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16 PL & P

16 PL & P

Northern Lights
Crowds congregate annually at the base of the ‘ Smart Alec ’ ski trail in Ontario to watch the province ’ s finest freestyle skiers and snowboarders perform choreographed flips and tricks off the 50 ft . Big Air Jump , accompanied by music , lights , fireworks , and all manner of show sizzle .
To provide this for the Big Air Show , as the event is known , required the building of a technical infrastructure , with towers rigged with 24 of GLP ’ s ultra-versatile JDC1 hybrid strobes so that spectators could track the action coming down the 200 ft . slope and onto the landing ramp . The FOH position itself was set