Mount Hood

Cascade Hill

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Multorpor Ski Jumps:

K-Point:	60 m
Hill record:	68.3 m (224 ft) (Ragnar Ulland , 1958)
Take-off angle:	8°
Landing angle:	38°

K-Point:	45 m
Hill record:	53.9 m (177 ft)

K-Point:	25 m
Hill record:	30.2 m (99 ft) (Asbjørn Nordheim , 1970-02-08)

Year of construction:	1928
Conversions:	1931
Further jumps:	K10, K7
Status:	destroyed
Plastic matting:	no
Ski club:	Cascade Ski Club

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History:

The first ski jumping event on Multorpor ski jump at Mt. Hood, Oregon, was held on January 6, 1929, already two years later the hill was newly shaped and the whole facility extended by Cascade Ski Club on four jumps.
The Cascade Jump is of very old design featuring a very shallow takeoff angle and sharp knoll dropping quickly to a very steep landing hill. The Cascade hill was famous for very large snow depths making the hill preparation very time consuming. The K60 and K45 shared the same landing hill and were typically used only once yearly during the 1950's and 1960's while the K25 was in use continuously into the early 1970's by only a few jumpers.
The ski jumping program at Mt. Hood ended with the last competition on the large hill in March 1971. The most famous event on the Cascade Hill took place the week following the 1960 Squaw Valley California Winter Olympic Games when the Japan Olympic Ski Jump team came to Oregon and put on an exhibition ski jump. The event was well attended by thousands of ski jumping fans from the Portland area. The most famous jumper from Mt Hood was 4 times United States Nordic Combined Olympian Mike Deveka (72 to 84) who started his jumping career on the Cascade Hill in the 1960's.

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