Report: Paintbrush “That’s some park”

It’s one thing for a resort to have a fun park. Something everyone can ride and have a good time in. This is essential for any resort to grow its freestyle customer base. But it’s another thing for a resort to build a park that truly tests the limits of not only it’s riders but also what the resort can deal with as far as risk. It’s a delicate balance. I remember when Timberline wouldn’t even allow rails in their parks. We’ve come a long way. And Paintbrush is proof of that.

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The jump line is similar to last year minus one step over. However, I think they are built much better this year. The crew addressed the issue of not having enough speed to do much on the first jump by constructing a gigantic start mound. The groomers got the landings damn near perfect. When you hit the sweet spots it’s like you never took off.  Today was super windy so we didn’t spend much time hitting the first one. But pointing it from the top straight to the lip sent you directly to the sweet spot. We’ll see how it is when the snow is a little slower. Might have to shorten it up a bit. I’d guess it’s about 40-45 feet right now and the jump couldn’t get any smoother.

With the snow as fast as it was today you had to scrub quite a bit of speed between the first and second jump. I hit them both first today and i sent it DEEP on the second one. I’d guess at about 45-50 for this one with a great take off. However the consensus today was the take off could get a little bit taller just to add a little hight of your air. But considering the snow situation right now, The Crew went above and beyond.

Since the wind kept slowing us down on the first one we just started hitting the second one. Starting from the deck of the first jump sent you almost to the sweet spot every time, depending on what trick you were doing.

After the second jump the first feature is still kind of up in the air. The idea is to have an up box that kicks you up on to a butter pad type thing with a lip that steps down and over a cat track. The idea is sick but I’m not sure if you’ll be able to hold enough speed off the box to clear the cat track. If not they talked about just setting a lip back a bit so its a step up to butter box to step down cat track gap. I prefer the second idea but thats just because I’m not a huge rail guy. It would be sick if it could be wide enough for both. After that there are two jibs set on a small table. The left side has a gap to flat down rail. The right side has what I would guess is about a 15 foot gap to a down box. (Sickest jib in my opinion) Next is the giant propane tank to the wall ride/gap step up rail. Then you have a nice little step up flat bar and ending with a down flat down flat bar.

Eat your heart out Meadows!

First Jump

Start Mound

The First Landing And Second Take Off

Jump 2

Landings For Days

Jibs For Days

Features For Days

The Drum

Options

Legit

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