Modifying spots (Urban or B.C.)

Way*Mo

Way*Mo

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I would like to ask you all to share your stories of modifying spots to make them skiable. This could be urban, removing skate stoppers, cutting fences, etc. Or backcountry, trimming trees, building wood snow catchers, maybe even moving earth.

What is the most effort you've put in to make your own spot? Was is legal or renegade? Did you get caught?

Cheers my homies!
 
Well we don't have a park in our ski resort so we always have to build the kickers on our own. There is a nice little hillock next to a ski lift but there is a wooden fence in the landing so we decided to just kick the fence so long with our skiboots until it got out. (The ground was frozen so we could not just get the fence out of the earth) In the end we had a nice kicker session until someone working at the lift station noticed what we did with the fence and we had to leave.
 
I know in one of LJ’s real ski videos they had to dig out the side of a hill that was right next to the rail so his tips wouldn’t catch on it when he slid the rail
 
One time I rode up a resort picnic table and ended up breaking the thing. The table surface broke off and was leaning on the bench and made a ramp. I tried to front flip it but the rest of the table imploded as soon as I made contact with it and I landed on my face. The carcass of the table is still in the exact same spot 2 years later and looks like it hasn't been touched since I "modified" it.
 
14201723:armchair_skier said:
One time I rode up a resort picnic table and ended up breaking the thing. The table surface broke off and was leaning on the bench and made a ramp. I tried to front flip it but the rest of the table imploded as soon as I made contact with it and I landed on my face. The carcass of the table is still in the exact same spot 2 years later and looks like it hasn't been touched since I "modified" it.
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Haha. Where do you ski? This place sounds awesome
 
Went to a cutblock in the summer we knew would be a primo location for a jump line.

spent most of the fall piling up stumps and logs into rough jump shapes and spent a lot of time removing trees/rocks that would be hazards in the landing. Now we have a spot that has 6 jumps ranging from about 20 - 60 ft.
 
14201972:Way*Mo said:
Haha. Where do you ski? This place sounds awesome
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I think this happened at Laurel Mt PA. It's a very small hill in the middle of nowhere PA with no park; claims to have "THE STEEPEST RUN IN PA".
 
when I was younger my buddies and I would all access the local ski hill through the state park armed with clippers, shovels, hand saws, and a grub axe. We would all go out with the intention of making things hittable that we had spotted the winter previous. we were a lot more effective cutting branches and opening up landings than actually moving dirt. a few times we filled in some low spots or filled dirt in against a rock.
 
14202109:armchair_skier said:
I think this happened at Laurel Mt PA. It's a very small hill in the middle of nowhere PA with no park; claims to have "THE STEEPEST RUN IN PA".
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You watch your mouth wildcat is gnar.
 
There is this epic C rail to down flat with natural speed on my college campus but it's got this random single bike rack in the landing. I'm so tempted to pull up with a grinder in the middle of the night and cut that shit off
 
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