Pulling out your shovel at the resort

Pretty sure Borty has some stories of doing that

I dont see why not, big fan of tracking out paths in pow for lines and stomping out lips. Just wish resorts were a bit more cool about it.

we dont have a park so we do this all the time everywhere, patrol supports it too

At the bottom of the mountain there's this kiddie slope, not connected to the main resort, and it's always empty because it's unheard of so my friends and I build jumps there because the mountain closes at 4:30 and that place closes 5 - 5:30 depending on the liftie

Poindexter.Pretty sure Borty has some stories of doing that

Lol yeah. Riding a mountain for years with no park. Someday's patrol/owners wouldn't fuck with you, sometimes they would. I built some pretty sweet jumps, and plenty of garbage ones. Spring was always fun because you could build jumps pretty fast a lot of the time. I think I had 7 or 8 on one trail for a day. Actually kind of felt like a park doing laps. The first year I worked at Gore we still built some jumps in the trees because inverts were banned and they were being dicks about it. That changed over the next year just from everyone doing them regardless and patrol ceasing to give a fuck.

I def miss it. It was therapeutic shoveling snow and hiking features. Pretty much the same as my first 5 years in parks. Lots of hand world, people would stop by to chill, help, check on the progress. And then hike it with you when you opened features.

I dig when I get a chance to do some shoveling/raking. Not too often these days but a good time. The manual labor aspect stops some people but it's fun as hell. Getting an idea of what something is going to look like in your head, and then sitting there moving snow around, sculpting it, until it's damn near perfect. And how good it comes out is how much effort you're willing to put in. If you're decent at it, and down to spend some time, you can make things clean as fuck. Then the fun part of testing shit and watching other people have fun on the features as well.

Parks is a damn zen garden.

I feel like it was always frowned upon OP, but probably not much worse now. IT's been a while since I've built any jumps at the resort out of the park. Just make it decent and safe. Usually places where you aren't on/near a major trail or visible from a lift are good. Otherwise patrol might come shut it down pretty quick.

Actually ended up working park crew because of building random booters. I was a snowboard instructor at gore, at least hired to be. They had no park yet so I built a 3.5 ish foot booter on one of the only two open trails. Had a pretty good sesh for maybe an hour before ski patrol made me tear it down. I get it though, there were so many people hiking it you could barely ski the trail, it was kind of a hazard lol. But after getting bitched at and almost fired they offered me a job in parks. Never actually taught a lesson there and 16 seasons later still working in parks.

So technically building rando booters with the avy shovel not only gave us fun shit to ride as kids, but threw me into hopefully the only job I'll ever work.(completely by accident)

If they ask you to tear it down don't be a dick(even though it sucks) and have fun. We had a couple that were finished almost finished, that we never got to even hit. Or only hit once. It's sort of a gamble. If you're going to natural stuff in the trees it's way easier to pull it off. And people will be stoked to have some hidden features to ride.

Just send err. If you build anything cool throw up some pics.

Me and my friends do this on snow days and stuff but we dont use a shovel. We just use our skis and snowboards to scrape up snow and pack it down. If you stop hiking or leave it for a little while it will be gone or at least thats what happened to us

Stopping and making one decent jump can make the rest of the day way more enjoyable.

when i was working, me and my group built a nice 20 footer off a run called duffy a little while back
not there anymore sadly:(

Did it at alta, had locals supporting from the lifts, awesome time. But try one at STEAMBOAT and the patrollers will come up and make you take it down. We had one pull up and say if a non experienced skier didnt see it and went off by accident he would get hurt. It was between two trees (spaced out a little) and 100% visible.

SteezeOnAJawntDid it at alta, had locals supporting from the lifts, awesome time. But try one at STEAMBOAT and the patrollers will come up and make you take it down. We had one pull up and say if a non experienced skier didnt see it and went off by accident he would get hurt. It was between two trees (spaced out a little) and 100% visible.

I see your reasoning but inexperienced skiers at PC see a 35ft jump and think they'll be chill pizzaing into it.

Titus69I see your reasoning but inexperienced skiers at PC see a 35ft jump and think they'll be chill pizzaing into it.

Lmao, that facts. And they will sit at the top of the knoll with a bloody nose backing up others.

Get some snowboarder friends. We used to make little side jumps and stuff all the time with just boards lol