Miguel Naughton wrote:

> for walk-up snowpipe access.  I think there's a market for this, at
> least for ski hills close to towns.  Jeez, with an insulated tent
> and refrigeration system, it would be possible to stay open through
> the summer.  After all, this sort of approach was used for cities to
> get ice at the turn of the last century.

Indeed. There are suburban skate-parks.  I've always though that a
terrain park was more ideally suited to being in a building built on a
hillside in the 'burbs, where the people are, rather than on a mountain
in the middle of nowhere.  It's not like part rats are there for the
outdoor mountain experience, after all.  Pipe in some tunes, invite the
"lifestyle" magazines and Blue Torch/Fuel TV, have some overpriced
burgers and a gear shop at the bottom, and off you go...

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