For the past little while Ross, a few others and I have been working on a few lines in our zone known as MTBville, for some shooting/filming. The whole project has been a huge load of work but we finished up two of the hits today and they are looking unreal.
All the stuff built is for Gully, Lorny and Ross to film on with Anthill and, Me and Harookz will be shooting some stills like bawses. Peep it… maybe puppets can pick up a few tricks on how to build proper stuff in their local MTBville.
The hit I’m most stoked on has to be the curved wall to gap. It’s not something absoloutly nuts when it comes to size but the building of it had Ross and I stoked the whole way through. We worked like god-damn child prodigies at the puzzle section in Dad’s Sunday Paper. When we framed everything up we made sure not to nail into any live trees… This worked out perfectly and there are only two sections where the stringers are anchored down to the ground for support. The rest of the support comes from the stringers being pressure-fit between the two live trees we framed against. Best part is though, we winged the whole thing.
Here’s three shots showing the progression of the pressure fit stringers.



Once we got all the sringers together I missed out on a couple building days while Ross and Harookz sent it with the gas axe. Last night at Jordie’s birthday all I heard about were these unreal cedar rungs they got out of this log that were about 5’6” long, 8” wide and 2.5” thick and straight, without knots. Apparently they just came from Ikea and they didn’t mill them… Realistically though, they found a burried long with a diameter of about 3 feet that was left from when the mountain was originally logged at the start of the 1900′s.
With it being burried that allowed the wood to stay moist over the hundred something years the tree has been fallen for allowing it to split easily and straight seeing as there was plenty of moisture in the grain of the wood. This also prevent the rungs from splitting once they get hammered into. To split them all that was needed was one sharp axe head and a hammer, with two hits they would pop from the section cut out of the log. Once I saw what they had made I was stoked!
Here is a quick gander at the slats starting the wallride (the ones at the lip are shaped far better):

There also is the fact that the dirtwork leading up to the ladder is absolutly top-notch aswell. We framed in all the gold soil with the rungs that didn’t split off perfectly just to create a nice box to hold everything in and look better than Kate Moss on the cover of Vogue (sheeiiiiittt).
The landing still has to be buffed out and packed but that’s also looking unreal. For now though take a gander at some more sweet cell phone pics, beucase as a photographer I aim for nothing but the highest quality images.
Ross fine-tuning some slats on the entrance:

Connor and Ross jumping around like some sickiwicki froggys:

Slats still need cutting for everything to look level:


One dark shot looking from the lip of the step-down into the wall:

Hope you enjoy not riding this shit beucase once it’s polished up there will be a chain going up aswell.
Cheers.
-Derek