- They should put frost rails on the sill.

- That would be amazing.

- Did they flag me?

- Yep.

(skier whooshes by) (mellow music) - Oh, he gets the wind.

(skier whooshes by) (upbeat music) (announcer speaking) - A lot of people think it looks dangerous, but it's actually much safer than a lot of people immediately think.

You're just going with the hill.

The crashes, if you have a crash, which are very uncommon, are never, are not like bad.

(skier whooshes by) (upbeat music) (crowd cheers) (cowbell ringing) - It's like this feeling where the wind resistance just sort of pushes against your skis and body, and you just sort of float down the hill.

(upbeat music) Yeah, my friends say it looks terrifying.

(chuckles) Pretty much.

- It's not that scary at first, because- - When you are not...

When you are beginner, it gets scary.

It's scary for the first time.

- Yeah.

- [Victoria] But after that, then you get used to it, and then you won't feel frightened anymore.

- And a trick to go down the jump is to not think about what is going to happen.

(skier whooshes by) - Don't turn until you get to the end of the blue fencing, okay?

Let it go straight.

(skier whooshes by) (announcer speaking) Whoo!

- I've only been doing ski jumping for two months.

When you ski jump, you have to get in your in-run position, and that means you get like low to the ground and you put your arms out.

Then when you go out, you have to extend your legs.

- The point is to get as far down the hill as you can.

And there's also a style component.

So there are five judges that score you based on how still and quiet you are in the air.

- Like, if you put one foot in front of the other on your landing, then you get better style points.

(crowd cheering) And if you're like, flapping your hands in the air, it subtracts style because it makes you look more unstable.

(skier whooshes and slides) - Ooh.

- I'm good.

(cowbell tinkling) - [Bystander] Good job!

- Okay, and we're gonna be watching the tower because we're starting to get those jumpers back up for a longest standing jump.

Style doesn't count.

Not on this one.

The longest jump we've had this weekend is 66 meters by Caleb Zuckerman.

Longest standing jump.

It's coming!

Gonna be big, just a little while.

What a beautiful day to be outside on a Saturday afternoon.

Where else you gonna be?

It's a point of pride here.

It really was Nordic immigrants who came here, the Satre brothers specifically, who came here, and brought the sport of ski jumping from Europe.

Brought it over here and brought that passion.

And they were skiing off the backs of barns and little hills.

There used to be little jumps all over town.

- They always say that their first ski jump was off the roof of a house, but surely there were ski jumps everywhere.

Every town had a little ski jump somewhere, and they've all sort of died and gone by the wayside.

Except for here.

(upbeat music) - It always just misses ya.

But we're supposed to (inaudible).

- I would like that to be the case.

- [Announcer] On this beautiful Saturday.

Thanks for coming out-.

- The little branches are there to show the jumpers' distances on the hill.

They're Christmas tree boughs.

We get people that donate Christmas trees after they're done and it also helps 'em in flat light be able to see the landing hill and makes it easier for 'em to control what they're doing.

(cowbell ringing) (upbeat music) (crowd cheering) - My most favorite part is to make new friends.

We even have some conversations up at the top of the hill.

We're talking about how our day is and like how our jump was like, and like stories of our life.

- I don't know.

It's really difficult to describe.

You have a total sense of focus in your, in complete control of what's happening and you're just, when your skis are under you and you're out on the hill, it's just a great feeling.

(upbeat jazz music)