Friday, November 21, 2008
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Friday, November 14, 2008
JPI.4 on FUEL TV's "Weekly Update"
Check out the "Weekly Update" with Boost Mobile on Fox Sports Net's regional networks this Saturday, November 14 as they showcase Boreal's 4th Annual Jibassic Pro Invitational. Catch the action all week long on FUEL TV's "Weekly Update" that airs daily as they highlight the first major rail jam to hit the Tahoe area. Visit fuel.tv for up-to-date info and features..
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photo-post from thesnowlife.com
Click here to check out more photos from Boreal.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
opening weekend superpost on snowboard-mag.com
Our friend Binky was awesome and sent it a Boreal opening weekend super-post to Snowboard-mag.com. If you know Binky, you know he is never at a loss for words, so click here to see what Binky has to say. .posted by Slaughter
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Moment Ski Crew at Boreal's Opening Day
Jay Bags and the Moment Ski crew came out to Boreal for opening day, and the day after, and the day after that.
Click here to see some pics.
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Friday, November 7, 2008
opening day photos
Here are some shots submitted from our friend JP Lagos with thesnowlife.com.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
opening tomorrow - hooray for snow
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
opening day is set for...
Thursday, November 6, 2008. We will be running the Castle Peak Quad and tickets will cost only $30. There will be several terrain park features available, but not sure which ones yet. We will post more details soon.
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Boreal at the sf ski fest
button mania
carpet skiing
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
my face is on the front page of newschoolers
First let me apologize to everyone on NS reading this and saying, "why I am reading this if it is on the homepage." But I had to let the rest of the world see the greatness of NewSchoolers. Rom Marcucci of The Red Dawn posted a great article on newschoolers.com along with some photos that really sums up what the jibassic is all about, check it out. Thanks Rom!Labels: jpi, news, recognition
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
jpi.4 featured on Freeskier.com
Freeskier has placed a great write-up on the homepage. Here is a little excerpt.
The 4th annual Jibassic Pro Invitational went off this past weekend, bringing in some of the top rail talent in the country as well as some local Tahoe-area ams. Tom Wallisch, Steve Stepp, Mike Hornbeck and LJ Strenio are some of the well-known skiers who were able to make the trek out and compete in the annual rail jam...to read the full story and see more pictures go to freeskier.com.
Words and photos by Jason Badgley.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
public jib video
No pros, no judges, no money on the line, just kids stoked on snow. Now who doesn't like that. Check out the action going down at the public jib park at the 4th annual Jibassic Pro Invitational. Video by Pat Bridges. Thanks Pat!Snowboarder Magazine public jib arena video
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Monday, October 27, 2008
jpi.4 coverage
Been nerding out behind the laptop and found some awesome coverage of jpi.4. We got front page on Snowboarder Magazine and FUEL TV. Our friend Zak Shelhamer posted some great shots on PortersTahoe.com.During the event I ran into Robbie Sell. Luckily I had a media pass in my pocket because Robbie got some banger shots and posted them on the homepage for Transworld Snowboarding.
If you were shredding in the jib park, Eric Gourley of the Auburn Journal may have caught you from behind the lens.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
most progressive parks
The latest issue of Snowboard Magazine has hit the stands with their list of most progressive parks. Boreal is in some pretty good company on this list!
Aspen
Bear Mtn
BOREAL
Loon
Mammoth
Northstar
Park City
Breckenridge
Summit at Snoqualmie
Whistler
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Red dawn film fiesta
Hot dawg eating contest
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Monday, October 6, 2008
red dawn film fiesta
Saturday, October 11, 2008 @ Lakeside in Tahoe City. Tickets are only $8/$10 at the door.
We will be giving away Boreal Lift Tickets and the Boreal Golden Tickets (first in line all day, opening day 2008).
Tons of give-a-ways + a silent auction for Alpine Initiatives. Bring your wallets for the charity and some good karma for the give-a-ways. This event is going to be awesome.
