The Shreadows

Alpine Meadows Shreadows Terrain Parks will be going through some changes for the 2009-2010 winter season!

We are embarking on a completely updated plan for out terrain parks this winter. In essence, kicking the old "park" out and taking on something totally new...totally unfiltered.

 

Current Park Features

Tiegel:
Beginner style boxes and jumps for the smaller riders

  • Dancefloor Box
  • Spine Tube
  • Flat Box
  • 3 Small Jumps
  

Sneaky Wease:
Intermediate jump and jib lines with large natural features hidden in the trees (located on Loop Road)

  • Snake Run with Rollers and Burms
  • 3 Small Table Top Jumps
  • Tree Stall
  • Log Ride
  • Goal Post Tree QP
  • Container Wall Ride

Roo Ridge:

Intermediate jumps and jibs for the weekend warrior

  • 24' flat box
  • 24' flat down box
  • Four medium jumps
  • Log stall
  

Dance Floor:
Large jumps and rails for the advanced rider. Rail garden on red ridge and the best jump line in the basin.

  • 24' down
  • 36' d-f-d
  • 36' u-f-d
  • 24' u-f
  • 30' up
  • 32' f-d
  • 24' down
  • 40' d-f-d
  • 32' down
  • Medium Step Down Jump
  • Large Step up jump
  • Large step over jump

 

New Park Vid

Alpine's Freeride Team shredding!

 

New Park Plans!

We were talking with Jonahs, our park designer and manager, and he convinced us that incorporating features into the mountain's natural topography is a perfect, clear fit. "Since the majority of our skiers and riders spend as much of their time exploring all 2400 acres as they do the parks; and in the way a guest can find steeps, moguls, chutes,or spines anywhere on the mountain, we want guests to be able to try a park feature on other areas of the mountain," he said.

 Check out the pre-season work.

Everyone here including our general manager Kent Hoopingarner is excited about the change. He said, "the new park plan is appealing in that our park designer and staff can build terrain features which blend with the natural banks, rollers, and mountain layout. This type of design is certainly a growing trend in the industry; but it is a true fit for Alpine Meadows, everyone will enjoy every part of the mountain."

So look forward to additional park features scattered throughout portions of Kangaroo, Boomerang, and Tiegel trails (via Kangaroo double, Roundhouse high speed quad, and Hot Wheels triple chairs); as well as lower Palisades, Terry's Return and Loop Road (via Summit Six high speed six passenger chair and Alpine Bowl double chair). "You will be able to ski one of the best mountains, blast jumps, and slide rails in the same run," added Jonahs, who incidentally, enjoys the off piste on Alpine's High Traverse as much as he enjoys a flawless step-down in the Shreadows advanced park.

 

The Shreadows Vid