Alaska Do-It-Yourself Excitement - The Glacier View Car Launch

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It's the Fourth of July celebration in a little town about 100 miles north of Anchorage called Glacier View

Fireworks aren't really a thing there, since in July sunset is about 11:30 PM and sunrise about 4:30 AM. So instead of fireworks, they drive cars off a cliff! What else do you expect them to do?

(Don't worry, there's nobody in the cars.)

The objective seems to be to reach the pond at the bottom of the cliff (where the crowd is)

Despite Glacier View only having ~200 residents, many thousands of people turn out. It's an Alaska thing...

(not something you would ever see in Manhattan or San Francisco...)

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1816560876637552778

https://autos.yahoo.com/alaskas-unique-i...36172.html

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ZXmE_YaGVs4

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[...] Despite Glacier View only having ~200 residents, many thousands of people turn out. It's an Alaska thing...

Genius. Finding the right way to exploit a local terrain feature. Wouldn't have that available in a flatland Podunk of Kansas or Iowa.

Apparently, just getting one to leap in the right direction is key (avoid tumbling into that dense thicket of trees on one side, below).