Backyard fun

[SnowRider]

Does anyone ever take there skis/snowboards into there front/back yard and ski or ride it? I set up all sorts of jumps and jibs in my front yard. Me and brother are making a home made staircase grind. Its so cool and simple to make ( staircase was already built ). Just wondering if I was the only one or not.

SnowRider

[Greg]

When I was a teen, a buddy of mine broke his leg skiing in our back yard. He wacked into the well cap and busted his shin.

[TwinTips21]

Behind the condo complex in Vermont a few of my buddies and I always build a few hits, rail type things, and even a bobsled type of course where we build these real high walls going through the woods, probably the most fun thing ever.

[snowmaker4191]

I have a little park setup down here in MA, and a few trails up at my place in sunapee. also my own snowmaker so i can be sure i'll have enough snow for the season.

[smootharc]

.....circa 1965, would be backyard night skiing, lights on, and big fat flakes floating from the darkness. Mom shuttling out with hot cocoa with mini-marshmellows....

Damn....when I think about it....it's been all downhill since then....

[OldsnowboarderME]

My Backyard slopes off into the woods so I built a little hit last winter..

[sledhaulingmedic]

My back yard's as flat as Nebraska.

My first run and jump (and crash) were in my parents yard.

My second go at skiing was in my friend's hay field (which actually was a nice little beginner run.) I was sad to see they've planted houses there since.

[skibum9995]

I thinned a small section of woods behind my house to ski. It's not much but it's better than nothing when I can't get to a ski area.

[skibum]

Used to when I was young. not my house but friend's,...and strangers.
We had runs going through neighbor's yards in our little suburb.
This was in Nashua NH, the Lancashire Heights neighborhood. Shadwell, Tennyson, Shelley, Browning, and Bicentennial Roads all have a good pitch. We would start up on Peele Road and come down close to Old Maid's Brook.
If not there, we were at Roby Park, Greenmeadow Golf Course or Nashua Country Club.

[deadheadskier]

Originally Posted by TwinTips21

Behind the condo complex in Vermont a few of my buddies and I always build a few hits, rail type things, and even a bobsled type of course where we build these real high walls going through the woods, probably the most fun thing ever.

that pretty much defines my winters age 15 to 18

Me and my buddies built all sorts of jumps in the yard that we'd hit up after the day was done. There was also a pretty sweet powerline in my neighborhood in Ludlow, Vt that had a pretty sweet 20 foot cliff drop that we'd fequently hit up.

Once it got dark though, we were all about the sledding. There was a pretty significant mountain behind my parents house and we designed all sorts of crazy sled routes - downhill type courses, slalom, GS.

Right next to the house though was the creme de la creme. Every year we built the most ridiculous luge course that became more and more challenging as the winter moved on. We'd make the walls higher and higher and ice it down so that it was downright scary and nearly impossible to finish without rocketing off one of the walls and crashing into the woods.

During my senior year in March I had finally built the fastest luge, one that NO ONE could make it down. Everyone kept trying, but it was so slick you couldn't control your speed and navigating the course was impossible, but it was so fun. Two days prior to a family ski trip to Breckenridge, I gave it one last shot as my run before I nearly made it. I got half way down the track and flew off one of the corners having my fully extended left leg hit a tree with all my weight going downhill.

I tore my MCL and spent the entire time in Colorado on crutches


I love the at home terrian parks. If I had a home in the mountains with some land, til this day, I'd most certainly build some jumps for skiing and build mad sled riding courses.