Hi, Nice to see someone that was from Edmonton. What part of the city were you from?
Where I live there is a lot of construction and my friends built some dirt drops and dirt jumps. The Construction usually tears up big areas of land and then puts the dirt and other stuff into dirt hills. Usually left for a while to. So theres about 4 or 5 dirt drops there, one of them is about 8 to 9 feet.
I am glad I don't do big drops, seeing as my bike wouldn't handle it, but my friends Kona's do.