| WINTER PARK GETS NEW TERRAIN PARK |
2 August 2002 |
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The premier attraction on the slopes is the consolidation and expansion of the resort’s terrain parks and half pipe into a single linear playground. The terrain park formerly located on Cheshire Cat moves to upper Allan Phipps. RailYard begins with a series of jib features such as rails, a teeter totter and a rainbow rail. There will be a break in the park for cross traffic on Cranmer Cutoff trail and then the park resumes with two different lines. One option is to continue through RailYard on traditional terrain park features such as tabletops and spines. The second is The Rolls, a slope-style park used for Boarder Cross events on the left side of the trail with crescents, compression rolls and spines. The new half-pipe, Vertigo, moves from lower Cranmer to a location just above Snoasis mid-mountain restaurant. The alignment of all the resort’s terrain parks and half pipe to a single trail allows snowboarders and skiers to access all of these features with just one chairlift—the Eskimo Express, Zephyr Express or Olympia Express. "This new terrain park was created in response to the many comments we received from guests that our terrain parks and half pipe were too far apart and inconvenient" said Gary Defrange, president and CEO. "This new linear design will make the parks more user-friendly while providing better opportunities for spectators from the Allan Phipps trail and the deck of Snoasis. " Off the mountain, visitors can enjoy the addition of a new eating establishment at the resort is good news for all of Winter Park’s visitors. The Boxcar Deli features breakfast goodies and custom-built deli sandwiches, snacks, soft serve ice cream, beer and wine. The new Base Camp 9000 shop stocks all the items that skiers and riders need for a day on the slopes but forgot to bring along. Items such as sunglasses, film, aspirin, chapstick, goggles, hats, sunscreen and other accessories. The purchase of five additional snowcats will enable the resort to offer more frequent grooming on some of the resort’s busiest and most popular green and blue trails while also allowing for occasional grooming of some of the resorts advanced and expert trails. One of the new "cats," a Park Bully, was specifically purchased to sculpt the new terrain park. [Source: Transworld] Mail
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