Has anyone ridden Winter Parks DH yet

The place to go to get into DH (is WP)

Take your brother there. Compared to Keystone's Double Diamonds the WP DH is way easier. But it does offer the opportunity to practice berms, jumping, hard braking and cornering. As the tails are way more smooth your bro probably get's more runs in before the hands give up.

As far as stunts go: There is a freeriding area at the end of Long Trail. It offers some North Shore sections, a ladder of a ridge and a drop into a transition. I wouldn't call this exactly beginner level but as a warm-up into the season or for those who got the basics dialed on stairs etc it will do.

I took my wife, daughter and son to WP this year and Keystone last year. While they did one run in Keystone (down the DDs), they did 5 or 6 in WP.

And hey, if you want to challenge somebody: Go Mountain Goat in WP. That is a pretty natural freeride challenge. If you clean everything but the small uphill you are a pretty good. If you clean everything you are really a good rider!

Don't waste your time!

went there today and was dissapointed, the only trail that was open was "Downhill" and it is fun fast cruiser run but gets boring without having any thing else to ride. Mountain goat was closed due to them putting in a new chairlift. The other bad thing was they shut down the lift way to soon even though it was not raining all that much-light drizzle all day. When we asked the lift ops why it was closed they said "the mechanics shut it down due to too much water for the wheels or something" I then said maybe it was because they were not making enough money on lift tickets because there was only about 25 people riding it and he just smirked and said "I don't make that call". SOunded pretty lame to me. They did refund us $10 which was a plus. But i feel as though I wasted gas going there.

My advice is wait until they open more trails and and call the ticket office to find out about the trail status, because the 1-800 number for activities said every trail was open. Lie.

I took my bro up last wed. He got in about 6 good runs before he called it a day and I went up for 2 more. The WP trails are very smooth, but there are alot of brake bumps before most of the corners. The Downhill trail was fun and I could see it becoming a A-line style of trail, but they have alot of work to do before it gets there. The Long trail and the Cheyane trail were very twisty turny trails with burms all over the place.

The Biggest thing that I likes about WP was the amount of turns the trails had. Cornering is my weakest part of riding, so I was abnle to really focus on my cornering technique without having to worry about any obsticals. The bigest down side to WP was the lack of techy trails, or at least open trails. I honestly can't remember having to roll over a single rock that required leaning back. Also most the stunts they had were very beginer and almost killed the flow of the trail. At the top of The Downhill, there is a section of 4 or 5 six foot tables. I got all excited, but based on the section of trail, these tables needed to have as least a 10-12 foot table in order to land to a trany. On the other hand when we were there the trail crew was in the middle of constructing a very large wall ride by the DJ section.

I think in the next 2-3 years you could flip a coin between Keystone and WP and either way have a great day