Ride Utah Blog

Great video at the Canyons Terrain Park by Pat Fenelon.

Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort late last week opened its Eagle Superpipe, Pick ‘N Shovel and Jonesy’s terrain parks in time for the holiday season.

“The cold temperatures we’ve received over the last few weeks have been great for snowmaking, superpipe and terrain park building,” said Jeremy Cooper, Park City Mountain Resort’s new terrain park manager. “We’ve spent endless man hours building the pipe and park over the last few weeks to provide the best possible product for potential Olympians who will use our pipe as a training ground for the 2010 Winter Games.”

Park City Mountain Resort’s Eagle Superpipe is the first and largest Superpipe to open in Utah for the 2009-10 season. The historic pipe, where U.S. athletes swept the men’s podium and won gold in the women’s event during the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, will entertain the masses with Olympians again. The U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix makes its final stop at Park City Mountain Resort for back-to-back night competitions, Jan. 22-23, after which the winners will be crowned and the 2010 U.S. Snowboarding Olympic halfpipe team will be named.

Pick ‘N Shovel terrain park, located at the base of the resort, has intermediate to advanced features including five jumps ranging from 30 to 50 feet and up to ten jib features. Jonesy’s terrain park, located off the Bonanza lift, is suited for beginner to intermediate terrain park users and includes ten features.

The PayDay terrain park will remain open with jib features for the remainder of the season. Beginning Christmas Day the PayDay jib park will be lit for night skiing.

Dude’s got big shoes to fill, but, he’s from Mammoth and June Mountain, so he’s got to be pretty good, right?

Park City Mountain Resort is pleased to welcome Jeremy Cooper to the team as our new Terrain Park Manager. Jeremy started as a park builder at Mammoth Mountain in 2002 and became park manager at June Mountain in 2005.  Under Jeremy’s direction, June’s parks have risen to be ranked among the top resorts in the country by several industry publications.

Park City Mountain Resort is committed to maintaining our position as a leader in action sports and continuing to push the progression of the industry.  We feel that Jeremy’s experience and passion will allow us to continue to be an industry leader.  Jeremy is excited for the level of support he’s already seen from the resort and is looking forward to bringing some fresh new ideas to the resort.  Once Jeremy gets on board we’ll get him to write an official blog post giving you guys his ideas, plans and hopes for the upcoming season.

Jeremy has some big shoes to fill with the departure of Jim Mangan. Jim has done amazing things for the resort including putting together a world-class team of athletes and building terrain parks that have been named the best parks in the country by several industry publications.  He was very successful in positioning PCMR as one of the most recognizedsnowboarding resorts in the world.  Jim is moving on to pursue a career in film.  We wish him the best in his new endeavors.

Check out this great video from Justin Olsen at the Canyons featuring the “Respect” Terrain Park.

Upper and Lower Respect Terrain Parks at The Canyons Ski Resort are open! Local riders and Canyons team athletes talk about this years set up in the park, and what has been going on. Steve Duke and the park staff are building features designed to help you step it up. The challenge has been issued.. bring it.

Well the parks are up and running at the resorts and everyone is having a good old time hucking, bonking, and sliding all the goodies that the crews have built. But, you might need a refresher course in the Smart Style program of Terrain Park safety and ettiquette.  Watch this video about how to behave in the park:

http://www.terrainparksafety.org/press.asp

Then head up to Brighton this Friday night! X96 and Brighton are sponsoring a best trick contest this Friday at 7:00PM. It will take place at the ever delightful, always Majestic Terrain Park. Some details:

• Ride for 60 minutes, the judges choose the best tricks throughout the session.
• Top 3 tricks, plus best slam win prizes!
• Contest is FREE
• Skiers and boarders welcome
• Register in the bus waiting area of The Brighton Center from 5:30-6:30 P.M.
• Must be 18 to enter or have a parent or guardian with you to sign a waiver
• Fireworks begin a 8:00 P.M.

Fireworks, free contest, and prizes. What could be better…

When you’re bonking and jibbing on Brighton’s terrain features this winter, you might want to take a moment to peak the great art work on the jibs and rails. Utah’s anti-tobacco program, The TRUTH hired spray paint artists to paint the Brighton Terrain Park. The TRUTH is also sponsoring Monday nights at Brighton and will be up there giving out snowboards designed by another urban artist, Nate Williams. You can print a half price coupon from warriorsagainsttobacco.com to use on Monday nights all season long.

Watch this video that our sister blog did with Jared Winkler, the Terrain Park Director at Brighton.