a banked 6m “C” box to flow around the rock where we then put in a 6m Up / Down rail. We still have a bit more space so tonight we hope to put in the 10m “S” rail next to the Stall Ball.
Thanks to the new snow that we got recently, we have now opened the Coca-Cola Leichhardt Park for the first time this season. It’s geared more for the beginner / intermediates and has 4 boxes and 4 rollers. The line starts with a 3m Dance Floor box, then two 3m boxes in a row finishing with our 8m ledge box. The Blue Cow park is still rolling and the Yabby Rider Cross course had a rebuild yesterday with a new roller and berm to add to the mix.
The weather has moved in and it’s snowing lightly so hopefully it keeps up.
Cheers, Adam