"Aude Volare" -- Dare to Fly!
New Heights, Online
the electronic newsletter of
Eastern U.S. Ski Jumping
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PUBLISHED BY THE
EASTERN SKI JUMPING & NORDIC COMBINED FOUNDATION, INC.
(A CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, ALL DONATIONS ARE DEDUCTIBLE AS ALLOWED BY LAW)
The material below is an archive of the oldest issues.
New Heights contents (teasers) are now listed on four pages:
[ 2005 forward ]
[ 2003-2004 ]
[ 2001-2002 ]
[ 1997-2000 ].
Fall 2000
SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS
News and Results
As we get ready for winter it is time for a quick review of the busy summer
and fall jump season.
The annual Independence Day Jump got our Eastern jumpers going with a bang...
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Keep your head up, Kid!
Brian Welch started to gather spectator interest this fall when he started exploring new territory on the brand spanking new K120 Olympic Jump...
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Environmentally friendly Aliens
Coleraine, MN: In September, several junior skiers acquired new face masks from the ubiquitous merchant of the ski jumping world, Slav Kardas, and then proceeded to wear them for most of the 24 hour drive east from Coleraine...
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Stoney's Corner
by Larry Stone, Eastern/NYSEF coach
Summer training is done and now it's time to get ready for another winter season. This summer was a good one for the East. This fall we made it to both Coleraine, MN and to the new Park City jumps...
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Between
the
Colors
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by Dan "Mouse" Warner
At the Fall Eastern Jump Committee Meeting held in Lake Placid during the Flaming Leaves Weekend there was good news and not so good news...
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HOPPER HIGHLIGHTS
Hi Nordic Kids! We have a great schedule for you this winter at hills all over the east. The Nordic Kids Festival in Salisbury...
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Road Trip Review
by Willy Graves, JII/NC, BOC
This September after a summer of jumping in Lake Placid I traveled with nine other members of the Eastern team to Coleraine...
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NEWS and NOTES
- Get well wishes to Earl Farnham...
- AOC is selling Raffle Calendars...
- A new K-65 coming???
- A new pony lift at Proctor....
- New Adidas Boots For Sale...
- LOC: new President, new stairs...
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And what about those
GOLF BALLS?
The 2000 Great Golf Ball Roll held at the Flaming Leaves Competition was a great success! Over $3,000 was raised for Eastern Jumping and NYSEF...
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Chevy Truck Junior Olympic Games
We are all looking forward to having the Chevy Truck Ski Jumping/Nordic Combined Junior Olympics in Lake Placid this winter...
Volunteers are greatly needed!
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"Aude Volare" -- Dare to Fly!
Spring 2000
2000 Junior Olympics
J2 Team Strikes Gold...
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2000 National Titles to
Doran, Lodwick, Jones & Van
On March 21, ten Eastern Jumpers and Combiners headed to Steamboat Springs for the National Championships... [ CONTINUED ]
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Glorious Weekend in Salisbury
By Don West
What a weekend it was! All the kids were jumping and having fun,
little kids, just established on 50 meter hills were pushing the
envelope on a "big hill", the 65 meter Satre hill, and big kids, the
NYSEF gunslingers, were enjoying ...
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Stoney's Corner
by Larry Stone, Eastern/NYSEF coach
Here we go again! Spring is here with a little down time and season assessment. This was a great winter in most respects...
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Between
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Colors
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by Dan "Mouse" Warner
Lake Placid Goodwill Games 2000... thousands of dollars on the line...he's on the bar... the light turns green... he's off...
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HOPPER HAPPENINGS
The Youth Ski League (YSL)/Nordic Kids, formerly the Bill Koch League (BKL), unfortunately fell through the cracks this past winter...
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Womens Ski Jumping
FIS TOURNEE...and
HOLMENKOLLEN!
Women's Ski Jumping continued its growth this season and saw major competitions internationally and nationally...[ CONTINUED ]
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NEWS and NOTES
- Geoff Howe of GNA, Gilford, New Hampshire and NYSEF...
- Reverend Lawrence M. Stone died April 22 at the age of 87...
- Bob Rollins, jumping judge, received the McCrillis award...
