Copper Peak Adventure Ride

[jkallinen]

Been on Vacation just 5 miles down the road from Copper Peak Ski Flying Hill since last Tuesday staying at Big Powderhorn Ski Resort.
They finally opened up for the season today 6/15/2011. So we went down and checked out the jump. There will no more ski jumping
at this hill, its more of tourist attraction now and in winter used for snowmobile hill climbing comps.Its quite the adventure getting to
the top of the jump. Chairlift ride takes you up a cliff. Then you get off on the top only walk down a 400ft trail that drops about 40ft
behind the hilltop to get to the elevator for the ride up. Then you must climb up the stairs to the top. Rather un-nerving when you get
to the stairs that are the open type steel fencing. Looking down through it . Its a long drop and the wind up here is always strong.

Take a look through the shots in a slideshow on Flickr. Will have 1080P video of the adventure up next week when we make our way
back home.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1001jimk/s ... 6198/show/

[dec]

Enjoyed the slideshow, thanks for sharing!

[jkallinen]

Thanks, finally home after 2 weeks. First video of the adventure is up on youtube. Picked up a couple DVD`s from their gift store and converted them.
First one is the Copper Peaks first Ski Flying Event held in 1972. The next is ESPN coverage of the 1989 World cup at Copper Peak. Still in the process of
converting. 1972 event is uploading now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzjElwifYU8

[jkallinen]

Here is the 1972 first Ski Flying Event held at Copper Peak. Going to be more work getting the ESPN 1989 video up. Must split it to fit into my 2gb youtube upload limit.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=jka ... YhfvARfHY4

[EliteAti]

Thanks for sharing man, interesting to watch.

[J.MIRO]

''Pekka Hyvarinen, FIS Technical Director from Finland, visited the Copper Peak site on September 8, 2010. His report provides the Copper Peak Board with a game plan to bring the facility up to the latest FIS standards. Obviously there are a number of things to be done, but his encouraging words, simply stated, were, "It's doable". We will be working closely with Wolfgang Happle from Germany, Kyle Gilbertson of the USSA, and Pekka to assure a proper hill profile.''

So, maybe...
And look at this. This is record copper peak by werner shuster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDhEzFXh ... re=related

[EliteAti]

There are some videos on youtube from 2010-2011 winter jumps on the hill, but to me the hill looks really dangerous.

[Jessica]

I was schocked my this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YWbgYyG ... re=related
It is world record ski jump... have a look...

[pepsiman89]

thats not a "ski jump"

[jkallinen]

thats not a "ski jump"

You are right, that is a cliff jump by a dead man. He killed himself by skiing out bounds at Snowbird UT before the season started,died in an Avalanche
2 days ago. World record holder for the highest ever cliff jump at 225ft.

[jkallinen]

There are some videos on youtube from 2010-2011 winter jumps on the hill, but to me the hill looks really dangerous.

Would love to see some links to view them ? Youtube does not have any.