How to make a good jump in shitty snow??

I just posted this in another thread but whatever. If you build a kicker out of wood, skateboard style, then cover it, it will always hold its shape, so it doesnt really matter how "shitty" your powder is. Also, you know that blue shit you can buy at the gas station? it melts ice/snow. it looks like salt too but if you springle a small amount on it and then leave it for a bit, the top layer of the snow will melt, making the shit on the bottom stay under the wet-er snow.
 
If you have dry snow that won't adhere and it's freezing outside, just pour some water over the snow, then shape it...
what i did: i put a wooden pallet up against the wall, covered it with astroturf and snow, then put snow on the transition, just a pile, then sprinkled water over it, shaped it and voila, it immediately froze and an hour later it was super hard, so i had the perfect wallride.... same could work for regular jumps, just make sure your sidewalls are wide enough and are slanted, if they're straight down they'll crumble under the weight of a skier....
later when the jump is frozen solid you can digg off the sides straight to make it more esthetical....
 
The other night we used an indian can, which is basically a metal backpack that is a manual fire hose. Spraying that and throwing snow on a jump made a really stable jump out of shitty snow.
 
More important than Agua is boot stomping the crap out of it every so often while your piling the snow up. Do the "happy jump dance" on it. I just jog in place on it in my boots. It creates a similar effect to an avalanche. Friction heats the snow and it gets solid. Repost for me, but if you just use water sometimes you end up with a jump that feels set up but when you hit it it caves in because the middle is still powder.
 
I had really fresh snow and we just used so much of it and packed it so hard that it held its shape.
 
pour some water on it and basicaslly stomp the shit out if it. i just got the same type of snow and it was a pain in the ass, but we built a nice booter eventually. good luck
 
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