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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Funding Gives Copper Peak New Hope for Future Ski Jumping Competitions
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:47
	Publish Date:		2019-03-08 05:00:00
	Description:		Thanks to recent funding from the Michigan legislature, there is a lot in store for the future of Copper Peak - the ski flying hill in Ironwood, Michigan. As part of our We Live Up Here series, Monie Shackleford tells us about Copper Peak’s backstory, as well as what we can expect for its future. In late December of 2018, the Michigan legislature funded 10 million dollars to two ski jumps of the western upper peninsula: Copper Peak, near Ironwood and Pine Ski Jump in Iron Mountain. Copper Peak is not just a ski jump, it is one of only six ski flying hills in the world and the only ski flying hill in the western hemisphere. A ski flying hill is basically a very large ski jump. To understand the size of the Copper Peak jump, consider this: visitors take a chairlift up the hill, followed by a 18 story elevator and then walk up 8 flights of stairs. The existence of this gigantic jump reflects the deep history and passion of ski jumping in the region. Charlie Supercynski has been the
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