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Sport as a Witness to History
by Don West
About a decade ago, while we all played in the snow, dynasties dissolved, turf wars were fought and nations split while other divided nations reunited...
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"Aude Volare" -- Dare to Fly!
Fall 1999
Aubuchon Flaming leaves '99
Doran Wins!
International Women Shine
Brendan Doran put together two good rides of 91 and 89
meters on Saturday to win his second Lake Placid Summer meet of 1999.
Although Alan Alborn and Rhys Hecox each had one jump ...
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Eastern Elite Team Named
Jumping and Combined
Men and Women
For the first time since 1996 an Eastern Elite Team has been named in Nordic
Combined and Ski Jumping. And for the very first time it includes a Women's Team.
Eight Men and Two Women have been named....
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SO! GIRLS CAN'T FLY? DON'T TELL LIZ!
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Stoney's Corner
by Larry Stone, Eastern/NYSEF coach
It's almost that time again. The snow is starting to fly and with some luck
and cold weather, ski jumps around the East will be up and running soon
for another winter. It was a great summer. Several skiers made good progress ...
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Larry's Updated
Eastern Schedule.
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Skiers travel to Coleraine, MN
October 18th a squad of Eastern Jumpers left for a week of
training in Coleraine, Minnesota, on their recently completed
K-70 meter hill. Jumpers Geoff Howe, Jamie Tuttle, Chris
Baker, Brian Welch and Ryan Cutter ...
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Between the Colors...
by Dan "Mouse" Warner
After being in the ski jumping world for 34 years as a skier,
judge, organizer and coach, I have never seen a winter kick
everyone in the teeth as much as the Winter 1999...
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Jay Rand, Sr.
of Lake Placid Died October 17, 1999 ...
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Sig Evensen
Update
Times continue to be difficult for our friend Sig Evensen. He has been battling cancer for a couple
of years and thought that perhaps he had won, but just as the cancer in his spine seems to be under
control, doctors have found something in his brain which may be another tumor! They plan to begin
therapy soon.
Sig and his wife Birgit have sold their home in New City, NY
(near Bear Mountain) and are presently in residence in Norway,
where they have owned a home for a number of years...
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Earle Murphy Marries
Earle Murphy
was married
Thursday,
October 7,
in his home
in Lake Placid.
Earle met his
bride, Nadja,
when he travelled
to Lysva and Perm in the Urals of Russia ....
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"Aude Volare" -- Dare to Fly!
Spring 1999
East Takes 13 Medals
at 1999 Junior Olympics
by Larry Stone
On Sunday March 7th the Eastern J.O. Team left the Manchester, New Hampshire, airport
en route to
Anchorage, Alaska, for the 1999 Junior Olympics. The Eastern Team consisted of 16 athletes
who were...
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Sad news from Lebanon
"...I want to make sure that [you] know of the passing of a legend.
Ernie Dion of
Lebanon, NH passed on around the 25th of this month in Vero Beach, Fla.
where he and his lifetime wife and companion Blanch were spending the
winter with son Roger. Ernie will certainly be missed around ski jumps. His
smile was infectious, his love of children immense, his devotion to the
sport larger than anyone could imagine. A very quiet, silent, Viscome.
He'll be missed ... terribly."
(from Pete Langlois,March 30, 1999)
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National Champion
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Karla Keck World Champion
U.S. Women Shine in Europe
by Larry Stone
A group of five women ski jumpers left directly
after the U.S. National Championships in
Lake Placid with Coach Larry Stone,
heading to the first ever FIS Women's Tournee,
a series with four meets in Germany and culminating in a meet in
Ramsau, Austria at the Nordic World Championships. The team, consisting of four U.S.
women, Easterners Liz Szotyori, Lindsey Van, Molly Stone, Central's Veronica Myhra
and Canadian Marie-Pierre Morin ...
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STONEY'S CORNER
by Larry Stone
NYSEF/Eastern Jumping
Coach
Another winter has passed and it's time to plan for the summer. I have worked up a
tentative summer schedule and am proposing a new approach to this summer's training
which will be in the form of naming a development team including ages down to J-III...
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CONGRATULATIONS
to Easterners Carl VanLoan, Jed Hinkley and Bill Demong,
members of the Junior World Champion Nordic Combined Team!
