 Poster: A snowHead
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New Zealand's most talked-about ski and board development is the 2-year-old Snowpark, near Wanaka on the south island. This custom-designed freestyle terrain park is attracting a lot of international interest, including that of the world's highest-paid snowboarder Shaun White, from San Diego in California.
This report from Stuff.co.nz.
The Snowpark website is well worth a look.
[NB. The headline income of Shaun White is quoted in NZ dollars]
Anyone seen Snowpark?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Here's a photo of the new 'superpipe' at Snowpark - reckoned to be one of the finest on the planet
There's some info coming in on this. More details to come.
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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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There's clearly money in it... Why cant we get one of these in the northern hemisphere?
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There's clearly money in it
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Very true, in the form of
Not sure of the going price of one of these.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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back in the days... of 1997 
snowboarders already seemed much more dominant in NZ. Lots of Japanese all on snowboards as I recall and they're usually not short of a bob or two -so I guess the resorts have made sure they cater for them properly
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David Goldsmith, they're only an add on for a snow cat, usually driven by the snowcat's internal systems so not perhaps as expensive as you might think, basically it's a modified conveyor belt design and they've been arround for ages
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i think both Cairngorm and Nevis range have Pipe cutters these days.
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Yeah Tignes had a decent pipe last year. However the park there is absolutely shoking. They could do SO much more but just dont want to. Probably scared of loads of people injuring themselves or something. Or maybe because the European resorts are run by more seperate groups than north american and southern hemishphere ones. But no one in Europe can seem to organise a decent park, possibly with the exception of Portes de Soleil (going on heresay, I havent been there though, so I cant really say!). But it would be really easy in some places to build the jumps up in the ground so they done need masses of snow to make big kickers. CAN WE HAVE MORE ORGANISATION PLEASE!
not that anyone is going to be listening 
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I saw a couple of pipe cutters at workin Livigno in 2003. Very inpressive piece of kit.
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No more impressive than a quality combine harvester, surely?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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That's a tough call David 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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David Goldsmith, you've obviously been chaffing to get that remark in.
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David@traxvax, Its been thrashing around in my head as well 
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