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Scaffold Jump:

K-Point:

35 m

Year of construction:	1928
Conversions:	1936 & 1964
Further jumps:	K28, K18
Status:	destroyed
Plastic matting:	no
Ski club:	Rockford Ski Club

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History:

Rockford Ski Club constructed a small ski jump at Kishwaukee River in the end 1920’s. In a spectacular movement, the steel-made inrun tower of the ski jump of Ogden Dunes was dismantled in 1936 and then moved to Rockford. On this 50 meter hill even the US national ski jumping team practised and in 1940’s it was one of the most visited jumps worldwide. The same procedure was then repeated once again in 1950, when the tower was sold from Rockford to Eau Claire and set up again at Hendrickson Hill. Only in 1964 the ski jumping facility was revived and two smaller ski jumps with wooden inrun towers were constructed.
Remarkable is the fact that already four generations of the US ski jumping family Daggett jumped over the steel bakken, wherever it was set up in these times.

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