 Poster: A snowHead
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I went to have a slide today at Castleford and duly popped my £1 in the locker and thought no more of it.
When I had finished I noticed that my £1 was not returned as has usually been the case.
So it looks like Castleford XScape thinks us northerners are as willing to be stiffed as they do at Milton Keynes 
To add insult to injury, the snow at Cas today was CRAP! The amount of snow they had scraped off for the rails etc and the resulting funneling of traffic left the place making me feel like I would have been better off on ice skates!
Sorry to rant, but seeing how much effort they put into preparing the slope for a small number of people resulting in the majority having to put up with a skied out slope before tea time is starting to make me seriously consider going back to dry slope skiing at Rosendale at a much reduced cost to myself.
If they want to be so anal, WTF cannot they make a big pile of snow and leave it at the top out of the way. Bring it onto the slope for each rail night, then push it back there out of the way till next time so saving the slope surface from being raped.
Even better - why don't they make life easy for themselves and just sink anchor points in the slope well below the surface, make the rails with dendrix ramps and side slopes and save all the labour required shovelling snow to reduce staff numbers if they want to make savings and give us punters a better standard of slope.
Sorry guys but today made me feel so down about skiing.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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rockyrobin, which lockers are you talking about? the ones right in front of ski hire give you your money back (or they did on Monday night).
without "big up" to the slope at cas too much, you don't want to try milton keynes at the moment. It is tonnes of sugar on shot ice.
personally i agree about the jumps etc, especially when they are still left in for our club session on sunday am. If they could keep to one side, like we do if we put a course of gates up, it would probably help. They are not there in the early part of the week though.
Thw slope seems to have a good layer 3"-5", with a 2"-3" icy layer, then back to good again below that. I don;t know why, but that is what we go through when putting in gates at the moment. It sounds like most of that good layer has been scooped up and put around the jumps 
make sure you leave a note to richard (commercial manager) or katy (slope manager) about your feelings. The boarders have a loud collective voice, and are generally regular customers. If xscape think they are loosing more business than they are gaining, they will change tack.
I know that they are keen not put anything in the snow that could be left in when taking out later. eg they used to use a lot of big polystrene blocks for the volume until they found little bits that break off it end up blocking the water recycling pumps.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Lockers on friday didnt take the pound away, maybe you need to learn how to use them.
As for the snow condition, what were you expecting? Knee deep powder per chance?
The park toys are all at the sides which still gives a decent slope width so dont see what your gripe is
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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2plank, To wards the end of the month they increase the number of slides from 3 or 4 down one side to about 8 or 9 and have even had a large half moon slide in the middle before. They do this for the once a month special they do on the last Friday of the month. They start building about a week before on then fence off the slides taking even more space up. It becomes a nightmare when its busy especially if there are lessons on the main slope. This is the reason I don't go in the evenings and I steer clear of the end of the month as for the lockers it wouldn't surprise me.
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Freestyle is every thursday and friday with roughly the same layout each week apart from a few tweeks.
Look at it from xscapes point of view. The freestyle night brings a big crowd week in week out. Its guaranteed income of a sizeable nature. Plus i see it as a good use of the slope as other than for beginners learning it gets a lot boring.
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FAQ
......was it yours
They now have the outer casing on the coin tray on the cubicle lockers same as at MK.
Things will change when the competition gets up and running 
