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"If there's like 12 inches of snow on the ground, the kids are saying, 'When can we get into the terrain park?'" says Corey McDonald, the director of mountain events for Bogus Basin Ski Resort. "I'm like, 'Are you crazy?'"
"You need to put that on a certain pitch," Neptune says. "That's difficult. You never go to a mountain and say, 'Wow, that's a perfectly flat mountain.' The difficult part for us is to go in and figure out where the high point is, and fill in from there.""If you hit dirt, the event's over," he says. "Ultimately, that's when we're stuck. We have to find dirt, and make adjustments above it."See the full content of this document
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Jump Into Winter
Who knows what lurks in the dreams of Ryan Neptune? The itinerant half-pipe and terrain designer may very well dream of slope angles, snow quality and gleaming aluminum rakes.
But for now, Neptune doesn't get to dream much. He's too hosed by travel."The winters just keep getting longer and longer," Neptune says.H...See the full content of this document
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