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In January of 1994, an 18-year-old Austrian ski jumper named Mathias Wallner leapt 518 feet from Copper Peak, a distance that would have carried him over the top of 13 city buses parked end to end.It was a North American record.No one has ever leapt farther from Copper Peak, because Copper Peak, the largest artificial ski jump in the world, never hosted another competition.
The board that runs the facility north of Ironwood in the far western corner of the Upper Peninsula planned to take a break from competition the following year to deal with erosion on the hill and to figure out how to pay off about $300,000 in debt.
One year stretched to 28.
But Copper Peak is about to make a very big comeback. With $20 million from the state of Michigan, Copper Peak is embarking on a plan to reopen as both the only ski flying hill outside of Europe. Goal is to open Oct 2024.
I’d love it once I was soaring in the air but don’t think I would have the balls to do it.
We have one here in Brattleboro I think it is about 320 feet.
Ski Flying
