PARK UPDATE_2/DEC/2015_Donovaly,SVK_First park opened!

View of "Zahradky" from "Priblizovacy" lift 

Winter season in Slovakia starts. Some resorts are already open, some will be opened in following December days. But how does it look with snowparks? Can you already hit some rails or jumps on snow? Yes you can! There's one place in the whole country that has its terrain park already built. And that place is Donovaly, well Riders Park Donovaly.

Ski resort Park Snow Donovaly opened its gates last November weekend and despite other resorts already with some rails set up on the side of the slope.

Runs open

Even with not much of natural snow and recent rain, resorts still runs 2 lifts and 4 snowpark features. Snowpark consists of 3 rails and 1 mailbox which are devided into two sections.

Bottom section consists of, from top, street rail (single bar), down rail (flat bar) and mailbox (tanker) which is slightly kinked so it looks like down-flat mailbox.

Bottom section of the park

Street rail with a nice long take-off

Flat bar rail in the middle

Down-flat like mailbox

Even though it's only man-made snow and the park is limited it is in very good shape and you can even hike it and have fun on the bottom section. But if you want to hit 4 features on the way down, then buy a ticket. Day pass costs ca. 10 EUR and you will also support the shapers that do really good job. Every day the park is perfectly shaped which I witnessed at the end of the day. Julo and Janci just got out of their shapers-house and with rakes prepared the park for the next day.

Shapers at work

So if you want to hit a well shaped park at the beginning of the season, then hit Riders Park Donovaly. Here yet a short clip from Wednesday.

Dono_first hits
Looking for open snowpark? Only possible @ RIDERS PARK Donovaly...few hits from yesterday!///Chces uz jazdit v parku? Zatial jedina moznost na Donovaloch....zopar zaberov zo vcera!
Posted by TFT on Thursday, December 3, 2015

/OJ