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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. In fact, the basic way in which many resorts approach the development of mountainous terrain has been affected by the advent of these winter wonderlands for air-starved boarders. In the beginning Snowboard parks were introduced by many resorts in an effort to control and segregate the radical behavior of snowboarders, many of whom would attempt to catch air anywhere and everywhere. The park became a viable place to exert the collective adrenaline forces of people who wanted to spend as much time in the air as they did on the snow. Soon, however, the concept of the terrain park changed.