Anyone that's been up on the mountains and gets to see that viewpoint, understands how special it is up here.

And that just takes it to a whole ‘nother level of, feeling of freedom.

About five years ago, the idea had crossed my path.

One way or another, I think I read something online about, a group of high school students that had done it, and it sounded like a great time.

We didn't have anything coming up the following weekend, which was the solstice weekend.

So I put something together on Facebook.

A quick post to friends and people in the hiking community to see who wanted to come and join.

We got a great response on it.

So we took pieces of the trampoline to the top of the mountain and put it together to jump at midnight Who wants a piece of the trampoline?

I was nervous at first about, well, we have enough people to bring it up.

Even more so, are enough people going to stick around to bring all the pieces back down, because they've all got to make it home, and I can't carry them all myself.

It went really, really smooth.

Everyone grabs a piece, heads up the mountain.

The goal is for the last piece to head up by about 10:30. the reason that we chose Flattop and the reason I like to do it, there's so much is It's kind of that iconic hike right on the outside of Anchorage.

were less likely to have folks lose their way coming up or down.

There's multiple ways to get up the mountain.

And then of course, the, layout on the top of the mountain, the how much flat area you have that's available to set something like this up, and to have a lot of people up on the top of the mountain.

Flattop is one of very few places that affords that type of space.

So it's nice to have have that as well, so that more people can be up there and not have to cycle up and down off of a ridgeline.

We try to get it up there a little early so we have time to put it together.

by the time we get it assembled and have people jumping on it, it usually goes for an hour and a half to two hours.

We've had folks jumping as late as 1:15 and 1:30, if I recall, on the really, really beautiful, weather evenings.

The hardest part of the process is putting it together up there.

If you've ever put one together before, stretching that canvas for those last few springs can be pretty difficult.

But, there's always a few fellows up there that are eager to show everyone they can do it and, generously let them take that, take that award, if you want to call it that.

We all just kinda met.

Were now new friends.

my favorite part of hiking up was carrying the spring and knowing it was monumental to creating the trampoline.

we immediately jumped on the trampoline and started jumping.

Knowing it was definitely not stable, but still doing it anyway.

I had to add a little tighten to the screw while you were jumping on it.

It's still holding, its working.

I never thought that it would grow in the way that it has.

So it's really exciting to see all of the interest, both from new folks that are hiking a few folks that brought their kids up.

And from what I understood, it was their first experience hiking Flattop.

And to have that fun, kind of reward at the end of it and seeing them enjoying the trampoline and getting to jump on it, it was a really neat experience.

if the event can continue to grow and do so so that more people can have access to it and everyone can continue to enjoy it safely.

Then, you know, there's I don't see any reason why we couldn't start introducing a second trampoline, a third trampoline.

You know, I'm willing to take it as far as the community support goes with it, if there's demand for, growth on the event, then I say, let's go for it.