Mark Oliver Tessaro just sent us a link to the video above, of an unbelievably fun-looking do-it-yourself ski-hill that he and his roommates built in mid-February on their Kensington Market deck.
Says Mark of the hill:
I live with 3 other guys above a used clothing store in Kensington Market and we have a ridiculously large deck. A few weeks ago this meant that we also had a ridiculously large amount of snow on our deck, so we decided to put an end to the fact that there's no ski-hill in Toronto by creating the Kensington Market Urban Snowpark, with take-off from our roof. So spread the word to all those Torontonians longing for the slopes—turns out all you need is good-old Canadian ingenuity (and, well, some beer) and you can catch some air with the CN Tower in view!
The video––skip to a minute in to pass the photo montage of the hill's construction––manages to be both inspirational and horrifying at once. Sadly, "the jump is a bit dysfunctional now," says Mark, "but we are expecting to get it repaired with the next dump of snow." Good thing that we're looking at as much as twenty-five centimetres more of the stuff tonight, then.

Newsstand: November 19, 2009
i have to say i feel sorry for the owner of this house...imagine the work he'll have to put in to fix the roof in the spring...just another face of vandalism....
Someone should tell these guys about Earl Bales