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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Ironwood's Curry Hill Ski Jump
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:07
	Publish Date:		2019-03-27 05:00:00
	Description:		Most ski jumping records have been set in Europe… but that wasn’t always the case. Gary Entz tells us about Ironwood’s Curry Hill Ski Jump for this week's A Northwoods Moment in History . Ski jumping as a competitive sport has been going on since 1808. In that year, Olaf Rye set the first world’s ski jump record of 31 feet, in Eidsberg, Norway. Nordic ski jumping has been dominated by European countries, and most of the world’s records have been set in Europe. However, for a brief period in the early twentieth century, the world ski jumping records were not being set in Norway, Austria, or Switzerland. Instead, they were being set at Ironwood, Michigan. The Ironwood Ski Club organized in 1905 and in 1906 operated the 40-meter Curry Hill ski jump outside of Ironwood. The records set at Curry Hill are sometimes mistaken for Wolverine Hill, but the Wolverine Hill ski jump was not built until 1935. World class Nordic skiing came to Ironwood with the Curry Hill ski jump, which at the time
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