oh, and yeah, Bear Valley is not very big. I mean, maybe compaired to some east coast resorts, I am sure it has it beat in vertical feet. But the fact that the whole bowl under that yellow shaded area is hardly ever open due to elevation, the fact that they dont build parks anymore, the fact that the mountain manager has actually told people to leave the mountain and never come back because they asked them why the took the parks out of the resort, the fact that it ususally takes me 30 seconds to a minute to get from the top to the bottom....
I dunno...its hard for me to ride there anymore. I come over to vist my family for holidays and I have trouble riding there. It just has such a negative vibe to it.
The story I like telling the best, is when the old owner of the mountain came up on his snowmobile to the top of a comp, and kicked somebody's snowboard down the backside, out of bounds, side of the mountain. When the guy said, "hey what the hell, that was my snowboard" he said "hey fuck you, if you dont like it you can just leave, or maybe you can have your daddy buy you a ski resort too and do what you want"
