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im not going to preclaim doing it for sure, but if the conditions were right, and we had enough people to build a big enough jump and slide a run in before it all gets destroyed by rain or snow or something, then yeah that would be way sick.
the hardest part would be getting a crew together like KC said. it hard to get enough people stoked on gnarly gap without a lot of hang time, with high risks if you come up short, also with kind of a flat landing (which i dont think would really matter when you have that much speed).
we have an area up here in juneau alaska that my friends named grizzly gulch haha, because it does have a place you could build a jump very similar to chads, kind of like this jump tho, because it would have about 20-30 feet of step down, but it wouldnt be quite as big. the landing would also be very similar to this one now that i think about it, on the flat side of ideal. last spring me and one of my friends wanted to build a gap on it, but couldnt get any other people that wanted to, so we filled in some snow on the transition and seshed it like a really lippy really tall booter. its also right below a avy chute, so conditions have to be prime in a lot of ways.
hopefully this year we can get it together, i think it would be about 90-110 foot range, but equally bad if you came up short.
the biggest distance wise jump i know i could claim would be a couple summers ago when i was at momentum, the big step up/over that turpin went for the triple on, and i know there are lots of skiers that could throw down on that way harder me. but i was boosting that step up a good 15+feet past the nuckle a few times. i was with iannick b and he measured it out to about 110 feet. that was the first day that that jump was built, session 2, before the pushed the landing closer to the lip.
but i also had the advantage of following dorey the first time for speed, i know that any bc gap would be way gnarlier, expecially for first hit.
I would probably do it. pm Me if you are seriously interested.
