Tuesday, November 18, 2008
now that's a nose press
THEDEANE submitted this shot on newschoolers.com.
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Rebuild update4
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Rebuild update3
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Rebuild update2
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Rebuild update1
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Friday, November 14, 2008
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
opening day photo gallery
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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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Thursday, November 6, 2008
first people to ride the castle peak quad
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
opening tomorrow - hooray for snow
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
JPI.4 wrap-up
The sun has set on Boreal's 4th Annual Jibassic Pro Invitational. Over 3,000 spectators were in attendance strolling though the sponsor village, shredding the public jib area, purchasing last chance discounted season passes and cheering on the pro's as they threw down. Chas Guldemond, Mike Hornbeck and Travis Kennedy are just a few of the elite rider's who competed for a piece of the $6000 purse, airline tickets from Southwest and $100 bills from FUEL TV.
As the sun began to fall behind the mountains, the public made their way over to the Pro Jib area with the skier portion opening the event. Skier Tom Wallisch stood on the top spot of the podium scoring $2,000 and two Southwest Airline tickets. John Strenio spun his way down the staircase to take 2nd and Dylan Curry in 3rd respectively. During a short intermission the park crew groomed the arena for the snowboarder portion of the contest while sponsors were throwing out a ton of swag.
FUEL TV handed out $2,000 in cash to rider's showboating for the crowd as well as hooking up a Tahoe local with a skate deck, while Dakine was handing outwear to a lucky few in the crowd. Moment Skis gave away a pair of skis to the best unsponsored skier throwing down in the event, and Snowbomb was throwing out hats, beanies, and sweatshirts.
At the end of the evening, it was time for the snowboarder's to lay it down and local Tahoe shredder, Andrew Brewer proved that he was the champ of the night taking home $2,000 and a couple of Southwest Airline tickets. Bode Merrill took 2nd while Forrest Baily rounded out the podium in 3rd. Many thanks to our announcers, Pat Bridges, Binky and Shawn Hartell. Red Bull kept the vibe alive with a VIP lounge in the pro jib arena with DJ Matt Connelly spinning beats.
Ben Meester Photography. More coming soon.
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As the sun began to fall behind the mountains, the public made their way over to the Pro Jib area with the skier portion opening the event. Skier Tom Wallisch stood on the top spot of the podium scoring $2,000 and two Southwest Airline tickets. John Strenio spun his way down the staircase to take 2nd and Dylan Curry in 3rd respectively. During a short intermission the park crew groomed the arena for the snowboarder portion of the contest while sponsors were throwing out a ton of swag.
FUEL TV handed out $2,000 in cash to rider's showboating for the crowd as well as hooking up a Tahoe local with a skate deck, while Dakine was handing outwear to a lucky few in the crowd. Moment Skis gave away a pair of skis to the best unsponsored skier throwing down in the event, and Snowbomb was throwing out hats, beanies, and sweatshirts.
At the end of the evening, it was time for the snowboarder's to lay it down and local Tahoe shredder, Andrew Brewer proved that he was the champ of the night taking home $2,000 and a couple of Southwest Airline tickets. Bode Merrill took 2nd while Forrest Baily rounded out the podium in 3rd. Many thanks to our announcers, Pat Bridges, Binky and Shawn Hartell. Red Bull kept the vibe alive with a VIP lounge in the pro jib arena with DJ Matt Connelly spinning beats.
Ben Meester Photography. More coming soon.
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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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Monday, September 8, 2008
The mind never rests....
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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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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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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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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
More Photos from 2007/2008
Which photo is your favorite? Leave us a comment.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
picture of the year?
Is there a picture of the year here? Leave us a comment and tell us.
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