Tips for beginner in Backcountry

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skimanskimanskim

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What is the comparrison to park booters and Backcountry booters, what should I know? Besides that the landings are powder and hard to land switch in?
 
Well you usually have amuch shittier inrun, your jump isn't as big or smooth, and your landing might be chop, I think it's way harder to throw even easy tricks on BC booters. Spend your time building a sweet jump, I know it's hard to prep it for hours and hours because you just wanna huck, but it's well worth it.
 
your gonna learn real quick that chairlifts are a good thing and hiking and sweating for anything but a GREAT jump is not always worth it.

Landings get bombed out quickley, just a few falls and the entire loanding zone of a good BC jump can be destroyed...

With that in mind try to find locations that are easy to get to, easy to build (require minimal snow sculpting), are easy to hike back up to after jumping (a cliff band makes a great BC jump, but is next to impossible to hike back up) and is allows you to hit it from different angles so you can always find an untouched landing area....

Best advice, if it is a blue bird pow day, don't bother building a jump, just enjoy the skiing
 
build the walls of the jump with blocks or chunks of snow and then fill in the middle, if you just shovel a pile you will end up doing more work. Make sure you pack it super hard or else you will sink into what looks like a finished jump when you try and pop.
 
my thoughts exactly. hitting BC booters with ease definitely takes a lot of experience and skill. it's not as easy it seems.
 
find a place with a nice incline landing and build a wide booter, considering you have a wide landing. so when you bomb it, you can angle off
 
Try not to make a 15 foot wide jump with perfect landing, then its just like a park kicker with a powder landing. Just spend about an hour to make a little booter that will send you far and high.
 
my friend and i have a booter in the woods near our school. its about 60ft of air but theres no mile hike in ski boots. maybe we're not Xtreme or anything but its big and when we need to fix the landing we just need to hit the trees above it so snow falls. it has a really sketchy run in and no snowboarders from our school can hit it so its the perfect balence of remote, lot of air, and minimal upkeep. its really hard to film though cause there are trees all over. we have a 8-10 foot wide section marked with sticks to marke the angles you can hit it (no switch takeoffs but were not that good yet)
 
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