THANK YOU to Nick Dyslin and
SWIX for their support this season. We appreciate your generosity!
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"Aude Volare" -- Dare to Fly!
Fall 1998
STONEY'S CORNER
by Larry Stone
NYSEF/Eastern Jumping
Coach
Fall '98: Summer season along with the 50th July 4th Competition
and Flaming Leaves has come and gone. A lot of stuff has happened!
John Farnham got Lebanon hopping and had regular plastic training
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LAKE PLACID K48 GETS A NEW MARBLE
TRACK
by Matt Bimonte
A voice from the K-120 said
"If you build it, they will come!"
"Build what?" you might ask. The answer proved to be a new K-48 inrun
system. And "they" proved to be...
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JOHN VISCOME
November 28, 1915 - July 16, 1998
On July 16th the ski jumping community awoke to find one of its
cornerstones had passed away with the news of John Viscome's death.
John had died in his sleep at 82 years of age...
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AURELE LEGERE
Maine Jumping Legend Passes On
As if it weren't enough to lose John Viscome this past July, this
summer we also saw the passing of another ski jumping icon, Aurele
Legere...
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Tim Tetreault flying high!
He's back for another season.
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FROM THE JUDGES STAND
by Art Tokle, Jr.
I know there are many of you jumpers and coaches out there who
feel you have been "gypped" on what you thought was a much better jump
than the scores actually showed.
The deductions taken away from a perfect, or near perfect jump of
"20" from each judge are mandated by the FIS ...
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"Aude Volare" -- Dare to Fly!
Spring 1998
50th Anniversary Summer Ski Jumping
Festival
Lake Placid Ski Jumps, July 4, 1998
Some of you out there may remember, and even may have jumped, in the
days when every Fourth of July, Lake Placid would open up the doors on
the ice house...
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Name the Mystery Jumper
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Back to 94...
Weber and Lodwick Win at Nationals
March 17 - 22, 1998: In a seeming revision to the Nationals on the
same Steamboat Hills four years ago, Randy Weber won the Normal Hill
Championships and Todd Lodwick jumped to victory on the K-112...
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Junior Olympics
Event moved to Ishpeming from Coleraine
The 1998 Junior Olympics slated for Coleraine, Minnesota, were
moved at the last possible minute to Ishpeming, Michigan's renowned
Suicide Bowl...
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Bill Demong in Nagano
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THE CHAIRMAN'S CORNER
Pete Mikkelson passes along this article by
Rick Anderson, chairman of the
1998 JO Organizing
Committee.
"Don't Hang Up Those Skis"
by Rick Anderson
PICTURE THIS.....
The 1998 Junior Olympics are coming up fast and a year's worth of hard work
and preparation are coming to a head for another group of ski jumpers who will
compete for the last time...
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The 100 Year Jump!
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"Aude Volare" -- Dare to Fly!
Fall 1997 -- The Lost articles
The November-December 1997 issue of New Heights ("the Mouthpiece of
Eastern Ski Jumping") was composed, printed, stapled, stamped and
delivered to the Post Office, where it fell into a black hole.
Here is some of the material from the missing issue.
A Tribute to Gerry Austin
by Dan "Mouse" Warner
He was a short, stout, rough around
the edges sort of guy...
There he stood in the old Judges Tower at Gunstock in February
1971. We were at the Gunstock Invitational...
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What is a Grasshopper?
by Marshall Ambrose, JIII
Lebanon Outing Club
It is a leaping insect with powerful hind legs adapted for jumping.
Maybe I should ask the question differently. "What is a Lake Placid
Grasshopper?" Answer: a kid with powerful hind legs adapted for
jumping...
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Stoney's Corner
by Larry Stone
NYSEF/Eastern Jumping Coach
It's been a while since our last issue and a busy summer season has
come and gone. We had a successful series of camps and Lake Placid
saw a lot of jumping. The two Grasshopper camps turned out well...
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The Road to Norge
by Ryan Cutter, JI, Hanover, NH
For me the trip began on a Wednesday Afternoon in good old Hanover,
NH. I hopped in the car and arrived in Lake Placid three hours later.
Jim Carter was already there preparing the van...
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