Park Sessions: Carinthia, Mount Snow, Vermont | TransWorld SNOWboarding
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Riders: Alex Rodway, Nick Julius, Jack Dawe, Levi Gunzberg, Max Lyons, Brendan Rego, and Parker Szumoski
It’s not easy building parks on the East Coast. West Coast parks have the pleasure of working with softer snow-crews can think of an idea and make it happen that night because the snow is so tillable. In New England, it’s more like trying to filet frozen chicken with a butter knife. It takes a lot more machine time and man-hours to make an idea come to life. Still, park building is an area where the East can not only compete with, but best, the West. For Day Franzen and the crew at Mount Snow’s Carinthia Parks, it’s why they do everything in their power to build proper and creative setups that would stand up next to Park City and Loon Mountain, alike.
In 2008, Mount Snow launched Carinthia Parks, turning an entire mountain face into a park. A high-speed quad and a fixed-grip triple chair access four trails covered with round down bars, lift towers, boxes, square handrails, bonks, stairs, wallrides, kickers, side hits, log rides…you get it. They have the full spectrum, from all-wood jibs to the more traditional Dew Tour-style park. They make creative setups you don’t see anywhere else-including the Vermont-themed jibs of The Farm-and they work hard for it, tilling the snow over and over again in the cat just to get a substance they can work with. So when the sun comes up and the lift starts turning, it’s game on. Watch a Carinthia local like Levi or Max ride through any of the parks and you’ll witness how the place will mold a rider.
Carinthia’s layout has over 130 features spread throughout eight park zones spanning 100 acres, giving you a lot of terrain to choose from. You can ride all morning and not hit the same run twice, ride all day and not hit the same line twice. Its one thing the crew prides themselves on: building different shit. If you’re riding up to a feature for the first time and thinking, “What the hell am I going to do with this,” then they’ve done what they set out to do. It’s about challenging people to get creative, without just upping the size of a jump or the length of a rail. Don’t be mistaken, though, they have plenty of 60-foot-plus kickers and 30-foot down rails.
Daily Routine
Morning
Nitro is a good medium sized park to warm up in. There are a ton of sick jibs and a good jump line at the bottom. Starts right at the top of the Nitro Express and runs all the way down to the bottom so you get plenty of vertical to get the blood pumping. The other warm-up option is Mineshaft. There are a couple of legit jibs on the flatter top part that go into a steeper pitch.
Midday
Usually Mineshaft down into Prospector, the all-natural park. This is where they have all the wooden jibs: down logs, wallrides, C-logs, log jams-pretty much any type of rail you can think of they’ve made it out of downed trees. It’s one unique area that really sets Carinthia apart and is a must ride when you go there.
Afternoon
Find something to hike in Prospector or take laps through the larger features of The Gluch, including a bunch of proper rails and a sick jump line at the bottom. To round out the parks, there’s Inferno, the largest park at Mount Snow, where they used to hold the Dew Tour. This is where you’ll find all the biggest jumps and longest, steepest rails. You definitely want to be warmed up before you go in here.
Evening
There are a bunch of good places to eat in West Dover, but the real treat, as anywhere in Vermont, is a beer called Double Bag made by Long Trail. The only thing better than Double Bag is when it’s made with Guinness like a Black and Tan and it’s called a Cow Tipper. The Snow Barn, right at the base of the mountain, makes good pizza and does live music, snowboard shop nights, and video premieres, so if you’re staying at the mountain, that’s the spot.
Carinthia Life
Bar: Snow Barn
Eats: Lil’ Anthony’s, Dot’s, Snow Barn
Nightlife: Snow Barn
Words: John Poulin
Video: Tyler Malay
Check out more at www.twsnow.com
dude i hope viewers know that they are making mount snow look easy, its a very challenging park, well parks. but i will agree, the jumps are very well kept.
thats my home mountain :( i wish i was there when they shot this because I'm always there... I'm so sad i wasn't there >.