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
JPI4 riders list
The confirmations are coming in and the fields are shaping up to the best ever. It's fitting as well as we've upped the ante for the winners this year. Both Southwest Airlines and Fuel TV are stepping up to the plate big time in support of the cash purse. In addition to the $2k cash we are putting up for each winner both ski and snowboard, Southwest is kicking down 4 round trip tickets, 2 each to the winners. Fuel TV is fronting $2k for best tricks in the form of 20 crisp one hundred dollar bills so once again we'll throwing down cash on the spot for the skills that pay the bills!SNOWBOARD
Lucas Magoon
Mike Casanova
Bode Merrill
Chas G.
Travis Kennedy
Scott Vine
Zak Hale
John Foy
Trevor Jacobs
Brett Butcher
Chad Tarbell
Kad Madsen
Forrest Baily
Jed Hoffman
Jake Devine
Jona Owen
Cornell Agee
SKI
Ahmet Dadali
Sean Collin
Dylan Curry
Daniel Bruton
Andy McDowell
Ben Schmitt
Tom Wallisch
Rich Fahey
Rich Marlowe
Ben Westmoreland
Steve Stepp
John Strenio -
Gus Kenworthy
Nick Martini
Mike Hornbeck
Giray Dadali
alex dorszynski
zach steele
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First walk thru for grand prix
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Polka-dots 'o fun
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Monday, September 29, 2008
JPI4 OCT 25th
Sneak peak at the new feature that will debut at JPI4. It will split down the middle to become two staircases to complement the concrete feature in the 49ner park this winter. One will feature a down single barrel and a very narrow flat down box while the other has a d/f/d single barrel and a very narrow f/d box with and inside banister. One really cool thing about this new staircase is the d/f/d is matched with d/f/d stairs. The old d/f/d staircase did not have matching stairs, rather they were straight and the d/f/d box escalated at the end. That old staircase is being scraped so the two boxes that were on it can be split up in the park this winter.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Motor room for castle peak quad
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Got 686???
686 signature s-box
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First round of technicolor complete...
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Taking matters into our own hands
For years and years park builders have talked about how to build a better hip faster and easier. Usually a good hip takes tens of man hours shoveling for something that can't ever be groomed again. It just the nature of good steep hip landings that there is no really good way to fix them once they have be riden and mellow hips that a snowcat can groom really aren't all that fun to ride. Well, after all the years of dreaming we are going to do something about this problem...BOREAL IS BUILDING A HIP CUTTER. We got our hands on a used HPGR17 which with a fair amount of fabricration will become the first ever purpose built hip building/grooming machine. This will allow us to consistently build and maintain hip landings anywhere from 45-75 degrees of pitch. Fabrication will take place this fall so look out for a mid winter launch of the BOREAL HIP CUTTER!
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
New box graphics
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
New kidz'x park location...
So far this summer we have been posting all these updates about the new lift and you must be sitting there wondering when are we going to spill the beans on some new park stuff. Well you can't get there from here until we got most of the lift in place so we could start expanding the run to the riders right. The biggest change in the parks for this winter is a result of the new lift going in and the new locations this lets us place two of our park lines and radically change a third(check out my sand castle from the other day). Looking up from the bottom you can see where the new kidz'x park will go on riders right of the Castle Peak Quad. We are so stoked that our littlest park now has a home of it's very own. This will allow us to better focus this park on smaller evolution features without it being in the line of fire from uphill traffic, lazy old pipe riders looking for an easy way down, and in effect being one half of the night park(more on that in a future update!). Kidz'x will have its own gated entry and be spaced out just right for a mellow easy going flow.
Looking down from the start area which is sheltered to up hill traffic by trees. Here you will be able to chill and check out posted information on park safety and how to ride "evolution features" before you drop in. Kidz'x will start off with a jump/jib option, roll into the mini pipe and then continue on with more jump/jib options, maybe a hip or two and some bxcross style features.
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Ahhh..technology
Nice to see my cell phone is good for something after all! Just snapped this picture of my computer screen of some of the new box/rail graphics we are working on. Things are going to be techno color onthe hill for sure. Pretty cool we can update the blog via text message now. This just happens to be a screen shot of not so exciting graphic work but this winter these updates will be coming straight from the guys driving the snowcats at night showing off their newest creations. Look for Hollywood, C-murda and Jay-roll to be keeping you guys informed all winter long..straight from the horses mouth and on time!
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
tons of progress this week!
