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| Copper
Mountain's Snowboard Park |
| While Colorado's ski resorts
have long been known for their great conditions and endless rows of
skiers poking down the mountains, the snowboarding wave has become
increasingly evident in the past few years with more snowboard terrain
parks popping up at resorts everywhere. Most all major Colorado ski
resorts now have a terrain park in some form or fashion, and Copper
Mountain is no different. Many people have asked us what these things
are all about, so we decided to bring you the answers with a visit to
Copper.
Any good terrain park consists of three key elements: kickers,
rail-slides, and half-pipes. Copper has all three and in abundance.
There are two half-pipes, two whole runs with nothing but kickers and
one rail-slide bar (there's also a picnic table or two--that's gotta
count for something). Below, we have pictures of some of these necessary
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| Yep, Copper's got it all; big
parks, big hits and decent landings. There's just one thing this place
is missing: SNOW. This park, like most any other park in the state, is
very icy. This makes the landings very unforgiving so you better plan on
sticking the landing or paying the price. Anyway, the parks are pretty
nice at CM and the small half-pipe (pictured above) is one of the best
we've ridden. There aren't a whole lot of different hits in the park and
most are a "go really fast and clear a 20' table" type. The
rhythm of the parks is pretty good, the hits tend to flow well and you
could easily hit 5 in a row without ever slowing down.
If you haven't tried out Copper's park, give it a shot, just be
prepared for some harsh landings unless you're comfortable sailing 20 or
30 feet. If you're looking for the best park around that has both the
big and small, we'll let the cat out of the bag, it's Breck, hands down.
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