Tuesday, March 3, 2009

New Photos

I guess we have made some progress in the last week or so. We've had a few helping hands, but not too many. For the most part it's been me and Pete doing the work. Last weekend he was lucky enough to get some help from a couple of guys bucketing water and helping stack the back of a landing.

This is looking back at the first berm after the step-down/roll in. I resurfaced the berm today so it doesn't look like this anymore. It's $$.
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This is the hip after the step-down after the berm. It's about 6ft tall and 8ft long from inside corner to inside corner and 10-12ft long to the outside corner, which is where you want to land. It too was resurfaced today.
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looking back at the hip landing
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looking down the hip landing
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There is a roller at the bottom of the hip that goes into a slight berm that goes into this roller (which is now bigger) and leads up to the lip mentioned below.
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We started moving a lip back a little bit today. We were trying the jump out and realized that we didn't have near enough speed to clear it so we decided it would be easiest chop the lip down 6-8 inches and shave it out about a foot. Hopefully this will help with shortening the transition. By doing this we were also able to make the roller before the lip taller and much longer in order to fill up all of the flat space between the two after shaving the lip out.

The lip is on the left.
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The next set it a long/low set. We built it in about 35 minutes. I'd say it's lip is about 2 1/2ft tall and it's landing is about the same height but from the bottom of the pit it's about 4 1/2 ft tall and 10+ ft long. This landing leads to the lip that is stacked against a huge tree laying on the ground. As of today the lip is about 5 1/2ft tall.

looking over the landing at the long/low set
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side view of long/low. the landing looks nothing like this now, it's a little taller, wider and squared off.
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this pit is now deeper, the lip is taller and wider also.
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I found this old Budweiser that is unopened under some brush and tree branches so we can begin building the landing to the lip above.
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