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Alaska Methodist University Ski Hill and Jump 1967 to 1980s |
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This 2002 aerial view of Anchorage shows where the AMU / APU campus is located. (click on this view to expand it) |
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A zoomed in view shows the Alaska Pacific University campus and the location of the old AMU ski hill and jump. (click on view to expand it) |
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Zooming in further, you can see the location of where the jump and outrun was located. And the estimated location of the rope tow. (click on view to expand it) |
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These mid 1970's aerial views, provided by Benji and Shannon Uffenbeck, show the AMU ski hill and jump. A zoomed in shot of the ski hill and jump can be seen on the right. Note in the picture that there is not yet the Moseley Sports Center or the President's House. (click on view to expand it) |
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Research Correspondence |
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[Paul Wunnicke - 03 February 2005 email excerpt]
We were jumping off the APU jump in
1974/75 even though it was "closed". It got kind of scary as
the boards were getting rotten and then i had a big wreck and quit
doing it.
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[Mike Hopkins - 17 July 2012 email]
You can see from the point spread in the article [see above] that cross country was the University of Alaska’s strong event. We won the two Alpine events but were overwhelmed by their strong cross country showing. Our team skied on cross county skis borrowed from the US Biathlon team who were doing some of their training on the AMU campus. Even with the Biathlon teams help we were no match in that event. Thank you for your ambitious project. It was fun to remember skiing from those days. I transferred from AMU to the University of Denver to finish school and continued to race and teach skiing for many years after that. |
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[Tony Reetz - 11 April 2014 email]
The picture of the young guy going off the AMU jump in 1967, right hand side of the page, with his hands up, is Bruce Fenn. His whole family was active in alpine racing. We used to race together in the Mighty Mites and Alyeska Ski Team, and a bunch of us did a stint nordic jumping--even my dad, Augie Reetz. |
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