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Building jumps at resorts

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snowmosexual
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Has anyone built any jumps at resorts. I could understand ski patrol being cool with it at any west coast mountain but in the east coast they seem pretty uptight about it. My crew has a sick spot to build a jump line at my mountain but we are worried its a for sure pass pulled.
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shin-bang
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lol funny story. so me and my friend were building a jump and 2 ski partrol dudes ski up to us. theyre like what are you guys doing? were like, building a jump doods. and then they were like, can we hit it? and then they hit it and they both landed on theyre backs due to landing backseat hahahah
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shin-bang
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but anyways, i would just go up and ask them if its ok, rather than taking an hour to build it, then have ski patrol come over and say you cant hit it.
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gperry1
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Once me and my friends saw these kids build this sick jump to traverse with the tips of their skis and the ski patrol didn't care (east coast)
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Bum.Life
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My buddies and I got our passes pulled at Squaw a couple of years ago for building a jump. Haven't done it since on resort territory
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Mr.Huck
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Bum.LifeMy buddies and I got our passes pulled at Squaw a couple of years ago for building a jump. Haven't done it since on resort territory


That's pretty sad about Squaw. We build at least one booter every year. Last year a few patrolers came by and hit it. Dude was hauling into it and went huge while vigorously rolling down the windows. He was stoked though.
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galardogod
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Every year at Sunday River we build really sick preseason jumps and have a huckfest then shitty old ass ski patrol guys tear it down.
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DIX~
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All I want to do is build some sick booters in the trees and not get in shit for it. Seriously so done with park skiing but building a jump = clipped pass at my mountain, really fucking sucks. Edits of people hitting jumps at resorts make me so fucking jealous, that's all I want skiing to be
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Holte
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Nah, West Coast ski patrol aren't too stoked on jump building either. You gotta go hike waaaay out to where no gaper will ever find the jump (and break their gaper necks) for ski patrol to be okay with it in my experience.

Too many lawsuits these days.
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brett_fisher
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a_shaky_giflol funny story. so me and my friend were building a jump and 2 ski partrol dudes ski up to us. theyre like what are you guys doing? were like, building a jump doods. and then they were like, can we hit it? and then they hit it and they both landed on theyre backs due to landing backseat hahahah


a_shaky_gifbut anyways, i would just go up and ask them if its ok, rather than taking an hour to build it, then have ski patrol come over and say you cant hit it.


i ski at the same mt as my homey shaky and i have had ski patrol be cill with it and then theres always this one old bich who make me take the jumps down i have never seen here in the ski patrol vest hahah >.
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Mr.Huck
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DIX~All I want to do is build some sick booters in the trees and not get in shit for it. Seriously so done with park skiing but building a jump = clipped pass at my mountain, really fucking sucks. Edits of people hitting jumps at resorts make me so fucking jealous, that's all I want skiing to be


I thought black comb was one of your home mts. It seems like people build stuff there all the time, although you don't really need to because there is so much great natural.

HolteNah, West Coast ski patrol aren't too stoked on jump building either. You gotta go hike waaaay out to where no gaper will ever find the jump (and break their gaper necks) for ski patrol to be okay with it in my experience.

Too many lawsuits these days.


I think the trick is to carve out instead of build. Try to use natural terrain and just do enough to get the job done. If you build a huge wedge, ski patrol is probably going to get their panties in a twist, but if you carve out a side hill hit, they might leave it alone. There are places in the back bowls where people build jumps all the time because they want fresh snow for the landing, but that's all it has going for it. You hit it a few times and it's bombed out. There are plenty of other place where half the work is already done for you.

I made a thread awhile back on building bc booters, and this is kind of a repeat.
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yungsteeze
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when an old bich makes you take down a jump
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stupendous-man
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You make jumps where people dont find them, or slightly out of resort boundary. sidecountry jumps 101...
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DIX~
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Mr.HuckI thought black comb was one of your home mts. It seems like people build stuff there all the time, although you don't really need to because there is so much great natural.


Won't be skiing Whistler at all this season unfortunately but yeah it is great there.
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Dr.DickButt
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saga_kity04i ski at the same mt as my homey shaky and i have had ski patrol be cill with it and then theres always this one old bich who make me take the jumps down i have never seen here in the ski patrol vest hahah >.


Holy shit brett, this is like a new low for you.
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cydwhit
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Mr.HuckI thought black comb was one of your home mts. It seems like people build stuff there all the time, although you don't really need to because there is so much great natural.



I think the trick is to carve out instead of build. Try to use natural terrain and just do enough to get the job done. If you build a huge wedge, ski patrol is probably going to get their panties in a twist, but if you carve out a side hill hit, they might leave it alone. There are places in the back bowls where people build jumps all the time because they want fresh snow for the landing, but that's all it has going for it. You hit it a few times and it's bombed out. There are plenty of other place where half the work is already done for you.

I made a thread awhile back on building bc booters, and this is kind of a repeat.


Yeah, just find a good spot and carve and shape one out. Schweitzer is usually pretty down with this, I don't know what would happen if you built a full on booter though
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chronic_illness
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I've never skied on the east coast so I don't have any experience with east coast ski patrol, but I've discovered that it's way better to build a jump out of the way of everyone else. Just find a place that requires a short hike to get to so that gapers don't stumble upon it and get hurt. My buddies and I have built several jumps at sunshine without any issues.
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AKhoodrat
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Only real jumps at my mountain are built by my friends and I
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