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Anderson Hill

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Anderson Hill:

K-Point:	ca. 60 m
Hill record:	68.0 m (223 ft) (Juhani Kärkinen , 1957-01-27)
Year of construction:	1948
Operating until:	1960

– K60 (1948-1960) – K50 (1926-1930) –

Further jumps:	no
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	1926
Conversions:	1948
Operating until:	1960
Status:	destroyed
Coordinates:	43.695668, -90.845637 ✔

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History:

The Snowflake Ski Club was founded in 1922 and can look back on a long history of ski jumping and ski jumping hills. From 1923 to 1925, the ski jump at the Holte Farm was used. After that, the activities moved to the Anderson Farm in Timber Coulee near today's Snowflake ski jumps. Anderson Hill had a 22-meter high tower and allowed jumps over 50 meters. Alf Engen held the hill record with 187.5 and 193 feet. Around 1930, the ski jump was destroyed by a tornado and the jumping activities came to a standstill. Only later the ski club was re-established as a member of the Tri-State Ski Association. Before and after World War II, the jumping took place on the new hill in the Seas Branch.
In 1947/48 the new 60-meter hill at Anderson Farm was built and opened on February 8, 1948. In 1949, even Petter Hugsted, the Olympic champion of St. Moritz in 1948, jumped there, ringing in an era with regular international competition cups. In the 1950s, more than 10,000 spectators came to the major competitions on Anderson Hill. In 1952 and 1960, the US team also completed its Olympic preparation there.
As the previous hill was exhausted in terms of jumping distance and spectator capacity, in 1960 the Snowflake Ski Club bought the area of the Volden Farm in Timber Coulee in order to build a 90-meter hill.

K60	1957-01-27:	68.0 m	(223 ft) Juhani Kärkinen
K60	1951-01-28:	57.9 m	(190 ft) Jim Running
K60	1948-02-08:	57.6 m	(189 ft) Oscar Severson
K60	1948-02-08:	53.9 m	(177 ft) Billy Olson
K50	:	58.8 m	(193 ft) Alf Engen
K50	:	57.0 m	(188 ft) Alf Engen

Su.	1957-01-27	:	INT	K60	1. Juhani Kärkinen
	1956	:	N-USA	K60	1. Keith Zuehlke
Su.	1951-01-28	:	INT	K60	1. Arnfinn Bergmann
Su.	1949-02-06	:	INT	K60	1. Petter Hugsted

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K-Point:	ca. 50 m
Hill record:	58.8 m (193 ft) (Alf Engen )
Tower height:	22 m
Year of construction:	1926
Operating until:	1930