Fort Greely

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Sand Lewis Hill Jump:

K-Point:

20 m

Further jumps:	no
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	ca. 1950
Status:	destroyed
Coordinates:	63.984978, -145.744310 ✔

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The small Sand Lewis Hill Jump was built for military purposes. Fort Greely was established in 1942 as Big Delta Army Air Field and later converted into a military base specializing in testing equipment under arctic conditions. In 1948, the Army Arctic School was founded there, and in 1957 it was renamed the U.S. Army Cold Weather and Mountain School. This school conducted training in arctic survival, skiing, and solving tactical and technical challenges in cold climates. When military skiing was emerging in the late 1940s and 1950s, the Fort Greely training center was the only place in the world preparing troops for operations in the Arctic. It was during this time that a 20-meter ski jump was built on Sand Lewis Hill, just north of the main entrance to Fort Greely.
Sources report that in 1959, Jon St. Andre, then a candidate for the Olympic ski jumping team, used the facility. St. Andre was an instructor at the Cold Weather and Mountain School. In 1957, he became the U.S. junior national champion in ski jumping, and at Steamboat Springs, he jumped 300 feet, winning the Merrill Trophy. In 1960, he represented the United States at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, placing 28th in the individual large hill event. In 2008, he was inducted into the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame.

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