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Karhunvuori
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Karhunvuoren Hyppyrimäki:
| K-Point: | 12 m |
| Further jumps: | no |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Year of construction: | 1930's |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Coordinates: | 61.047910, 28.251819 
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History:
Karhunvuoren Hyppyrimäki in Lappeenranta was a small wooden training ski jump with a K-point of 12, located on a forested slope in today’s Karhuvuori district, about 5 km south of the city centre. It was built in the 1930s and is among the oldest documented ski jumping hills of its kind in the area.
According to the regional publication Kaakkois-Suomen hyppyrimäet 1930–2020, it was on this hill that boys from the nearby Tirilä district took their first steps in ski jumping as early as the 1930s. Karhunvuori was therefore a typical “small hill”, used primarily by local youth for learning and training ski jumping. In the recollections of one of the local jumpers, Matti Räsänen, the 10-metre hill in Karhunvuori eventually became too small for them and inspired the construction of a larger K20 hill in nearby Veistonvuori.
The structure of the jump has not survived to the present day, but its location is still clearly recognisable: the regional monograph describes it as a distinct clearing in the forest, situated directly next to today’s Karhuvuori fitness trail (Karhuvuoren kuntopolku), which now serves runners and cross-country skiers.
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