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Icy landings

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spinverted
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All the landings in our park are fucking icy as hell from gaypers taking all the snow out. The mountain grooms it but within an hour its back to ice. Is there any way to fix this other than waiting for a new snowfall? I was thinking they could push some snow around and till it out but there's gotta be an easier way.
Feb 24 2006 6:55PM
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Badfish2
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you could take an ice pick/shovel to it.. if you're ambitious.
Feb 24 2006 6:57PM
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Aenigma
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Or to the kids that screw up the landings. That may be a bit extreme though.
Feb 24 2006 7:12PM
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seemeski
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Well, you can't just put snow on the ice because it will get scraped off again fast. You could ice pick it, then throw some snow on it.
Feb 24 2006 7:21PM
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spinverted
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Wouldn't salting the landings make them more icy?
Feb 24 2006 7:35PM
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Dan-Man
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oh ya icy landings are whear its at
Feb 24 2006 7:51PM
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LostCarKeys
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better then an icy lip or in run where to loose tracking and go off the jump sideways
Feb 24 2006 7:55PM
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linedawg
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no ice can be looked apon as a good or better thing all is evil!!!
Feb 24 2006 8:10PM
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Switchstyle
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id buy that...thats also why a lot of east coasters absolutly kill it on west parks because they are used to a lot of ice.
Feb 24 2006 8:20PM
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l337
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pussies, use your edges. there is no such thing as a soft landing the twin cities area parks.
Feb 24 2006 9:32PM
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spinverted
Posts: 323 - Karma: 11
They salt roads because it lowers the freezing point of the ice making it liquid. But in the park there's a lot of fucking snow so it would melt the snow but then it would freeze again because of all the snow.

But it is funny as hell to watch someone do a 450 onto a box and 270 out to perfect landing and then fall on their ass cause of all the fucking ice.
Feb 24 2006 9:38PM
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K2skier12001
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my mnt salts the lips and landings..and it makes them stiff but you can still hold an edge on...it deffinatly does help
Feb 24 2006 9:43PM
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potatofarmer
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I would be like. yo you deff. ski at jiminy peak, but i know everyone there any I dont know you
Feb 24 2006 10:42PM
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ski8990
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yup
Feb 24 2006 10:49PM
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bmxican_89
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all i dont is i almost stomped 270 on 270 off and landed and it was so icy my feet exploded out from under me and i slapped the ground with my whole left side. it was a weird fall.
Feb 24 2006 10:55PM
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STAUSS
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just deal and when the pain in your lower back and shins becomes to great, go take some oxy cottin
Feb 24 2006 11:39PM
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skiierman
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Umm... How about you stop being a pussy? It's not that bad to fall on.
Feb 24 2006 11:53PM
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hartig
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..or bousquet, but then again i know everyone there too and hes not there
Feb 24 2006 11:57PM
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freezed
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you are wrong for sure.


salting the landings does, in fact, make them more icy.
Feb 25 2006 12:02AM
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reggyboy
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salting wont work that will just refreese the stuff making it worse,

whole bunch of snowmaking may do it or take a snow rake out on that bitch and scrape away till u get some slush
Feb 25 2006 8:11AM
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skiierman
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Actually no, you are wrong. When we have icey ramps (chairliftie) we use salt so that we can actually have a loading/unloading ramp we can work with and fix instead of just having a solid block of ice.
Feb 25 2006 8:55AM
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D_Mezz
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i live in the midwest= ice all year long
Feb 25 2006 9:32AM
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Dieter1080
Posts: 244 - Karma: 66
i practice on an indoor slope wich is nothing but ice,
learn to live with it and don't crash...
Feb 25 2006 9:47AM
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bobs
Posts: 4801 - Karma: 868
you put salt on jumps to melt them a bit and then because of all the snow it'll melt and then freeze again harder and need less packing so that probly wouldnt be a good idea. It works on roads cause theres no snow to refreeze the ice after it melts
Feb 25 2006 11:03AM
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user098123
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If you are skiing in the midwest our out east, its not very cold lately if you haven't noticed haha. If you use salt to melt some of the ice, it should soften it up a little bit and it wouldn't refreeze because it isn't very cold outside...but thats just what I would think, I'm not absolutely positive.
Feb 25 2006 11:34AM
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ski8990
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no, salting doesnt really do much of anything when it is cold out. It is when it is warm, like at hood or whistler in the summer, when they salt everything to firm it up.
Feb 25 2006 11:37AM
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Steazy-E
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do NOTsalt icy landings when the temp is freezing or below. youll be better off with ice skates if you do.
Feb 25 2006 3:32PM
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chrismoJBEATS
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land flat
Feb 25 2006 3:36PM
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