Backyard Builds is a Bike Mag series featuring some of your favorite riders and the unbelievable builds they have on their personal properties. For the third installation in the series, we chat with Oregon born-and-bred professional freerider, Carson Storch, whose at-home compound certainly makes the rest of our backyards look like they’re not trying hard enough.
Photo courtesy of&colon Carson Storch
Athlete name, property location, property nickname?
Carson Storch, Southern Deschutes County, Storch Compound.
How did you find your property? Were you looking for land that you could build on or did that idea come later?
I found my land during COVID, and honestly had no plans of moving out of my old house, but found a good deal on a pretty decent chunk of land and went for it. As soon as I acquired it, I did some digging tests with an excavator and was stoked: Central Oregon is full of bedrock, lava tubes, and rocks, but the zone where my land is an ancient lake bed from the ice age, which means there are no rocks in the soil. I started building a new training compound before I secured my construction loan for the house!