History of ironwood:
The first ideas to built the largest jump of the world had the members of Gogebic Range Ski Club already in 1935, but it took 35 years to realize their thoughts. The ski flying hill opened in March 1970 is the largest ski jump on the American continent and is situated at Chippewa Hill in the western area of Michigan called Gogebic.
The name Copper Peak comes from the copper mining which began in this area at about 1884, but also iron was dug out as the city Ironwood shows. The inrun tower is made of 30 tons of steel and 73 meters high, that is the height of a 24 store building. On top of it there is a panorama platform which can be reached by an elevator and is 543.5 above sea level. On days with good view you can see around 60 km.
From 1970 to 1994 ten ski flying competitions took place and the last hill record was set up by the two Austrians M. Wallner and W. Schuster with 158 m in 1994.
1975 the ski club built three junior hills (K50, 30 and 10) at the side of Wolverine Hill for younger jumpers.
Of course also the ski flying hill was converted, as in 1980 when the outrun was lowered 3 m to make jumps on 180 m possible and in 1988 when the takeoff angle was changed on 12° according to the FIS rules.
Since 1994 Copper Peak which is the only ski flying hill in the western hemisphere, hasn’t been used and has no FIS certificate, only in summer tourists come to visit the hill.
But there are plans to reanimate the jump, so that world cup jumps again are possible on the K170-facility. Unfortunately the financial situation is not very good and there is no big public interest in ski flying at Copper Peak. The last World Cup event took place in 1994. If the jumps are revitalized, the landing hill will be adapted to modern standard and a new judges tower has to be build.
How are you thinking, what are K point?
K145 HS160
K160 HS175
K170 HS185
K-HS=15
I like this hill, hope, will be in dsj4.
I like, since majority hills have HS124-145.Boring!
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