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The peak, also known as Chippewa Hill, is a felsite hill about three hundred feet in height. The hill slopes steeply to the north and south, and there is a steep bluff on the east side of the hill. The Copper Peak ski-slide and tower dominates the peak of the hill. The tower sits on concrete footings based in solid rock.
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An artist's rendering of Copper Peak, once the world's largest ski flying hill in the Upper Peninsula that has been closed for decades, shows what the project could look like if revitalized.
View of all jumps and training facilities. Suicide Hill Ski Jump is a 90-meter ski jump located in Negaunee, Michigan, and is part of the Ishpeming Ski Club.It is one of three major ski jumps located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (the others being Copper Peak (a larger ski flying hill) and Pine Mountain Ski Jump).
There are two other ski jumps in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Copper Peak is the only Ski flying venue in the western hemisphere, located near Ironwood, Michigan (and has been called "Suicide hill"), [8] as well as the pre-existing Suicide Hill Ski Jump located at Ishpeming, Michigan, which is near the National Ski Hall of Fame. [8]
Copper Peak revitalization was pitched as an economic development project for the Upper Peninsula, which already has two working ski jumps. Michigan Is Spending Millions Trying To Refurbish a Ski ...
Getting to the top of the jump is half the fun, with a ride up a chairlift and elevator, then climbing eight more stories of stairs.
Copper Peak is an 8,965-foot (2,733-metre) mountain summit located in the Entiat Mountains, a sub-range of the North Cascades, in Chelan County of Washington state. [4] Copper Peak is situated 80 miles northeast of Seattle in the Glacier Peak Wilderness , on land managed by the Wenatchee National Forest .