Check out the sick drop in for my backyard set up!

Mr.Huck

Mr.Huck

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JK- Even when you know that there is going to be a scaffold jump in downtown Denver, you still have to be blown away when you see the thing under construction. I start build the jump in a few days. Stoked! Denver Big Air. That's URBAN!
 
you're working the construction crew? take a cam and document it for us, i wanna see this shit from multiple angles
 
That is a great idea. For you guys, I will do it. I will have my Sony HD on a tripod and I will strap on my POV too. I will vid as much as possible.
 
sweet vid, thanks for makin it, is there gonna be some sort of lift for the athletes or are they supposed to hike all the way up in skiboots and with sikis in their hands ?
 
that is quite large, no wonder tickets are so expensive

is this going to be on TV?
 
I couldn't get up on the ramp today, because the scaffold guys were hustling trying to get it finished. Our work starts this Thursday. I'll let you know on the lift thing. It looks like we will just be lugging our butts up those stairs.
 
Not trying to shamelessly bump my own thread for the hell of it. When I was videoing this and was watching the guys on the drop in using ropes because it was too steep to stand on; and then it dawns on me that guys are going to dropping switch on that. Holy BallZ!
 
So they blew in snow on Wednesday night. Yesterday Shane and I got started on the landing hill. Our volunteer ski packers don't start until today. We wanted to make sure that they knew what a quality landing hill looked liked. Shane broke it up with a shovel and I sidestepped and slipped the whole thing. Took us over 4 hours, and I was pretty close to blowing chunks at the end, but the landing hill is truly sweet. It was getting dark when I took these. I'll load some POV footage from earlier.

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is there an athlete list yet?

my guess is that this will be the only year this happens. I'm predicting a pretty big fail
 
I'm hoping you are wrong. It would suck if this was the only year guys got to see this view right before they hucked themselves.

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just decided im buying tickets this thing is going to be so dope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its like 15 minuets away from my house
 
Aight, so I can easily say this is this most insane thing I have ever done. To get snow on the drop in and and the platform where the jump is, they have to crane it up to us. The crane guy lifts up a container which is about the size of a small roll off container. He then has to maneuver this thing through the light towers, and bring it in to where we need it dumped.

If something snapped and it fell, it would take out the scaffold with all of us standing on it. The wind was blowing when we were dumping it on the drop in, so basically you have the swinging pinata from hell trying to crush you. The snow is stock piled man made snow that they blew into a pile a few days ago. When we dump it there are always some huge frozen snow balls in the mix. When we dump snow on the 44 degree slope you have to watch out to make sure you don't get flattened by a 200 pound powdered Dunkin Donut Munchkin.

Once we get the load safely on the deck, we have to spread it out quickly because the scaffold was engineered for a maximum thickness of 8 inches. If there is too much weight in one spot, the scaffold could collapse in that spot and we would all fall 120 feet or more into the park.

Forgot to mention that when the bucket touches on the drop in, the whole structure shakes. We dump the snow out on the uphill side of the container by opening a metal gate, which is one side of the container. The gate is super heavy and it would definitely crush your leg or head if it fell open when you weren't ready. The worst is that the snow dumping out of the bucket pushes it backward in the air and makes it swing. It would be really easy to get knocked off of the drop in, or hung by the guide ropes.

Pics or it didn't happen:

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Yep. At least locally. Keep looking out for it. May be on Altitude. Tuesday and Wednesday. I will be around the jump with my POV on during the comps and I will post footy too.
 
Craziness. I'm flying out Denver tonight for SIA and I plan on watching the show, stoked to see what goes down. Hopefully I can get there though, it's nuking in SLC right now.
 
wow. huge props for being involved in that project... glad to see it's being done on a grand scale
 
The effort that went into this thing is pretty much indescribable. The volunteers worked their asses off. The guys from copper were amazing. It was pretty much a perfect storm of expertise and highly motivated volunteer effort that made this what it is. I spoke to some of the FIS guys and they are all saying that this is, by far, the best scaffold set up they have ever seen. The guys were really stoked on it too. Perfect amount of pop.
 
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