Maybe it's sheer athleticism, but that's not quite it. Aspen kids are on skis for so much of their life. When they put on jumping skis, they are just big skis. They are not intimidated and handle it beautifully. They are fearless.

The kids are smart and are terrific listeners. They are learning something on jump after jump. It's obvious they're having a blast.

The school is no longer the center of social life. Kids are either working to help their families or hanging on the street corner.

It looks dangerous, but this is a very safe sport. That's a really hard thing to explain to people. If parents knew how safe this was and if kids came out and found out how much fun and what an amazing rush this is, I'd like to think we'd have a lot more jumpers.

The kids who have weapons in the community - we want to have an appropriate response. We want them to know it's not OK to carry them around in the community.

It was like -- oh my God, I can't believe it. So everybody came out and there were kids lying on the ground, running all over the place.