Challenging snow conditions

Posted by Steve Petrie on 17 February 2010 | 0 Comments

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Mother nature has a sense of humor. After battling for weeks in the rain to the build the pipe at Cypress Bowl, drier but not that cold weather conditions have turned the flat bottom of the pipe into sugar for the first two days of training.

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Fine tuning the pipe

Posted by Steve Petrie on 10 February 2010 | 3 Comments

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With three days to go until the start of halfpipe training at Cypress Bowl the ASP crew continues to shape the walls and dial in the start platform.

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Arena Snowparks Halfpipe crew

Posted by Steve Petrie on 8 February 2010 | 0 Comments

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ASP has assembled an elite team of pipe builders and shapers for the Winter Games. These guys have been working in some of the most challenging conditions possible to make the pipe at Cypress happen.

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Half pipe shaping up and nearly finished

Posted by Steve Petrie on 6 February 2010 | 0 Comments

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The Arena Snowparks crew has been putting in some long days to get the halfpipe ready for Olympic competition.  Snow conditions have been soft which made for some good cutting on Friday and saw shaping crews cutting the vert line and re-setting form boards to contain the snow.

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Half pipe shaping up

Posted by Steve Petrie on 3 February 2010 | 35 Comments

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Despite some mild conditions the pipe build at Cypress Bowl is progressing along.

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