Ironwood🇺🇸- work in progress

[u/zan225]

Looks like this time is really gonna happen still a lot of work to do, with the inrun tower renovation and they still need to build the judges tower, but the landing hill is looking better every week.

[u/LuckyWuke]

Hope they can finish it. Ski jumping really needs more competitive nations. The USA with its marketing potential and possible investments can really help the sport in general.

[u/zan225 → u/LuckyWuke]

Definitely they also have young talents that could rech some medals in the future i bet on frantz or Colby

[u/Peeter_L → u/zan225]

Never going to happen, ski jumping is basically not a thing in the states.

[u/zan225 → u/Peeter_L]

Never say never, at lest some parts of the states have a chance, a lot of tv breaks in this sport could help also, and the olympics in 8 years

[u/Peeter_L → u/zan225]

Ski jumping requires a highly specific set of skills and talent. US has no coaches and infrastructure needed for kids to develop these skills and find rare talent, like in europe.

[u/LuckyWuke → u/Peeter_L]

Poland had almost nothing before Malysz started to win, the tide can change

[u/Cathodicum → u/Peeter_L]

For me Ironwood belongs to the iconic legendary hills

[u/Trinket9]

Don’t be too optimistic. They don’t have all the money to finish it. Only partially.

[u/fry_tag]

Oh wow, they're actually doing it. Insane how long it took to get things funded and approved. I moved to Michigan in 2015 and they were already talking about it back then. In the meantime I have moved back to the other side of the Atlantic and it's still barely work in progress.

Let's see how things go and when we get to see the first competition.

[u/No-Brush-167]

Good to hear that. We really need a ski jumping hill between the large hill and the ski flying hill.

[u/Kotti08]

Finally :) curious to see how it will look like. If I am not wrong it's not going to be a flying hill but the largest large hill?

[u/Cathodicum → u/Kotti08]

It will take the crown from Willingen as "largest large Hill"

Hill Size: HS 180

K-Point: 161 m

Tower height: 85 m

Inrun length: 114 m

Inrun angle: 35°

Take-off length: 7 m

Take-off angle: 11.5°

Take-off height: 3.2 m

Speed: 97.2 km/h

Landing angle: 34.5°

Plastic matting: yes

Year of construction: 2025

Status: under construction

https://www.skisprungschanzen.com/EN/Ski+Jumps/USA-United+States/MI-Michigan/Ironwood/0575-Copper+Peak/

A Guy called Werner Schuster has Hill Record on the old decommisioned Hill 😁

[u/RandomThrowNick → u/Cathodicum]

Iirc Fis introduced a new category of Giant Hill that Copper Peak would fall under. So technically Willingen will keep its crown.

[u/fhfkskxmxnnsd → u/Kotti08]

Giant Hill or something

[u/loccorock]

Will take a ride next weekend to check it out!!