Big Pines

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Big Pines Ski Jump:

K-Point:	70 m
Hill record:	73.0 m (240 ft) (John Elvrum , 1934)
Coordinates:	34.370619, -117.695368 ✔

Novice Ski Hill:

K-Point:	30 m
Coordinates:	34.377247, -117.694108 ✔

Further jumps:	no
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	1929
Status:	destroyed
Ski club:	Big Pines Ski Club
Coordinates:	34.370619, -117.695368 ✔

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Big Pines, located in the San Gabriel Mountains near Wrightwood, was one of the first ski resorts in California to offer infrastructure for winter sports. In 1924, Big Pines Park was opened as a year-round recreational area. In 1929, the largest ski jumping hill in the world at the time was constructed there, in an effort to attract the 1932 Winter Olympic Games. Although the Games were ultimately awarded to Lake Placid, Big Pines remained an important site for winter sports in California. Between 1929 and 1931, ski jumping competitions were regularly held there, attracting top athletes from across the United States. In 1930, Halvor Bjorngaard set the hill record with a jump of 137.5 feet (approximately 41.9 meters). Bjorngaard was a Norwegian ski jumper who played a significant role in the development of winter sports in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. After emigrating to the U.S., he settled in Wanamingo, Minnesota. He worked as a bricklayer and farm laborer while continuing his ski jumping career. In 1930, Bjorngaard participated in the construction of the Becker Hill ski jump in Ogden, Utah. In the following years, he continued to develop the facility but tragically died in a car accident in the summer of 1931.
In Big Pines in 1931, Alf Engen jumped 234 feet (71.3 meters), a distance only three and a half meters short of his world record set earlier that year at Ecker Hill.

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	1934:	73.0 m	(240 ft) John Elvrum
	1931-02-01:	71.3 m	(234 ft) Alf Engen

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