Question for park crew guys

If you're building a legit park there is at least one person making a plan keeping in mind flow, variety of features, snow depth and storage, and traffic issues as well as making a maintenance schedule and keeping a log book.
There are equations you can find with the correct measurements and proportions for jumps.
There's generally some flexibility in terms of changing up features, usually planned builds and adjustments on particular days.
Sometimes other builders will come in when there's a special event in the park.

There are some places where it's not that organized and builds are just based on available features and snow.

@a_burger

At my home hill, park crew sits in a room together while the park crew leader puts images of the features up on a projector 1 by 1. They then proceed to argue about where it should go

I wish I was joking

My hill is relatively new so it’s probably a lot different at established resorts but normally someone will draw up a rough draft and everyone that will be riding it will bicker about how they want it set up with the occasional “ if insurance catches us with that they will skin us alive “ coming from the managers.

Then 6-8 hours and lots more bickering about rails and lips later we have a mid setup

Hopefully more people who actually ride the park start applying for park crew soon rather than just people who know how to shovel

Gotta love the ol, jump over the entire feature and land in the flat

For us usually larger snow features like jumps stay in the same area year to year. Rails were usually pretty flexible, I’ll go in with some rough ideas for what I want and then let the rest of the crew fill in the blanks as a process where we work out what would flow best

Wo work a lot with angle measurements to find the jump and landing angles, also having the landing 3 times as long as the airtime is preffered but not always possible. There are more ways to do this but this is what i have used mostly. Also make rail jumps two rakes outside feature, just to be somewhat consistant. There are several shaper tools for different uses, for shapes i usually have two to three different ones, i have one wider rake which i use a lot for when snow is soft, a smaller rake that have sharper teeth for harder pack and a cutter which is only used when we cut sides of jumps, which is only done when needed. I mostly shape every day and at times i take half in the evening and half in the morning. I have worked both in a crew and alone, a crew is nice since the cold nights alone on hill can make you feel weird. Most places i have been able to come with ideas from the plan that my boss have set up, there have been bad vibes from debating where to put a feature. My pay is quite high actually, on par with a lot of construction work without full education. It’s probably the most fun job i can imagine. work hours are mostly outside opening hours, so it’s easy to get a lot of laps in every day. Hope this answered some questions

Agate420My hill is relatively new so it’s probably a lot different at established resorts but normally someone will draw up a rough draft and everyone that will be riding it will bicker about how they want it set up with the occasional “ if insurance catches us with that they will skin us alive “ coming from the managers.

Then 6-8 hours and lots more bickering about rails and lips later we have a mid setup

Hopefully more people who actually ride the park start applying for park crew soon rather than just people who know how to shovel

Sounds like the crew at the hill I grew up skiing at. No one on crew can even hit rails not even the manager lol

lil.BoyeWo work a lot with angle measurements to find the jump and landing angles, also having the landing 3 times as long as the airtime is preffered but not always possible. There are more ways to do this but this is what i have used mostly. Also make rail jumps two rakes outside feature, just to be somewhat consistant. There are several shaper tools for different uses, for shapes i usually have two to three different ones, i have one wider rake which i use a lot for when snow is soft, a smaller rake that have sharper teeth for harder pack and a cutter which is only used when we cut sides of jumps, which is only done when needed. I mostly shape every day and at times i take half in the evening and half in the morning. I have worked both in a crew and alone, a crew is nice since the cold nights alone on hill can make you feel weird. Most places i have been able to come with ideas from the plan that my boss have set up, there have been bad vibes from debating where to put a feature. My pay is quite high actually, on par with a lot of construction work without full education. It’s probably the most fun job i can imagine. work hours are mostly outside opening hours, so it’s easy to get a lot of laps in every day. Hope this answered some questions

That sounds like a good way to build jumps. Where do you work and what do they pay you? Seems like it’s kinda rare to make decent money at it.

Brighton and Woodward Park City crews be like:

switchlip2Sounds like the crew at the hill I grew up skiing at. No one on crew can even hit rails not even the manager lol

Every year there are more and more youngins getting into the park. They have been getting pretty good so my hopes are high for the future

skiP.E.I.That sounds like a good way to build jumps. Where do you work and what do they pay you? Seems like it’s kinda rare to make decent money at it.

It seems to work, i also feel i can trust jumps i have built more knowing what went into it.



I worked at Kvitfjell, Norway for 200kr/h (~18$/h) and starting at Geilo this season paid 210kr/h (~19$/h)
i was an apprentice as a landscaper and earned 217kr/h (roughly 20$/h)
i’ts a decent living for a twenty something year old in Norway.

worked at several other resorts but only part time with lift tickets as payment