{"id":41237,"date":"2013-04-19T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41237"},"modified":"2013-04-19T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:23:02","slug":"whistler-blackcomb-is-shutting-down-the-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41237","title":{"rendered":"Whistler Blackcomb Is Shutting Down The Pipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sports_features2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sports_features2.jpg','popup','width=640,height=397,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sports_features2-tm.jpg\" height=\"124\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sports Features2\" \/><\/a>Due to the high cost of half pipe upkeep <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whistlerblackcomb.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Whistler Blackcomb<\/a><\/strong> decided to close their halfpipe on Sunday, April 21, 2013. But that hasn&#8217;t gone over well with the shred crowd. Canadian national snowboard team<span style=\"font-family:Arial;background-color:#fffefe;\"> member <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial;background-color:#fffefe;\"><strong>Katie Tsuyki<\/strong><\/span> even <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/230\/741\/393\/urge-whistler-blackcomb-for-a-22ft-halfpipe-for-spring-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">started a petition<\/a><\/strong>, according to a post on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piquenewsmagazine.com\/whistler\/halfpipe-closure-triggers-petition\/Content?oid=2457173\" target=\"_blank\">Pique News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Tsuyuki, now is the worst time of year to close the pipe. &#8220;It&#8217;s a big feature and it&#8217;s intimidating for some people to ride when it&#8217;s cold and icy, and I know people wait for spring for it to soften up and you have a bit of leeway before they ride that feature. It&#8217;s a great opportunity for the public, not just athletes, to get out and enjoy it,&#8221; said Tsuyuki, adding that a lot of riders also get distracted by powder and big mountain riding during the winter months, and wait for spring to ride the park and pipe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mountain reportedly says they&#8217;ll keep the halfpipe open if <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadasnowboard.ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snowboard Canada<\/a><\/strong> or others &#8220;provided some funding.&#8221; Otherwise, guess everyone will just have to head to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mammothmountain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mammoth<\/a><\/strong>, huh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piquenewsmagazine.com\/whistler\/halfpipe-closure-triggers-petition\/Content?oid=2457173\" target=\"_blank\">Pique News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the high cost of half pipe upkeep Whistler Blackcomb decided to close their halfpipe on Sunday, April 21, 2013. But that hasn&#8217;t gone over well with the shred crowd. Canadian national snowboard team member Katie Tsuyki even started a petition, according to a post on Pique News. For Tsuyuki, now is the worst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41238,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41237\/revisions\/41238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}