page_title: Terrain park
section_title: Jibs
hierarchical_section_title: Terrain park / Jibs
caption_attribution_description: English: Skier on funbox in terrain park in Levi ski resort in Kittilä, Finland. Suomi: Laskettelija funboxin päällä Levin hiihtokeskuksessa Kittilässä.
context_page_description: A terrain park is an outdoor recreation area containing terrain that allows skiers, snowboarders and snowbikers to perform tricks. Terrain parks have their roots in skateparks and many of the features are common to both.
  From their inception to as recently as the 1980s, ski areas generally banned jumping and any kind of aerial maneuvers, usually under penalty of revoking the offender's lift ticket. By the 1990s, most areas provided snow features specifically catering to aerial snowsports. One of the first in-bounds terrain parks was the snowboard park built in 1990 at Vail's resort. The park was copied soon in other resorts. Today most resorts have terrain parks, with many having multiple parks of various difficulty. Some resorts are almost exclusively terrain parks such as Echo Mountain Park in Evergreen, Colorado and Snow Park in Wanaka, New Zealand. In Colorado there has been a recent trend for defunct resorts such as Squaw Pass to be reopened, catering to terrain park users.
context_section_description: Jibs are any type of fixture which can be ridden with the board/skis either parallel or perpendicular to the snow surface, ridden while spinning around on, or ridden and jumped or tricked from.  Many jib features resemble outdoor items used when snowboarding in urban areas, such as stair handrails, benches, tables, etc.  In the park these feature consist of:
  Rail
  A metal feature, either rounded or with a flat surface, which a skier or snowboarder can slide across (called "jibbing"). Many people confuse rails with wider surfaces with boxes, however these are not, and are just rails with a little UHMWPE on top.
  Box
  Similar to a rail, but wider with an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) surface. May or may not have metal edges. Compare Funbox, for skateboarding.
  Table Top
  Similar to a box, but much wider. Commonly used by beginners who want to become comfortable with box type surfaces before moving on to real boxes. Table Tops are very wide and therefore allow a skier or snowboarder to slide across the surface and is difficult to fall on.
  Trees
  used as natural surfaces and can be found either on or off the trails.
  Rails and boxes have many different shapes and sizes: straight, sloped, curved (often called a "Rainbow"), or kinked.  Rails, especially rainbow, will also be seen curving over obstacles or vehicles.
  Park Bench and Picnic Table
  A funbox type feature that resembles a park bench or picnic table.  The edges are made of metal rails and the surfaces of UHMWPE.  These features provide multiple sliding surfaces.
  Mail Box
  A large diameter metal pipe of varying lengths with a cross-section resembling a mail box.
  Wall ride
  A vertical, or near-vertical, wall-like surface. Most wall rides have another similar surface at the top that is angled down towards the wall, but more perpendicular to the ground (like a sideways funbox attached to the top of the wall ride)
  Barrels
  A more recent addition to terrain parks, barrels are features usually shaped like garbage cans or vertical cylinders with a small jump leading up to it. This feature is jibbed by going off the jump and tapping it in various ways with your skis or snowboard. Variations include spinning to and from the barrel, tapping with different parts of the skis or stalling on top of the barrel.
  Rainbow
  A box or rail that has a hump like a "rainbow."
  Kink
  A box or rail that has one or more "kinks". A kink is a sudden change in angle of a sliding surface. An example of a kinked feature is a F-D-F (flat-down-flat).
  Pole Jam
  A rail that is stuck into a jump at an upward angle
  Tap Feature
  A feature that comes in many shapes and sizes and is meant to be tapped with either the tail or tip end of skis or snowboards.
caption: Skier on funbox in terrain park in Levi, Finland
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