Red Bull-Sponsored Sarah Hendrickson Reopens and Closes Historic Ski Jump in Milan, N.H.

DOWN THE CHUTE: In what unquestionably was one of the more adrenaline-racing branding feats this year, Red Bull-sponsored Sarah Hendrickson bulleted down a historic ski jump Saturday just a few months after the company helped restore it. The 22-year-old’s ascent was the first to have occurred at the Nansen Ski Jump in 32 years in Milan, N.H., and subsequently its last. The state hopes Saturday’s finale will continue to attract the curious and inadvertently give the local economy a lift. The Coos County town’s population hovers around 1,300 people. After Red Bull executives caught word of the project, they turned to Hutchison who has family ties in the Plymouth area. So what’s it like to race down a 70-meter ski jump at 45 mph on a two-degree Saturday morning? “It was awesome. Obviously when it was over, it was just a great atmosphere and a great community that came out to watch.” said Hendrickson Monday from her grandmother’s home in Plymouth, N.H. The Salt Lake resident ships out to Oslo Thursday for this weekend’s Holmenkollen Ski Festival, this year’s final World Cup stop. Built in 1936, the 171-foot steel-framed structure with wooden planks was once the tallest ski jump in the U.S. More than

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