2024 Terrain Park Contest
By The Editors
Every year, as we sift through the dozens of entries we receive for this contest, we keep our eyes peeled for trends and notable highlights to point out here, and also monitor to see if those trends hold during the coming season. We didn’t need to look too hard this year to identify what worked during the 2023-24 season: Events. We had about twice as many entries for the “Events” catego- ry as we did for any of the other three. Whatever the reason for the influx, it’s a good thing. Events build community, are fertile ground for content production, help promote ski areas to a younger audience, and more. Terrain park events aren’t new, of course. Competitions and photo shoots have always been part of park culture since the beginning, helping to make freestyle mainstream. The vari-
ety of events in this year’s contest goes beyond comps and shoots—there are a handful of urban events (as in, building a park with trucked-in snow in the middle of a city street), learn- to events for groms, banked slalom races; the list goes on. We could only fit a few from each category here in the magazine. Once you’re done perusing these beautiful pages, go to saminfo. com/terrain-park-contest to see all of the entries and vote for your favorites. Winners in each category will be rewarded, and one grand prize winner gets a trip to Cutter’s Camp 2025. And finally, we’d like to thank Jess Goucher, a terrain park groomer at The Summit at Snoqualmie, for her help editing and organizing. Jess’s passion for parks—especially park events—is an asset to our industry, and her grammatical pro- ficiency is an asset to us editors.
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TOYOTA T SEVEN SPRINGS MOUNTAIN RESORT, PA Some logos aren’t suited to be made into jibs. The Toyota logo, however, is essentially a rain- bow box with supports in the middle. So, with a sponsorship in place and an event on the cal- endar, Seven Springs fabricators got to work in August 2023 to build this feature to be includ- ed in the Toyota Takeover rail jam in February, hosted by freeskier Tom Wallisch at the resort. The feature is 20 feet long, 10 feet tall, and 12 inches wide. The outer shell is sheet metal, and its frame is made of 2” x 2” steel with round bar. It took one night for an operator using a snowcat to set in the park and for hand crew to shape the transitions. The Toyota T was used in the rail jam and was also open to the public.
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