How do you build a good solid ramp/booter?

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I was watching "Horgasm - A Love Story" and they were throwing salt? on the ramp and the guy said "It's gonna make it so hard." Does that actually help the ramp? Some people also told me to just keep building it and from time to time put water on it to harden it and shit and just keep packing it, but I want to be able to make ramps like these:
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How do they make the ramps so nice, clean and rock solid?
 
#1 thing not to do is just shovel a pile of snow that shit will not work. Get a couple of buds together and cut blocks of snow out with shovels. First outline your jump with the blocks and fill in from their.

If you look at videos of people with solid booters it doesn't look just like a shaped pile of snow there are individual blocks of snow making the entire jump.

There is a thread somewhere on NS that does a really good job of talking about jump construction and tranny shaping.
 
>make a pile of snow>start to shape it

>pack it down

>water

>more snow

and continue untill youre happy
 
If you're looking to make a jump anything like the above pictures in size you cannot just pile snow and just shape it, trust me that does not work.

First off, depending on how many people you have and the size of the feature building a jump can take a while. Personally, most of the time I spend a full day shaping and tweaking my jump and don't hit it till the next day.

Look at the first picture and see how the jump looks like blocks of stacked snow? This is what you need for a solid jump.
 
Sometimes I put water on a jump and it makes it stay, only if it's cold though. Build it like people say above.
 
Another thing to remember, when you're busting your ass trying to build this thing, is that lots of these guys have access to heavy equipment.
 
Umm not necessarily. In the back country they won't, as OP linked two back country pictures. Obviously in a park they will, as Torstein has the park crew at Northstar build the jumps.
 
If you're working in the spring salt is your best friend. You go from mashed potatoes to firm right away. The only thing with salt is make sure your take off is smooth before you salt it. You don't want random bumps and ruts frozen into it.

Also it depends on how big and location. Make sure the place you want to build it doesn't suck. Really think about that. Make damn sure you're going to have enough speed. Nothing is worse than spending all day or a couple days on a jump you can't actually hit.

Transition. Coming in heated and then hitting a wall will make you have a bad time. Base on the size of the jump, the speed, and the landing get a nice smooth transition that doesn't fling your legs over your head and kill you.

If it's worth building it's worth building right.
 
I've taken a plastic jump from an old skateboard ramp and covered it in snow and it worked fine
 
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