*warning: blurry photos ahead, do not adjust your eyes*
Step 1:
Find east facing slope that has been baking in the sun all week. Climb said slope.
Step 2:
Achieve a zen-like state and sit/ponder the conditions you’ll be encountering in the near future to decide how you’d like to structure your base.
Step 3:
Crack beer and drink while continuing to ponder. Throw in occasional curse about POS tripod that broke and how it’s cramping your photo steez.
Step 4:
Ride down hill ’til the snow runs out and you’re faced with at least a 30 foot (research shows 30 foot is the minimum to get a quality grind) section of sand and other non-snow surfaces. Tell buddies that you’d just ollie the gap or ( __insert miscellaneous BS here____ ) if it were light out and you could see, but as it’s not you’ll just ride over it. Bonus points for snagging nose on a tree or rock and throwing in a sommersault halfway thru the base grind.
Step 5:
Meet back up with snow, turn back and admire your work, then proceed to ride ’til you hit pavement. Call it a night knowing you’ve just saved yourself $50 on a basegrind/structuring.
Step 6:
Admire handiwork in the daylight the next day, confident that the structure you added will help channel water off your base this spring.
