Where to Ski And Snowboard - Big new terrain park for Borovets

Big new terrain park for Borovets

25th January 2012, by Wendy King

Snow Park Borosport, Borovets, Bulgaria

It is billed as the best in Eastern Europe and has opened in Borovets, Bulgaria. It is the region’s big new terrain park.

The new terrain park is an extension of last year’s taster park, and is now more challenging. The park is built by an established German company and is on the ski area’s Popangelov run. It has varied lines of jumps and other features, and has three lines of difficulty in its 610m length.

The upper part is dedicated to expert riders – arranged along it are a huge ring, rocked jump with split spot and a giant 12m table top jump beside them. The middle line in the park has two separate trails. The first is a slope style trail, with a series of a straight rails, followed by an A Frame Box, small table top jumps a 10m spine feature. There is also a 4m quarter-pipe. The second part of the middle line is the jib line, and with a 9m kinked rail and a 10m kinked box. There’s another pipe at the end.

Finally, there is a child’s line with pint-sized replicas of the features already described. So, even novices can have a go on the basics. Another feature of the new park area is that is has its own lift – a surface lift.

But visitors to Borovets who enjoy playing in the terrain parks have a second area at their disposal – a floodlit park in front of the Rila Hotel, which has a pipe and a few jumps.

With the opening of the new terrain park, comes an event calendar of competitions. Snow Park Borosport will host four freestyle races this winter. First is the Borosport Big Air Open ( 4/5 Feb) , then the Saturday Extreme Session (18 Feb), the Air & Jib Challenge (10/11 March) and, finally, the Dragon Slope Style ( 24/25 March).

And snow conditions? Much improved on recent weeks, with heavy spells of new snow. Borovets is currently the best of the bunch in the country, reporting a 200cm top base depth.