Glacier View, near the toe of Matanuska Glacier, celebrated the Fourth of July with lots of food, a parade and an airplane flyover. They also launched three vehicles off the bluff. The fourth, a Ford van, came off the guide wire at the last moment and crashed head-on into a bulldozer.

Party organizer Arnie Hrncir said the team has never launched three vehicles before at the party. "Any little kid's dream is to roll a rock down a hill. This is times 10," said Arnie's son, Dustin Hrncir.

Hrncir estimates the third car off the jump, an early-'90s Nissan Pathfinder, reached 55 miles per hour on the 500-foot runway and traveled a distance of 100 yards in the air — both records for the celebration.