How do they make the moguls for comps?

RubberSoul

RubberSoul

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Pardon my ignorance on the matter, but i have a vague idea of how moguls are formed but what is the standard process for making them for something like the olympics? how do they make them and how do they standardize them?
 
Not sure if you are serious but I'll bite. They mark out on the snow where each "line" will be and then just have a bunch of skiers go down pushing the snow out, and eventually up, into the moguls. Snow that gets scraped out at each "table" gets used to build the jumps.
 
no jabba, obviously there are not molds

generally they place little flags where the tops of all the moguls should be, and a bunch of skiers ski down the course turning at the flags.

moguls can also be built by a snow cat by making a set of rollers that are spaced out the length of one snow cat. the cat then travels up the hill pushing rollers half way up, making a checkerboard of rollers that are 1/2 cat length apart, 1 cat width wide. then a SHIT PILE of man made snow is blown on this rubble field created by the groomer, and it ends up looking like an egg crate mattress. the mattress is then skied in til it looks like proper moguls
 
to the serious answers: thanks! obv i knew what the general idea was but wanted to know how exactly they executed it. thanks

also lol @ one of the two serious answers being downvoted, some people are such douchebags
 
I've seen it done where the cat drops the plow in a line down the hill, then staggers the drop on the next line, then evens it with the first, on the third. Then a little shovel work is needed.
 
good jokes guys..

the REAL way to make moguls is to get a herd of buffalo that are ready for hibernation to fall asleep, evenly spaced in a line down the hill. they can only open the moguls once there is enough snow on top of the buffalo.
 
Here is the underside of a huge mogul mold. Crane a few of these onto the slope, press em in, and you have a perfect mogul field.

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I got involved on building them.

You make them with a CAT groomer. With the shovel, the CAT driver makes little bumps about 6-9m apart in a line. The line is made by a spotter outside. He marks were the bump should be and conducts the operation. Beside the first line, another column of bumps is layed out between the 2 paralleled bumps from the left line. After all this (assuming the jump tables were layed down a few days before), the volunteers chop up the snow and ski the course to soften up the corners and smooth out the rut.

From there athletes do the rest over the period of 7 days.

If time is missing, a team of 10 good skiers will make push turns to build up the bumps. They will ski the same line in the same tracks several time until the rut is formed. 3m beside, another rut can be layed down using the course beside you.
 
I've skied in courses before and in summer they make our course with a cat once or twice a week. Cat bumps can be a tad scary first thing in the morning when they're rock hard and untouched.
 
This is the best thread I have read in a long time. For the past fifteen years I have wondered have perfect moguls are made, and I now finally have the answer. Thank you all
 
EVERYONE HAS IT TOTALLY WRONG. Moguls are made when Buffalo hibernate. They lay down in the cleared runs and are covered by the snow. The moguls are the humps an their backs.

This is what i tell tourists in Breck when they ask where we put the moguls during the summer.
 
At my hill they push up a bunch of shitty little chunky ice mounds with the groomer blade. They they let thousands of Hoosiers and Fips mash and pizza through the mounds until all the chunky shit is gone and rounded bumps begin to appear. Then a group of us old fucks start to ski out lines in the desired areas of the run until we have a satisfactory run line.
 
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