[AtomikMan]

Remember when: it was called Mountain Creek.......but the locals still called it Vernon Valley?

Remember when: Mountain Creek closed to biking mid-season in mid-2000?

Remember when: when the mountain reopened as Diablo Freeride Park in mid-2003?

Remember when: riding was weekends only, and the season was only Memorial-thru-Labor day?

Remember when: OTB to Breakout was "the easy way down"?

Remember when: Triple Drop to Evil Bob was "the hard way down?"

Remember when: Triple Drop had no ladder bridges?

Remember when: Alpine had no wall rides?

Remember when: Alpine didn't exist yet?

Remember when: Slayer started at the top of Lower Breakout?

Remember when: Waterboy was still 100% intact?

Remember when: People actually rode Deceit?

Remember when: you were allowed to ride ALL of BMW?

Remember when: well, what do YOU remember?

 

[jcaramia]

Remember in 2006 at Diabloween when the prizes they thew out to the crowd were actually good?

EDIT: cool idea for a thread by the way

 

[FastBandit]

Remember when there used to be 2 cheese wedge kickers?!?

 

[Ironjunk]

I remember going down the original alpine slide.

 

[IH8Rice]

i remember more people getting airlifted out

 

[IAMAPRO]

Remember when there was a jump line under the lift, above Phantom?

 

[IAMAPRO]

We used to hang on hcor?

 

[Hesh To Steel]

There aren't 2 cheese wedges anymore? When did that happen??

 

[Electric_City]

"Grip Rock" was actually hard to ride and not everyone would do it? (does anyone know what this feature was? You all ride it on a daily basis. It used to be called this on Mtn. Creek's website.)

Upper breakout was hard?

The snow making pipes weren't covered with dirt.

Karpiel's, SC Super 8's, Big Hit's w/24's, Shiver DC's, Monster T's, Gazzi 3.0's and Azonic Love Seats were the thing to own?

When Poop Chute followed the fall line and your feet would rub the walls from washing out?

When Face Plant was on The Jack (5' drop onto the ski slope)?

Test Of Metal ran off of Lower Breakout? Skipping CDS and continuing down where Domboo is now?

Diablo would build more than one trail/feature a year?

The trails weren't groomed?

Deliverance ran past that stupid snow making pipe and came out above the Cheese wedges?

The Pallet drop?

When the US open wasn't a sellout, but locals who would compete?

US open was in the fall?

 

[jbro]

remember action park had the cannonball loop. i think someone drowned in it. Action park was super sketchy. They use to let you ski down the mountain in summer, wearing these mini snowmobile looking boots.

They had thes tanks that shot tennis balls.

Awesome.

 

[mklie]

ok, this is too good. How about this one. Remember when there was no Gondola but a skate park with concrete bowls there and they bungie jump? How about the Playboy club, hey they would be a great prise for who won the race.

 

[bobushka king]

Remember when Morning Wood was a trail 90% of the "features" on it looked like they were built by a drunk gorilla

 

[Junior]

Old crap chute came out right above the hip before lower ripper?

Dominion was first built?

The phrase "Gazzi 3.0" says a lot in itself...

 

[jcaramia]

"Grip Rock" was actually hard to ride and not everyone would do it? (does anyone know what this feature was? You all ride it on a daily basis. It used to be called this on Mtn. Creek's website.)

Upper breakout was hard?

The snow making pipes weren't covered with dirt.

Karpiel's, SC Super 8's, Big Hit's w/24's, Shiver DC's, Monster T's, Gazzi 3.0's and Azonic Love Seats were the thing to own?

When Poop Chute followed the fall line and your feet would rub the walls from washing out?

When Face Plant was on The Jack (5' drop onto the ski slope)?

Test Of Metal ran off of Lower Breakout? Skipping CDS and continuing down where Domboo is now?

Diablo would build more than one trail/feature a year?

The trails weren't groomed?

Deliverance ran past that stupid snow making pipe and came out above the Cheese wedges?

The Pallet drop?

When the US open wasn't a sellout, but locals who would compete?

US open was in the fall?

What was grip rock?

 

[demo 9]

remember the old berm gap on 1st generation alpine. the old double going into morning wood.

remember the old start gate(it is still there)

remember when diablo rented sundays *after they rented big hits*

Remember Fat lip *its still there BTW*

*on a side note-deliverance is still ride able, if you know where to find it

 

[pinkshirtphotos]

When Shawn and I got along

Tempest was called dairy queen becuase if you took a right at the first berm after the 6 foot drop you would come out behind dairy queen.

When the go around to the flume drop was cool

Ripper wasn't so eroded.

People still rode

Hcor was home

Everyone and their cousin had a kona stinky

 

[DownhillR3]

When Face Plant was on The Jack (5' drop onto the ski slope)?

Test Of Metal ran off of Lower Breakout? Skipping CDS and continuing down where Domboo is now?


The trails weren't groomed?

Deliverance ran past that stupid snow making pipe and came out above the Cheese wedges?

Agreed. Twist isn't the same anymore.

 

[quiksilver]

remember when diablo rented sundays *after they rented big hits*

Don't forget Cannondale Gemini's as well.

Upper Dominion with no jumps = Swanson

We made awesome videos

 

[WhoRyder]

I remember there were no forums for people to complain about everything....

 

[jonKranked]

When Rodney was still rideable.

When Shawn showed up at the mountain on a regular basis.

 

[Jim Mac]

Remember when: it was called Mountain Creek.......but the locals still called it Vernon Valley?

Remember when: Mountain Creek closed to biking mid-season in mid-2000?

