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Bakke Hill:
| K-Point: | 100 m |
| Hill record: | 105.2 m (345 ft) (Greg Swor , 1970) |
| Year of construction: | 1933 |
| Further jumps: | K70, K45, K18 |
| Status: | destroyed |
Leavenworth Ski Hill:
| K-Point: | 27 m |
| Year of construction: | 2009 |
| Further jumps: | K15 |
| Status: | operating |
| Further jumps: | no |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Ski club: | Leavenworth WSC |
History:
Leavenworth Winter Sports Club was founded in 1928 and ski jumping had been part of the club life from the beginning on.
Bacause a smaller ski jump had already been existing, on which Sigried Hansen jumped 65 feet (20 m) at the first competition in 1929, Bakke Hill was built up in 1933 and with its critical point of 73 m it was one of the largest ski jumps of the whole country. Over the decades it was existing, it was enlarged several times and gained a good reputation as the most known ski jump in western United States through the hosting of the U.S. American championships in 1941, 1959, 1967, 1974 and 1978.
End of 1970’s the interest in ski jump at Leavenworth declined heavily and other new-built large hill ski jumps like Steamboat Springs, Iron Mountain and the fling hill at Ironwood were taken in advance to Leavenworth.
The most famous ski jumper from Leavenworth is former United States Olympic team member Ron Steele who was the best placed American jumper in the 1972 Sapporo, Japan Olympics.
Nevertheless, the ski club tried a restart from 1986 to ’88 with the planned new-construction of a K40 and K25 ski jumping hill. Unfortunately this activity did not lead into a long-lasting ski jumping tradition as it was in the past.
For the winter sports season 2009/2010 another attempt to revive ski jumping in Leavenworth was made and on January 31, 2010 the first “Bakke Cup” with competitions for children in alpine skiing, ski jumping and cross-country was organized.
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As a kid living in Leavenworth during the 1940s I saw some great ski jumping. I could only jump the "D" hill. I remember the Bakke family. I remember the "A" hill jumpers with hands out over the front of the skis. Later on the jumpers streamlined with hands behind. I know the modern jumpers soar with skis apart, but the streamlined soaring was more beautiful to watch. I saw the great American skier, Art Devlin, out jump the hill, landing in the "dip", crashed and I believe he broke his leg.