Here is the new snowmaking pump on the right and one of our two older pumps on the left. This one new pump pumps more water than the two older pumps combined. That means more snow faster to get open, expand terrain and get the superpipe open earlier than ever before!
Here's the new snowmaking pump as it went in yesterday.
All of the towers for the new Castle Peak Quad were lifted into position today!
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Friday, August 22, 2008
superpipe fans guns.....
The new automatic fans were set at the top of the superpipe yesterday. Now that these are permanent we won't have to wait for natural snow like would before to enable us to drive the guns in place with a snowcat. No matter when and where we are making snow we will always have resources to crank these suckers because of the new pump that is going in on Monday. This one ultra high capacity pump has more output than our two existing pumps combined! Don't be surprised if you are driving by Boreal in mid to late October and you see a pile of white growing above the superpipe!
These guns and the rest of the system will be run from a computer on my desk...this is getting too easy!!!!!These pictures are courtesy of SMI and give representaion of what the program will look like when installed and running.
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this thing is SICK!
Well, the urban conrete creation is done and ready for snow.This thing came out sick even through we had never worked with concrete before....I think Dave and I could moonlight building conrete skate parks!
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
the forms have come off..
The first feature of the new Concrete Playground(formerly known as Rail Alley)is now a reality! Not too much to say that can't be better said by a photo..so here are the first sneak peak views.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
get smart in the park
There's nothing more cool than being smart in the park. But don't take our word for it, listen to what JP, Eddie and other Pros have to say about it.There's alot of cool new smartstyle stuff coming out this season. We'll keep everyone posted here!
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new rss feed
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
new bullwheels for Castle Peak Quad
The new bullwheels just arrived. As you drive by, check out the hill this week and you will see new towers going up, plus all the new fan guns on the hill. 
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Boreal Terrain Parks Partners with 686
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
some tlc
Dave hard at work as usual
Both School buses have been super duper reinforced. Our friends at Redbull are sending up some graffiti artist to give them a sick makeover.
Getting boxes ready for a new coat of paint and some slick new graphics.
we should be done with repairs to all the jibs shortly and getting started on building new jibs within 2 weeks.
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snowmaking update
this ditch is actually pretty exciting if you're our Head Snowmaker Ken
two new tower fans on Prospector
new light tower above the unload area of Castle Peak Quad
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
concrete on snow progress update
Today we started final assembly of the form work on the hill. We should be finished Monday and ready to pour concrete!
Looking up Rail Alley at ...???(we don't actually have a name for this yet!)
Side view into the soon to be pyramid
Filling the interior form with dirt.
About half way done with remesh/rebar work.
It will not be long now! Just a little more rebar/remesh work and then the exterior form for the pyramid can go into place and then we can pour the concrete.
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did you see this issue of Snowboard?
In case you missed this issue of Snowboard, I thought I would give you a second chance. You can even download the issue from Snowboard-mag.com by clicking here
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Concrete on Snow
That's right! Dave and Eric are out on the hill prepping for Boreal's newest feature. A 5' tall, 16' long, concrete skate-style feature.
There are going to be so many options, it is going to be ridiculous.
There are going to be so many options, it is going to be ridiculous.
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Tour De Fat This Weekend
Who is willing to trade thier car in for a bike this weekend?I have been to the Tour de Fat for the past two years, and it's a lot of fun. Read about it in the Tahoe World or watch this video.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
Summer Project Update
Work continues at the top unload area of the new Castle Peak Quad
Final grading isn't too far off.
Looking down at where the top terminal will be set and 4 of the 16 new fan guns that will provide coverage for the new lift.
Hummmmm....could these fans be for the superpipe?
In total there will be 25 new fully automatic fans to provide coverage in the mountain core of the Accelerator and Castle Peak Quads including the Beginner areas, Prospector and Race Arena trails as well as the Superpipe, Night Park, Accelerator jump line(??say what??) and Kidz X park.
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Monterey This Weekend
I was down in Monterey this weekend for the Red Bull Grand Prix Moto races. It was pretty sweet. I hung out and had a beer with Jason Lee, chatting about how sweet Boreal is. He is a big fan from back in the day.
The guy in the back-right with the flannel on is Jason Lee.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
New Fans Guns and Castle Peak Quad Construction
Check it out, we are seeing some progress!
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