The Ski and Snowboard Club’s Springer Tour will take place for the 25th time next week

The Park City Ski and Snowboard Club’s Springer Tour will take place for the 25th time next week, making it an integral part of the ski jumping and Nordic combined communities.

Skiers ages 8 to 30 will compete in competitions in Park City and Midway from Monday through next Saturday.

Fans are welcome to all events of the weekThe highlight of the club is the large hill competition on Saturday evening from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tickets for this event cost $20 for everyone ages 13 and up.

There will also be a band and refreshments for fans at the large hill competition.

While the Springer Tour normally has some international participants, this year they are competing at other events in Europe. According to Adam Loomis, the club’s program director, the event will feature around 50 competitors.

Loomis said the Springer Tour is special because of its cross-generational impact, noting that many of today’s large hill competitors were once small hill competitors (ages 8-15).

“Events are important to give back to the community,” Loomis said of why this group is hosting the event. “We definitely hope to raise some money to put toward our programs.”

US Ski and Snowboard recently named the Park City Ski and Snowboard Club one of the best clubs in the country.

Monday and Wednesday are mainly training days at the Springer Tournee, Tuesday is a mentoring day for athletes on the large hill and Thursday, Friday and Saturday are competition days. The action lasts from sunrise to sunset on most days.

Loomis is looking forward to the second year of the revamped large hill competition. Last year, the club added an event where athletes spin a wheel to determine the closest they have to land. Competitors compete for some prize money in the large hill competition.

“Come to the Olympic Park and run to the Nordic ski jumps,” Loomis told interested fans. “Even the small ski jump on Saturday morning is pretty entertaining to watch. The youngsters haven’t been in the sport that long, but it’s still fun to watch them.”

Loomis said the Springer Tour is important for competitors who probably don’t have many opportunities to compete during the summer. For the large hill competitors, many of whom are professionals, it’s a stress-free event.

The event also comes at a sensitive time for Nordic Combined, which lost national team funding from USA Nordic Sport weeks ago. Loomis is a former member of the national Nordic Combined team and his younger brother Ben is now on the team. He would like to see a revival of the sport’s reputation.

One of the club’s coaches, Michael Ward, is also the head coach of the Nordic Combined National Team and the club is actively looking for ways to continue to support the team and the sport.

Loomis hopes the Springer Tour can attract new fans. It usually attracts both locals and tourists who love winter sports. He said the sports are completely different locally and that if they achieve that goal, he would consider the week a success.

Another Parkite and current member of the Nordic Combined team, Stephen Schumann, is fighting for his sport. Schumann will participate in the event as he has for years and will also attend a fundraiser for Nordic Combined USA on Saturday afternoon, which his mother Penni is co-organizing.

“As my home club, the club is very close to my heart and I support it here,” said Schumann about his anticipation of the Springer Tour.