The 15 or so young skiers and snowboarders waited for the signal to take off into the night sky as music blared from the “Big Jump” on King Pine’s East Slope. Once they got the go ahead, they launched their way down the slope to the jump that vaulted them up into the air as they performed a single trick.
Some landed spot on. Others not so much.
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