With a few days to kill before our on course training begins on Wednesday I knew I couldn't sit about in the apartment without getting way too stir crazy, so today I headed out to Park City Resort for a day in the Park. This place was no joke, there is a serious park here!
With two lines of medium jumps and one larger set in the park, hundreds of rails, boxes and other jibs and a fairly decent pipe I was happy with my reduced price ticket which only gave access to the park chair. Aside from feeling fairly inept in my park riding abilities and my outfit was definitely not up to current fashion standards (tight pants, tall t's, tucked in pants to ski boots, it was all the norm) I had a great day getting more confident hitting larger lines of jumps and riding a few rails too.
Here is a view of the 'Kings Crown' Park on the ridge. The afternoons mission? I think not, these jumps are massive, 80+ft!!
Park City itself is a fairly ritzy resort town, though the urban sprawl around it is certainly not that classy. We are staying almost in the parking lot of a large outlet shopping centre, ahh the serenity.
The competition here is set up a little differently to the other Nor-Am's as it is a US Grand Prix race. The course is likely to be fairly challenging. We will have two training days and then qualifications and finals are on separate days. Finals day will include concerts, lots of media (this is televised on NBC in a week or so) and lots more noise than we are used to. With a World Cup standard field I will be very much focussed on how I ride the course rather than expecting any results.
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| Check out my new helmet/goggle combo post steamboat! |
Sending smiles and steezy park rat vibes from Park City, wish me luck!
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