Remember when: when the mountain reopened as Diablo Freeride Park in mid-2003?

Remember when: riding was weekends only, and the season was only Memorial-thru-Labor day?

Remember when: OTB to Breakout was "the easy way down"?

Remember when: Triple Drop to Evil Bob was "the hard way down?"

Remember when: Triple Drop had no ladder bridges?

Remember when: Alpine had no wall rides?

Remember when: Alpine didn't exist yet?

Remember when: Slayer started at the top of Lower Breakout?

Remember when: Waterboy was still 100% intact?

Remember when: People actually rode Deceit?

Remember when: you were allowed to ride ALL of BMW?

Remember when: well, what do YOU remember?

Do you remember in a previous life it was called Action Park?

 

[IAMAPRO]

Remember when Morning Wood was a trail 90% of the "features" on it looked like they were built by a drunk gorilla

Just spit coffe out of my nose!! So true.

 

[AtomikMan]

Do you remember in a previous life it was called Action Park?

Or...Accident Park...Traction Park...etc...

If you think there's a lot of injuries at Diablo? You should have seen Action Park in it's heyday.

My friend and I literally ran someone over (and proceded to drag/push them an additional 25') on the Alpine slide. Ah, the good ol' days.

 

[Cant Climb]

Remember when they had a race in 99' and the night before all of the buildings burnt to the ground......

Remember when the DH series was called "The Kamikaze DH series" and was run by Fastrax...

Remember when Clayton Harper used to break his back laying 70% of the trail that still exists today....

Remember when they had an EastCoast Interbike at Mountain Creek....

Remember when they used to rent Specialized xc bikes for full-on DH runs and kids came back with Mauled up faces...

 

[E. Fleming]

yes to ALL.

 

[TheTruth]

O ****, I just remembered morning wood and evil bob.

I also remember when people rode dirt merchant and fat lip. What about the rock drop going into the jack? What about the jack?

What about when bushwhack and exodus were connected?

What about the hip on alpine?

 

[jonKranked]

What about the hip on alpine?

That was Rodney. It's still there, they just let it get overgrown and pushed dirt onto the line in.


Speaking of Slayer and Evil Bob, are those trailheads still there? I've been trying to keep my eyes open for them, but I always manage to miss them.

 

[jcaramia]

That was Rodney. It's still there, they just let it get overgrown and pushed dirt onto the line in.


Speaking of Slayer and Evil Bob, are those trailheads still there? I've been trying to keep my eyes open for them, but I always manage to miss them.

I rode evil bob last week. Still lots of fun but needs work, slayer is still there and is in good ridable condition.

 

[bobushka king]

Slayer is off of greenhorn now, right before it connects with the end of lower breakout.

 

[jonKranked]

I rode evil bob last week. Still lots of fun but needs work, slayer is still there and is in good ridable condition.

Slayer is off of greenhorn now, right before it connects with the end of lower breakout.

Is there any signage for either trail? Or some sort of landmark? Or maybe I just shouldn't go rocketing through those sections

 

[FastBandit]

Remember when Morning Wood was a trail 90% of the "features" on it looked like they were built by a drunk gorilla

Will the creators of those features please step forward.

 

[Hesh To Steel]

O ****, I just remembered morning wood and evil bob.

I also remember when people rode dirt merchant and fat lip. What about the rock drop going into the jack? What about the jack?

What about when bushwhack and exodus were connected?

What about the hip on alpine?

I still ride dirt merchant! Rode fat lip a few times last season as well, but I think staying on twist is more fun.

the jack is fun as hell too. Not sure which rock drop you're referring to, though. The only one I can think of is the little 3-4 footer to flat after you cross the ski slope.


Also, there's a sign for slayer now, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't there last season.

 

[Runner]

After the kicker, watch to the left and you'll see slayer.

 

[jonKranked]

After the kicker, watch to the left and you'll see slayer.

the banana kicker? (the curved wooden jump?)

 

[Hesh To Steel]

Yep, the one on greenhorn. Not the one on Reality Show.

 

[FOXROX]

slayer is int the section of green horn where green horn and lower brake out meet. there is a rather large rock to the right once you enter that part of green horn (some people jump it, but it is a good sighn to lay on the breaks) and there is a sign marking slayer.

 

[DownhillR3]

I still ride dirt merchant! Rode fat lip a few times last season as well, but I think staying on twist is more fun.

the jack is fun as hell too. Not sure which rock drop you're referring to, though. The only one I can think of is the little 3-4 footer to flat after you cross the ski slope.


Also, there's a sign for slayer now, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't there last season.

The rock drop on twist was just as you came to the ski slope where it's just a mellow grade down & across the ski trail to the smaller 3-4 foot drop your talking about.

 

[sundaydoug]

Speaking of Slayer and Evil Bob, are those trailheads still there? I've been trying to keep my eyes open for them, but I always manage to miss them.

Yea man the entrance to Slayer is on Greenhorn. It's on the left right before the merge with Lower Breakout. Look for the sign on the left.

 

[TheTruth]

I want a trail called drunken gorilla, with terrain like evil bob but with weird wooden features like those on morning wood. Except more of them.

 

[ska todd]

I ride Fat Lip & The Jack all the time. Especially Twist to The Jack to Domboo to ToM (or into lower Ripper)...maybe the best run on the mtn. A couple weeks back, Jack & I rode some of the old stuff and cleared out some trees that fell. They need some work but are still alive. All the newbs complain about the tech trails, but they used to be race courses in 99/00! Utah, Slayer, old Triple Drop, Dirt Merch all were raced on then.

-ska todd