Backcountry Jumps

InfernoHits

InfernoHits

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I'm from the EC so I don't get to hit them much, but from my point of view, WHAT A WASTE OF TIME. You have to spend all day digging this mound and cutting out ice slabs. Then you have to shape it, and by the end its like a 5 hour ordeal. Then you ice the take of and shit if necassary. Then you hit it. But when you hit it you have to hike a mile back uphill through powder to hit it again. Myabe I am wrong, but I'll stick to park jumps for the time being.
 
Sleds re the only aanswer, you can mash down your inrun.. get back to the top quick for maximinm hits, you get to better areas with naural lips and shit its just a new world with a sled.. i can wait to use them for the first time this winter.
 
dude i live in uconn and we built this road gap up on this hill, it was kinda small, even though it took a long time to hike, it was still worth it.
 
wait this wasn't you right?

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haha, people who dont own sleds always seem to think they're just a chairlift to the top, but 90% of the time sleds are just a way to get to the bottom of your hike
 
wel, i have no comment because i live in the east as well. but they do look fun and if you have a snowmobile, its perfect
 
ya i live in the east coast.. but i dont think that hitting backcountry jumps is gay... its way better than park jumps with hard ass landings

 
ya im from the east coast too, but i think bc jumps are sick u can learn so many new tricks with very little hurt which is alot better than trying new things and breaking ur neck on a hard park jump
 
powder is a forgiving landing. And you can build BC jumps in creative places that you could never find in a park. Very few resorts have 80+ foot jumps. Because of the locations and the ability to go bigger off BC jumps, they're a lot more fun to me.
 
Dude, have you ever hiked for more than 3 hours for one run? It's seriously, one of the most rewarding things EVER. You have no idea.
 
yeah, i live in the EC and you just gotta look for some nie poweder landings and you can build a jump, and it takes liike 40 min to set up and we made likea 40+ foot booter. its really not that hard.
 
yea, i definitely wouldn't be dissing BC jumps, i live on the east too and damn i wish we could make them out here, plus you have no idea what they're like, so its kind of stupid to be hating like that when you don't know what you're talking about
 
I AGREE IT'D BE BETTER TO JUMP INTO POWDER. MY ARGUMENT WAS THAT IT IS TOO MUCH WORK. AND I AM TOO LAZY TO PUT THAT AMOUNT OF TIME IN
 
I'm from the EC as well, but I'm hoping to build some jumps this year. It's a lot of work, but fun too, and gratifying, and you get a sweet jump of any design you wish, and its in the middle of nowhere instead of surrounded by little kids jumping off the sides of the takeoffs. Need I go on?
 
well its really not that hard if you have more than one person digging and you all have decent sized shovels. you can build a 60 foot booter in less than 2 hours if you do it right and have the men
 
what i dont get is why wouldn't you just spend all that time skiing the powder. I mean jumps are great and all, but you can do that any day in the park. You should take advantage of the powder when you have it and drop some cliffs and live it up in the powder.
 
yeah, BC doesn't even hurt. WRONG. the damage to your body when you tip over in the BC is infinitely worse than when you just wash out in the park. your limbs get ripped in different directions, and ligaments get torn in a second. until you have hit huge booters into powder you cannot understand this
 
I enjoy th great smooth take off and landing that parks offer, but nothing beats a sweet powder landing in the back country. The hike is worth it!
 
I kind of agree with the maker of the thread, but not really at all. I've gotten lazier lately, so now when I build a jump I just make it off a cliff so I can get a lot more air with a lot less work. Five minutes of stomping a lip and 20 foot inrun and I get 40 feet of air...not a bad deal! But I guess it's hard to realize how rewarding it is to hit something that you made yourself if you've never done it.
 
i agree and disagree it really depends how you fall they can both be way painful but park isnt as forgiving as powder. but yeah it hurts like a mutha fucker when you hit and your body gets yanked around
 
Eh.

Missing your feet on an East Coast park jump = somethings broken.

Missing your feet in 2 feet of powder = ragdoll.

Unless you're talking about some seriously huge air (60, 70, 80...) then i just cant agree.
 
walking is hard work but worth it, sleds are a shit middle ground... if you're gonna use transport, use a CHOPPER. thats what i do. bill ggates paid for it. i think.
 
Not necessarily. In the best case scenario you will just ragdoll, but occasionally you will stick an arm into the snow or something and it just gets held there. Then you have problems. You may be able to break bones in the park, but you are infinitely more likely to blow out knees and shoulders in soft snow.
 
My friends and I can build a 75 foot booter in like an hour mebbe a bit longer, then the person that guinea pigs it boots it back up and VOILA you have a staircase. Then you are getting much bigger air then almost any parks allow so you can be crazy and progress much faster. And I like being in the outdoors in the mountains not around a buncha little wiggers.
 
If I lived in CO, UT, CA, or anywhere near Whister(espically CO), I would buy a sled, and sled and BC 75% of the time.
 
any person who makes a thread like this should just quit skiing. fucking hiking in the BC is 10 times better than the shit that you do back east.
 
naw there is just usually like 4 of use and we just dig hard and they go up quick. Sometimes it takes longer, it just depends on location really.
 
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