Replying to Making snow hardpack?

Last year I kept running into this problem where my kicker would keep collapsing every time I skied over it. This is after I even added like a bucket of water to each layer on the kicker as I built it.

What else can I do this season to keep the kicker stable and solid? This is really irritating me because last season I built this whole setup just to run into the same problem every time.

For reference, I'm on the east coast, where the snow is relatively wet.