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[[Image:longview.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]]LONGVIEW SKI JUMP. This site, located three miles north of Dubuque along Peru Road and near [[FOUR MOUNDS]], featured a 300-foot slide constructed on the north side of the steep bluff high above the Sullivan farm. Estimates of 225-foot jumps were made. | [[Image:longview.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]]LONGVIEW SKI JUMP. This site, located three miles north of Dubuque along Peru Road and near [[FOUR MOUNDS]], featured a 300-foot slide constructed on the north side of the steep bluff high above the Sullivan farm. Estimates of 225-foot jumps were made. | ||
[[Image:longviewp.png|right|thumb|250px|]]Many attending the opening day had to walk two or three miles when crowds of four to five thousand people came to watch exhibition leaps of the Flying Eagles Club from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The longest jump of the day was recorded at 110 feet. The following day Steve Egeness thrilled an estimated two thousand visitors with a jump of 142 feet. | [[Image:longviewp.png|right|thumb|250px|]] | ||
Many attending the opening day had to walk two or three miles when crowds of four to five thousand people came to watch exhibition leaps of the Flying Eagles Club from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The longest jump of the day was recorded at 110 feet. The following day Steve Egeness thrilled an estimated two thousand visitors with a jump of 142 feet. | |||
[[Category: Athletics-Skiing]] | [[Category: Athletics-Skiing]] | ||
Revision as of 20:25, 15 February 2011
LONGVIEW SKI JUMP. This site, located three miles north of Dubuque along Peru Road and near FOUR MOUNDS, featured a 300-foot slide constructed on the north side of the steep bluff high above the Sullivan farm. Estimates of 225-foot jumps were made.
Many attending the opening day had to walk two or three miles when crowds of four to five thousand people came to watch exhibition leaps of the Flying Eagles Club from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The longest jump of the day was recorded at 110 feet. The following day Steve Egeness thrilled an estimated two thousand visitors with a jump of 142 feet.