The Mega Awesome Water-Pipe Gap

I woke one saturday morning and decided that I was going snowboarding. It was spring riding weather so I threw on a pair of jeans and my tall tee and set off for the mountain. When I got there I decided I was going to ride park for the day and try to meet up with some people from my class. The park was sick so I rode park for a little while, then, as I was riding up the summit chair-lift at Mt. Snow, I saw something that I hadn’t noticed when I was going up the lift earlier, I saw this gap in the trees between two trails. There were two pipes side by side, then about ten feet of grassy hill below them, and one of the trails was a little higher than the other one. I thought, that is an awesome spot to build a jump, there was even a decent landing. I could go off the jump, over the pipes down the bank and onto the trail below. I rode down to this spot and started to build it. After working on it for about forty-five minutes I had built a pretty decent jump. I was getting much applause from the chair-lift while I built it, even some of the Mt. Snow employees were applauding me. While I built it, I wondered what ski patrol would do about it, if they caught me building this would they just ask me to stop, or would they pull my pass? I figured they would just ask me to take it down. With that out of my mind I went back to building the jump. I finally finished it, I didn’t want to ride to the bottom and take the chair-lift up so I hiked about 100’ back up the trail, strapped in and started going down towards the jump. When I got near the jump, I knew I wasn’t going to make it, so I stopped right at the foot of the jump. I hiked back up a little farther this time. Again, I strapped in, but this time I waited a couple of minutes before I started towards the jump. I contemplated what could happen to me when I went off of this jump, I could not clear the pipes, slam into them, and land face first on the trail below, I could land on the grass, have my board stop, then land face first on the trail below, or I could clear it easily. For all three of these I would have gotten more applause then I had gotten while building it ( people like to applaud nasty falls). While I was waiting, these three skiers came by and started to look at the jump. One of them told me it was all clear. I went down, hit the jump. I was anticipating the jump to be a little more mellow than it was, it just chucked me into the air. Anyway, I had enough speed this time and as I shot out over the pipes, I dragged the tail of my board and tail bonked the pipes. I sat down on the side of the trail after I landed and looked back up at the jump. I could see that I had just barely cleared the grass. I was satisfied. I went back to riding park for a couple of hours. Later, when I came back to hit it again, ski patrol had put a rope across the jump so it could go off of it. That made me think that they would have been pretty mad if they had caught me building/hitting it.