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The Triangular Polyhedron

Posted Mar 16th 2009 1:22PM by MamaJay - 11 comments - Average rating 9.70 of 10 ratings

    Early last week some friends and I made a last minute decision to go and hit a certain “played out” gap jump in Grizzly Gulch the following morning. We got a relatively early start and got some cool views while hiking up in the dark.
 

 
Once we got to the jump, we got straight to work fixing everything up and getting it prepped to hit.  We had to reshape the lip, then pack out the in-run and fix a massive hump and compression near the bottom of it.
 

 

 
Once everything was set up and we watched our snowboarder friends do a couple speed checks, Balken and I booted up to the top of the in-run to get things started.
 

 

 

 
Unfortunately, right after the first hits a headwind came in that made it impossible to get enough speed so we had to call it.  It has been really warm and sunny ever since, so the snow is completely baked and we have to wait for more snow to get another try.
 

 
The day after this jump session, I skied in the US Freeskiing Nationals at Snowbird and qualified in third place. In the semifinals I picked out a pretty burly line, but misjudged my trajectory on the first air and got spanked.

This is what happened:

 
Miraculously, both my Night Trains and I are ok.