Kicker locations???

ride-rider

ride-rider

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Sup guys,

A few buddies and I want to build a kicker somewhere in the pow. We are planning on snowshoeing in, taking a couple hours to build a fatty jump and seshing it for a day. Problem is, we have no clue where to go??? Any thoughts? Rainier??? We will have 3 shovels, a snow saw, and snow shoes to get where we want to go.

Oh and we are gonna wait until there is like a 2-3 foot dump and clear weather before we go for it.
 
Stevens, But I am looking to build in more open country you know. Untouched rolling powder fields for like a 50 footer. Thats why I was thinking rainier. Drive up to paradise and hike up from there.
 
paradise would be good but idk about national park regulations and stuff. try chinook pass, outside of the park. you can make a road gap or Naches Peak is really good near sheep lake
 
Yeah we're building a kicker up in Chinook pass this spring once the pass re-opens. Should be sick. But where do you go to build one in Chinook Pass when it's closed?
 
i havnt been up there when it is closed but i know people who have, they took a sled trip and camped out in the backcountry. i heard the pow is unreal. really deep no risk if you wipe. i wanna go up sometime in winter.
 


Yeah yeah that'd be sick. I was actually just talking to my friend about sledding out somewhere & camping out cuz he just got 2 new ones. This could be the trip... but I gotta get some sub-zero mummy bags & shit.
 
do you guys have Backcountry gear (trancievers, shovels, probes)? and knowledge of the snowpack stability and how to use your gear?

You say you want to go out after a big dump when its sunny and you are most likely building a jump with a landing that will be steep enough to slide.

frankly going out into the bc without any gear or knowledge after a big dump is putting your own lives in danger, if someone were to get buried there would be next to nothing you could do about it and they would most likely die.

if you want to get into skiing in the backcountry you should need to at least have all of your gear and some sort of training preferably a level 1 avalanche class.

here are some helpful links if you want to get into backcountry skiing.

http://www.nwac.us/

http://proguiding.com/
 
Yo, I have a decent knowledge base as far as backcountry snow travel. In fact I made my senior project on the issue, ill post my website at the bottom of this.

Anyway, I have access to the proper gear. My friends don't, which practically makes my gear useless.

I suppose what I was saying was a little over ambitious, we would build in a less avy place, like on a slope with sparse trees. I shouldn't have said out it the middle of a snow field on rolling hills, I think that was more of a day dream haha.

Yo heres my website. Its still not totally finished, theres typos and shit all over the place.
http://backcountryandsnowsafety.weebly.com/
 
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