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Selva di Val Gardena St. Christina im Grödner Tal / Sëlva Gherdëina
Val
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L Saut de Val:
| K-Point: | ca. 30 m |
| Tower height: | 10 m |
| Further jumps: | no |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Year of construction: | 1934 |
| Conversions: | 1936 |
| Operating until: | 1966 |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Ski club: | Alpen Ski Club Ladinia/Ski Club Gardena |
| Coordinates: | 46.560890, 11.772042 ✔ 
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History:
The history of the ski jump in the Langental valley is closely linked to Hulda Tutino-Steel. Tutino-Steel was a wealthy baroness from Great Britain who spent her first vacation in Val Gardena in 1934, after which she, like many of her compatriots, fell in love with the Dolomites. For nearly 20 years, she resided annually at Villa Frainela in Selva, which still exists today as a vacation rental. In Selva, she met the local mountain guide Ferdinand Glück (1901–1987), who from then on was always by her side as she explored the area.
Tutino-Steel, who also sponsored ski racer Paula Wiesinger, was so impressed by Glück that one day it is said to have told him: "Ferdinand, I’d like to give you a gift. Would you prefer a house or a ski jump?" Without hesitation, Glück is said to have replied, "A ski jump." That very same year, the project, which cost 35,000 lire, was carried out. The land at the entrance to Vallunga, on the site of today’s "Parëi di Ciampac" climbing park, was provided by a man named Rudi Kasslatter. In 1936, after several improvements, the final version of the jump was completed. Numerous workers took up their pickaxes and piled several boulders to a total height of ten meters to construct a takeoff tower. Meanwhile, the hardworking helpers were fed by the grandfather of Kasslatter’s wife, Karl Mussner, who brought them the "marënda" (Ladin for lunch).
According to accounts, however, the inrun was still too short to achieve the desired distances on the jump, as the jumpers repeatedly complained. Although competitions were held there and it was frequented by elementary school children— despite a steel cable serving as a barrier—it gradually lost its significance over the years. It was finally abandoned in the mid-1960s.
In 2005, the fixed-grip two-seater chairlift "Val" was built in the immediate vicinity; from there, the forest clearing of the former ski jump is still clearly visible, as is a wooden sign commemorating the first ski jump in the Val Gardena valley. While Tutino-Steel was buried in Siusi allo Sciliar after her death, a new ski jump was built in 2006—40 years after the Langental ski jump was abandoned—on Monte Pana in the neighboring village of Santa Cristina.
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