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Things escalate pretty fast when Max Moffat puts together a crew for a rail session. As in, the day starts with hitting a 32-foot tear drop rail and next thing you know, Moffat and his friends have added 10 new sections to make a 210-foot rail.
How did they get there? Well, the concept is pretty simple. Stealing from the trampoline game, Add On, Moffat, Mark Hendrickson, Jesper Tjader, Hunter Henderson, and Brayden Tritter all take turns hitting a rail. Once one of them successfully clears the full section, they simply add another rail. Once one of them clears the new, longer rail, they add another, and another, and so on until things get ridiculous — 10 rails totaling two-thirds the length of a football field.
The crew mostly breezes through the first five rails. At six rails their contraption sneaks past 100 feet long with two elbows and it takes Hendrickson 12 attempts before they can finally move onto a seventh. At nearly 150 feet now, the crew has four redirecting kinks in a rail that is starting to look pretty ridiculous. With the eighth and ninth rails added, the monstrosity reaches approximately 190 feet.
“I was thinking this is the hardest rail, but I got it in 10 attempts, so we’ve got to keep adding more,” says Tjader, which is ironic because he set a world record in 2022 by hitting a 506-foot rail. That feat took 127 attempts though, so knocking down 10 attempts at a rail fewer than 200 feet long probably is a walk in the park, redirections and all.
The tenth and final rail brings the grand total to 210 feet and eight inches. It takes the crew more than 200 attempts to finally close this one out after four full days of sessions.
“By far the hardest rail I’ve ever tried,” Moffatt said.
