Packing powder

[BoomSkier]

anyone got tips on how to pack powder snow into a nice hard jump. i'm not talking like a huge kicker just a medium sized one for my backyard.

 

[wazzucrewskier]

i dont know if this would work, but for like courses and stuff they use salt to harden it up, you could try packing it a little, salting it, then packing more, and salting again. it could work, but i have no experience doing this sort of thing.

 

[-_-Johnny-_-]

salting is good^. it'll make the snow hard

 

[duhamelski]

well in tahoe the snow is nice and wet so we just throw a bunch of snow on a pile and suddenly a massive bc kicker appears. its magic

 

[Edward.]

tahoe is where its at even though ive never been there, jea!

 

[LJF]

you can build a jump with powder it just takes a lot mor work. the snow needs to be packed a lot so it takes longer and it is a good idea to let it sit for a couple hours after you build it. but if you are not building a huge jump you should have no problem.

 

[Edward.]

thats the key

 

[brennanmidwest]

well what kinda salt do they put on cuz i never know

 

[Desjardins]

just compact it with a shovel of something, just smack it

 

[cobra_commander]

build it in blocks of snow.

 

[AptosFreeskier]

What you do is shovel off the powder till you get to the harder snow then you take the shovel and cut out a block of snow until the jump is big enough.