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BC booters into... firm snow?
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so the only movies i've seen so far this year are corduroy and photoplay. both were pretty sick, especially corduroy. but i have to ask, what's the deal with building huge bc booters into 4 inches of baked snow? i mean cool, i guess. it seems like it would make it a lot easier to claim switch pow landings when it's not really into pow. if you're going to do that though, why waste the time building a huge jump? why not just film in the park?
don't get me wrong, i really enjoyed both movies, and they each had a lot of real pow jumps in them too, which was cool. i just think it was more fun to watch marc andre or EP throw 9s into a foot of fresh instead of 4 inches of baked.
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most of those umps were built late in spring or early in sumer, hence the baked landings
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im sure any mountain would build them any element theyd like
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well, to be honest, not all skiiers are fucking amazing at landing switch in powder.
yes, there were some pros busting out with that shit a few seasons ago, but there are still alot of people catching up/getting it dialed in.
do you really expect every switch landing to be in 4 feet of pow, from the very beginning?
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but there are just things you can't achieve in a park. very few parks have cliffs, for example. Very few parks have 100+ foot jumps. Or jumps over trees. Or large cornices. Or crevasses. These are not easily manufacturable elements.
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Late season... generally speaking, when there's good snow, most people who have a choice are putting in days actually skiing rather than hitting jumps.
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not just thatbut like people can film park jumos more often then they can build a bc booter cuase the park jumps are always there and bc booters arent
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Spring booters are sick for doing tricks and getting cool shots
not sw landings
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see peps segment from 1242, no spring snow there!
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not too good of an idea, sounds like it would suck to fall, you would get bad ice burn
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with the exception of whistler and hood the parks here were all closed by late april, I believe some of those shots were taken late may and June, maybe even July.
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later in the season, different areas, different sun exposures, whatever. There's a million reasons.
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photoplay was done shooting in may...just the sun...living in the pacific north west makes for less sun until late winter/spring. Plus we have a tiny crew so I have to film most stuff. Glad you enjoyed though.
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its still really hard to land on baked landings, perhaps even harder cause that snow is STICKY
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people are forgetting how hard it is to build a booter from fresh powder...you need to let things bake.
when you see a fresh pow booter landing, odds are the jump has bee there for at least a week setting up
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