Artists rendition of the lodge at the Leavenworth Ski Hill with a patio. More than $120,00 was raised Wednesday evening toward a goal of $500,000 to renovate the historic Leavenworth Ski Hill complex.
Kjell Bakke invited me to hear about the winter projects being planned at Leavenworth, and we gathered at the Ski Hill Lodge at foot of the former 90-meter Bakke ski hill, named for his father Magnus and uncle Hermod.
The lodge, built in 1935 by a crew under direction of Magnus Bakke, is one of three projects planned by the Leavenworth Winter Sports Club and the non-profit Ski Hill Heritage Foundation. The other two are a ski museum and a civic ice rink which will be located next to the Leavenworth Festhalle at the north end of town.
The two groups are smiling after raising $125,000 at last week?s fall auction. The ski lodge project includes adding outdoor patios, which would provide gathering places for community groups, as well as improvement indoors, all dependent, of course, upon Forest Service approval of the concept.
Damian Browne, president of the sports club, was in attendance, along with new manager Mark Milliette. The ski hill is an active place in winter, with its small jumping hill designed by Kjell Bakke and the tubing lift and rope tow areas on the former large jumping outruns.
The main hill used to draw thousands of spectators, with special trains from Seattle bringing visitors right downtown, to be hauled to the ski hill in trucks for a big day. The big hill, where Torger Tokle set a national record of 273 feet in 1941, was reshaped and expanded in 1955 to become a 90-meter hill. It operated until 1978.
My memories go back to the 30s, when Olav Ulland came to the ski hill to teach a class in downhill skiing, and when Otto Lang brought his Arlberg technique to the Northwest. I tried a bit of jumping, too, but never got on a hill bigger than the D Hill.
Source: http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2012/nov/01/wilf-woods-leavenworth-winter-sports-club-has-big/
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