Put salt on your jumps?

pbcrazy9898

pbcrazy9898

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i was watching a video one time and i saw them throwing salt onto the jump..... Did i see something worng or do people actually do that for some reason.
 
Works when it is hot out to keep the snow from turning into mashed potatoes....we do it all summer on the glacier in whislter.
 
yeah it melts the snow which then typically refreezes to keep the shape better

don't salt a landing though.
 
ya what everyone else has said is true fertilizer does the same thing that what i use in my backyard bcuz i have it laying around and it doesn't kill the grass it helps it.
 
Its like you see the racers salting/ fertillising their courses with races. To ice up their courses.

I heard that if you salt your jump on a really cold day it can make the jump worse. is that true?
 
at mt hood the race camps salt the courses all the time, it keeps the snow nice and hard by melting off the slushy shityou ski half the time and the other half you salt and slip...
 
it works in the summer because salt water has a higher freezing point then normal water. if u do it in the winter it will just melt
 
Yeah where i live the landings are ice...Thats the main reason why i don't try stuff because it will hurt so bad if i mess up...coulod you soften up the landings if you put salt on them?

 
That's what I'm asking... I have gotten pretty beat up on these ice landings and I just wonder if in the extreme cold and home-made snow hills like I have, if we salt the landings, will it soften them up?
 
the only solution to an icey landing is a cat driver who knows what he's doing and is willing to chip up, reshape, and groom the landings as needed... salt won't solve the ice problem
 
what if you wanted to make a kicker or something but the snow is still really fluffy and unpackable...Is there a remedie to make your snow pack better?
 
wrong. salt water has a lower freezing point than water. if the freezing point was higher than that of water, it wouldn't make sense to salt roads, because nothing would melt.

 
I heard that those hoodlum snowboarders hate it too.

maybe if tanner salted chads gap then the yeti wouldn't have packed his boots with dynamite and MFM wouldn't have taken over that turf.

stupid tanner.

 
great grandmothers spachula! i learned more than i need to know about salt except to use it on a warm day if you want to make the jump hard pact...and on fries, there delicious.
 
If its above freezing salt works best, if it's below freezing water works better. Like bring a couple water bottles and sprinkle the water all over the jump after you build it and it should help quite a bit.
 
except when its 75 degrees on hood and the snow is dick soup and landing backseat switch causes a backwards twisting fall
 
^^ correct.

Im not 100% sure about this but i believe that the salt melts a small ammount of snow quickly due to its chemical nature then the snow underneath re-freezes this super think layer of water ontop of the snow making it firm up.

Im really not sure though...
 
this is a helpful thread, i'm giving +karma to everyone who posted some good advice in here, and of course the thread creator for starting this discussion. i've been having trouble with my jump building and this is going to help a lot.
 
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