yuuuup, its true, some of my trails got built by those types of fools. and whatya know i live in cali haha
all talk and no dig . . . .
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In my situation I have so many friends that want to help build but dont even ride. So Ill take them up and it end up with me just standing and yelling. So when Im digging Id rather be by myself. When it comes to building the ladders and drops we finish whole stunts in just hours.
Damn, I remember you posting picture right when you guys got that jump done. Mom nature can be pretty nasty.I'm still in depression over our trails getting jacked by the weather. Pretty much all of our work from last fall got washed away in a massive flood. This jump no longer exists. RIP...
i have given up having people help.
sometimes they will but all i can use
them for is just to pile up dirt. no way
do i trust them to cut lips/landers.
i have a 18'' steel pipe i took from under
my dumpster I am going to weld caps
on both ends with a locking door to stash
my shovels. i have lost 20+ shovels in 8 years
of my jumps. that in its self if a record for me.
city seems to be ignoring them, yeah!
i have a small tt line i do no work on anymore
to show the groms what kind of crap lips they make.
let them LEARN on there own. on there own line.
i wouldn't want to work on a line i couldn't ride.
anyone who can ride the big line knows what i have done
and helps out.
sometimes they will but all i can use
them for is just to pile up dirt. no way
do i trust them to cut lips/landers.
i have a 18'' steel pipe i took from under
my dumpster I am going to weld caps
on both ends with a locking door to stash
my shovels. i have lost 20+ shovels in 8 years
of my jumps. that in its self if a record for me.
city seems to be ignoring them, yeah!
i have a small tt line i do no work on anymore
to show the groms what kind of crap lips they make.
let them LEARN on there own. on there own line.
i wouldn't want to work on a line i couldn't ride.
anyone who can ride the big line knows what i have done
and helps out.
I would also say all around the world!
We have no problem losing tools because the people that see them wouldn't know what to do with them anyway. 
trails got buried for a couple days. snow is gone now but everything is saturated. more building than riding for a bit.
That's an awesome pic. This pic is from a year back of Thomas running his lines in the dead of winter.
One of the guys I ride with is unemployed (he's a preacher) and builds a new stunt EVERY WEEK. I try to put in an hour of maintenance each week, but there's no way I can keep up with that. I have been trying to keep him in tools to help out.
There's more to trails than just digging too... Tools, refreshments, keeping the place clean and neat, picking up any trash, etc.
he ain't unemployed. he's employed by the Lord. and the Lord apparently wants us to ride trails.
Edit: nevermind, i only saw the 1st pic
you know those are top secret, fool....
No i totally agree that most of the best trails in the world were built by people that smoke. What i was saying, in my particular situation in a town of 15,000, the people that smoke and 'ride' are complete lazy asses for 2 hours after they smoke. However, some of the skaters in my town that smoke become more motivated to skate or be active after they smoke so i am not biased towards people that choose to smoke.
But again, i have given up on everybody except one other person who is now out for the rest of the season.
lthumbsdown:
Damn that looks cool.trails got buried for a couple days. snow is gone now but everything is saturated. more building than riding for a bit.
where in oregon is that sitting duck?
Ingenious...
One thing that will bite you in the ass, is alienating the wrong people. If your shyt is in public, it's best to try and get along with everyone, even the real bastards.
This is what happened after some punk kids got run off a while back.
This was shaping up to be the best spot in Oregon, and it got totally trashed. We are rebuilding though....
Here's a map....
my trails are actually visible on google maps. you can see the jumps. ill try to get a pic as soon as possible
I don't know why you guys are publishing your stunts here. I wouldn't tell the Pope where my jumps are.
haha, stalefish would be my move
Have you seen the movie BikeCar? If not and you snowboard at least a little bit you have to watch it. 4 snowboard pros build a bikecar and pedal around the PNW and go to 6 resorts in the spring time. Scotty Whitlake is one of them - he's the nut that Crandall always talks about - doing stuff like pedaling across the US on a fixed gear.
Anyway, one of the sections they build a ryhthm section of snow jumps, pretty much trail style for snowboards. It's funny. The first time I watched it and looking at how they are building the jumps - I'm thinking "these guys are going to be killing themselves" The jumps were snowboard style with taller lips than landings. They were hitting it and landing on the next lip!
But you can see the progress and the lips get shorter and steeper and when they finally are getting thru they look just like proper trails but in snow.
Haha, nice. No, I've never seen it and need to check it out. I've always thought rhythm sets would be sick for snowboarding or skis. Most of the jumps are so flat and long that you hit with tons of speed... they need to start going up.haha, stalefish would be my move
Have you seen the movie BikeCar? If not and you snowboard at least a little bit you have to watch it. 4 snowboard pros build a bikecar and pedal around the PNW and go to 6 resorts in the spring time. Scotty Whitlake is one of them - he's the nut that Crandall always talks about - doing stuff like pedaling across the US on a fixed gear.
Anyway, one of the sections they build a ryhthm section of snow jumps, pretty much trail style for snowboards. It's funny. The first time I watched it and looking at how they are building the jumps - I'm thinking "these guys are going to be killing themselves" The jumps were snowboard style with taller lips than landings. They were hitting it and landing on the next lip!
But you can see the progress and the lips get shorter and steeper and when they finally are getting thru they look just like proper trails but in snow.