One everlasting memory for any of us who ever jumped at Bear Mt. is the Bear Mt. crowds. Weekend after weekend, people would line up ten or twenty deep on both sides of the long outrun. For the most part, these were not sophisticated fans of ski jumping. They were park visitors who came to the park on a weekend day and stopped by to watch the ski jumping, perhaps between some ice skating and a visit to the zoo.

A jumper flies over the knoll on the Bear Mt. ski jump. In the
backround we see the Hudson River and the Rustic Bear Mt. Inn.

Art Tokle has an incredible memory for the old characters of ski jumping, and as he showed the book around, he would regale folks with the names of jumpers and others who appeared in the photos. One of the stars of the section on ski jumping was Art's uncle Torger Tokle, introduced under his picture as "the Babe Ruth of ski jumping." Art also told the names of the three measurers visible in the photo below.

Art Tokle says that the distance measurers above are (near to far):
Anund Dahlen, (obscured), Hans Strand and the colorful Ingolf Helgesen.

The picture below hung for decades in the Bear Mountain Inn.
A triple jump by Stan Kissel, Doug Schmeltz and Karl Bohler

The book has chapters on the early history of the area, the birth of the Park and the Inn, the bridge, summer and winter activities, Park attractions, and more.