Any casual skier/boarder understands the surge of popularity in park skiing & boarding in the last decade and its significance in the growth of skiing.

Vail's local response to nurturing this significant driver of interest in the sport?

~Remove the Terrain Park J-Bar at Liberty that serves the mid-mountain terrain park (and eliminate the staffing needed to run it). Replace it with: Nothing.  Predictable result: more crowding of the Alpine Quad during peak hours.

~Remove the Jib Junction Park Double at Whitetail that serves the mid-mountain terrain park (and eliminate the staffing needed to run it). Replace it with: Nothing.  Predictable result: more crowding of the Express Quad during peak hours.

Vail resorts to their customers: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose

The addition of the Jib Junction chair was a great move by Whitetail that I had advocated for for years before it happened. It took a lot of pressure not only off the Express but also Upper Angel Drop. Normally I'd come early, run laps on everything until it got crowded then use the double to take hot laps through the park. If you wanted to just hit some jumps or jibs it was great, you could keep hitting things in quick succession and really build that muscle memory. Now it's back down to the bottom to crowd up the lift with everyone else. We're also adding traffic to Upper Angel making it a bumped up crowded mess with everyone trying to either head to the park, over to the expert chair or down to Home Run for races. The trail is kind of the main thoroughfare for the mountain and anything that relieves the traffic is a good thing.

Same with Liberty, I hated using the bar but it was more the design of it than anything else. It served the same purpose though, lap the park and keep traffic off the chair. This is what I was afraid of when the resorts were sold. Cut funding to smaller local resorts to save the core destination resorts.