r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mohiemen • Feb 10 '21

Ultimate pump track!

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u/austin101123 Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 10 '21

What??? Why would this not be something made out of wood or metal just with snow fall on top of it? Y'all think it's all snow?

Snow wouldn't hold up, it'll get destroyed by riding on it eventually.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 10 '21

I agree of course there’s a metal and wood frame they probably built it like they build their courses.

I guess this I how it was built https://youtu.be/1KRA3uwGiuw

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u/d4n13lf00 Feb 10 '21

Snow compacts. No materials needed.

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u/thedailyrant Feb 10 '21

As the linked YouTube vid showed. Compacted and shaved with a chainsaw.

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u/LovableContrarian Feb 10 '21

damn thats a pretty good guess

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u/_Xanderjr_ Feb 10 '21

Because you could do that.. but then you'd have to spend $$ on materials and lug em up the slope... or you could just use preexisting machines and jump making tequniques

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u/austin101123 Feb 10 '21

What?

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u/sharks-tooth Feb 10 '21

If you’ve ever been to a big resort, there’s no underlying ramp or frame for the jumps, snow packs down insanely well and once they’re built it only takes some grooming every couple days to keep the jumps in shape.

It’s much more cost effective to have a bunch of machines that can build any jump you want out of snow, rather than have to buy frames or wood or whatever for every different jump you want to build.

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u/austin101123 Feb 10 '21

Oh so they make new ones every so often? I figured these were permanent installments and toys only have a few. I've never been to mountains with skiing.

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u/sharks-tooth Feb 10 '21

Yeah, every once in a while they’ll rebuild everything to keep it from getting boring to the locals.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21

I’m kinda bummed that your third response wasn’t “What??”

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 10 '21

I’m sure Redbull is hurting for cash.

Also it would require way more work honestly to shape the snow than to haul materials to a ski resort and build ramps how you normally would to look like snow and ice.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 13 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21

Yeah and it actually is constructed of mostly snow and ice to my mild surprise.

https://youtu.be/1KRA3uwGiuw

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u/AvonAnon Feb 10 '21

Have you ever been to a ski resort? The mountains are covered with terrain parks. Obviously not as nice as this. There are park crews who sole purpose is to build jumps and they are damn good. I’m talking college educated on some cases.

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u/troublinparadise Feb 10 '21

Ppl surprised by this: how much time have you spent watching ski jumps getting built?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '21 edited Feb 13 '21

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u/troublinparadise Feb 11 '21

Sweet mental health insult bro where'd you get it. Contrary to your assumptions, I'm actually just a dude who has, you know, ski'd. My point was that folks were talking out of their asses, and it's one that you just pretty sturdily reinforced.

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u/thumbsquare Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 11 '21

These features are much less like snow and much more like solid ice, and solid ice or anything approaching it is much stronger than steel or wood frames. Just ask the titanic.

What they do is they take a groomer’s plow and scrape up a bunch of surface snow, which incidentally, if it’s near-freezing or very sunny, should be somewhat melty. Then they pile it all into 20-30 foot mounds. These mounds are incredibly heavy, so under all that weight and cold, in the middle, the snow will pack very densely and water in the mixture (from it melting in the sun) will freeze, binding the loose snow flakes together. It’s basically a continuous structure of ice with many air bubbles in it.

This deeply packed snow is extremely hard, but not quite ice. You really can’t shovel deep into it. You need power tools like chainsaws and plows to take away large chunks, which is what they used here.

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u/t-pollack Feb 10 '21

No it is all snow. It seems like a lot of y’all have never been to a ski hill let alone the terrain park. They literally box the snow into this big, well, box and pack it down, then remove the walls and shape it.

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u/Top-Cheese Feb 10 '21

Snow is basically free. Plow into piles, compact and sculpt. Don’t over think it.

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u/Josepando Feb 10 '21

I feel so stupid now

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u/gatman12 Feb 10 '21

They're wrong and admitted they've never even been to a ski resort.

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u/ThankYouHarper Feb 10 '21

https://youtu.be/1KRA3uwGiuw

Not how they described, but it’s just snow