The first time I went here, I was blown away at how many features they had there, and I’ve been going every weekend for 2 years and it still blows my mind. Absolutely amazing place
That's funny cause I live in actual carinthia
I live In Dover a few miles from mount snow I was one of those local kids but I was on a snowboard
By the way there is a lot more trails at Carinthia not just farm and gulch:)
I live in vermont. Sweg
+Marcus Brown haha nice
+IRskate686 where in vt are you from?
i live in stowe
Just go for it! Same bro
PROGRESSION IS SLOWING DOWN I WONT LET THAT HAPPEN… mark my words spike!
I live in North Carolina and I'm soooo jealous of this vid I want a park like that sooo bad
+Nate Sprenger me too man do you go to sugar mount? its in boone preety nice resort
+Carmel trill Im on the beech mtn. freestyle team but I've been to sugar and app. now looking at this vid I still really like app and beech
awsome man im getting ready for the season and im coming up to beech or sugar this winter break.
+Carmel trill nice be sure to look at the back of a blue jacket and if it says "beech mtn freestyle team" then it might be me were always looking for a new person to ride with !
Nate Sprenger thats awsome man! good luck on the slopes!
Anybody else here have a traumatic injury that prevents from riding the park like a spinal injury and such
I love mount snow
You guys should definetly do a park sessions at Mountain Creek NJ
This is real snow.. carinthia is best park on east cost.
Went snowboarding the other day for the first time and it was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Concussion, twisted knee, sprained arm. I still loved it though and will be going back.
Wear a helmet haha
I am next time
+Huntington Game Studio wow I guess I'm really naturally talented then because the first time I went was for a week long trip and I was on the slopes every day with no injures and I was on some of the easier black diamonds and stuff but the only time I got hurt was on the last day when I got stabbed by a ski pole in the leg when I tried to go around a skier and they swerved in front of me
bro how in the hell did you do all that just trying to learn
That's cool. wondering what they do t the wood if they wax it or smght else.
Casey only got one hit...lame
LOL I stole the redbull sign at 0:21 since they left it in the woods
I love this park it's so fun east coast yeah
This is the real deal and it’s at the state of my birth ❤❤
I ski at carinthia and this was fucking sick
I don't drink much🍼
Caked and candy grind
This was today ? Jeez they have tons of stuff open. I can't wait for the ski trip here in January
Definitely occ
sweet jump at 5:11
The view over there is nothing compared to washington's view. I love the Evergreen trees with snow. :)
dats duh east for ya bud
Damn.....I suck
Cookies
I'm more of a heli snowboard person,
This rad nice video there killing it out there I ride there to
hvað er að gerast þarna a myndini
Ya I went there the other day and the park was nice
these guys ride better than me one footed
i miss boarding here...
whats the song starting at 3:21
i live in carinthia, austria
Was here today.
Yeah, Vermont!
my other house is there
this is really good
Any chance of doing a video like this for hyland hills in MN?
I snowboard in Minnesota and I don't do park, I think there's something wrong with me.
season pass to this shiz
whats the music?
Vail Co must do
Why the fuck is this the top video when you search "west coast snowboarding"
Matt Faegerland cause you're a bunghole
Baltazar Franco Bungy Booce?
Yeah dogg
Mooie tricks
poop
ALPINE
erg
I live in norway i have 3 lokal mountains to ride in
did i ask
jo cool
those wood rails look so fun.
hey are lol
so its cool to dress like a homeless person on the slopes now
stfu fool
sick filtered selfie with snapback dewd
Brandon Clark LOL u always comment that hahaha what a fool
So we meet again Brandon. A weird circle we go in on snowboard videos..
Sam Christiansen i do not recall you
Where is that
not vermont
Lol vt is awesome stratton is the best
Kai Hacker stratton is awful there are no good jumps or moguls or anything exiting or entertaining i am a season pass holder at the best mountain in vt MT SNOW
I just got back from mount snow and didn’t even go to that part of the mountain 😂. The rest of the mountain is amazing but I wish I knew how good carinthia was when I was there. F.
I go to carinthia a lot and it is amazing