Snoqualmie Pass finally came out of the closet today. Talking about “dirt-work”, “hard to swallow”, “equipment”, “desire”….What it really means is they just ain’t making a Superpipe. Which we’ve all been dealing with for a few years anyhow.
“We truly desire to have a quality pipe here at The Summit, but due to the immense amounts of snow needed, we have been unable to consistently produce one. We have invested a ton of man-hours, snowmaking, dirt-work, equipment, and spirit. However; there is no middle ground when it comes to pipe quality, and even with all the effort, it has not worked for us. So, as hard as this may be to swallow, the simple fact is we are discontinuing the Superpipe here at The Summit at Snoqualmie.”
Here’s a screen shot of full text.
Regardless, nice of them to fess up on FB. Good onya for that. Still…doesn’t it make sense that it’d take less time/money/effort to build a normal, non-super halfpipe. They ran that 90′s style halfpipe for years before the stuperpipe. Why not now?
One thing they cite as reason for axing the Superpipe is lack of snow. ?
Well….back in 2005, the Northwest got completely assed out of a winter. Literally in the dead of winter Snoqualmie Pass was bare. It was kinda scary. Yet amazingly, Snoqualmie Pass managed to spray enough man-made snow to erect a fucking Superpipe. No joke. In the middle of winter 2005, Snoqualmie Pass was completely bare, except for a Superpipe, over at Ski Acres. IT WAS AWESOME.
Check out the videos below that my dude JM dug up. …In 2005. At a Superpipe. During the worst winter in the Northwest.
Here’s a vid of same session Peter Line chucking heself to oblivion. I remember watching this go down over and over for like an hour. That dude was/is no joke.
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I grew up skiing in Wisconsin where the avg annual snowfall was literally 44 in/yr and several of the local ski resorts had half pipes and jump lines every season with the help of snow making machines. To use the phrase, lack of snow is a joke. I am not even a half pipe rider but I laugh every time I hear this excuse. The truth is more likely related to $ savings. The fact is several of the WA ski resort completely forgot the lesson learned by Kevin Costner in the Field of Dreams…”if you build it, he will come”
You hear that Snoqualmie Pass?! Your actions have driven people to quote Kevin Costner movies.
Sad times indeed…
This whole situation reminds me of Dances with Wolves, when Wind in His Hair says to his companion in reference to Kevin Costner’s character, “We will shoot some arrows into the white man. If he truly has medicine, he will not be hurt. If he has no medicine, he will be dead.”
Summit needs to give us our medicine.
Yeah yeah yeah!!!!
srlsy?!? dis place is soft… bring on the surf flight u-tooobz
super lame
Surf fights. What a joke and complete waist of time to even watch. Please bring on the educational forecast science of our winter to come.
A few years ago I asked Gwen Howatt why Baker stopped maintaining its pipe. She told me “We get too much snow and it’s just too much cat time.”
If it’s not one excuse, it’s another.
Not that I’m sad about it. I feel the same about half-pipe as I do the NBA strike.
That makes sense to me.
‘I feel the same about half-pipe as I do the NBA strike.’
That might be the greatest snowboard quote of all-time. Or at least today.
HEYDUDE IT WAS A LOCKOUT
AND IT’S A HALF PIKE
Stevens pass has a mini half pipe going right now!!!
WHAT.