Finally back to posting some of my parents old photos. These are some photos of an indoor (mostly) ski jump event that took place November 3-4 1955 at the Seattle Ice Arena. My dad was a jumper but it looks like for this event he was manning the camera. I will share some pictures of the hill first and then some of the jumpers that took part in this event. Follow along as I share the pictures he took and recount some of the history, as I know it, of this event.

The Hill

With the window removed the in-run begins it descent into the arena. Just being up there on that scaffold would scare me quite a bit let alone skiing down it into the building.

A look down the in-run to the jump and the landing zone beyond. I hope you can excuse some of the blurry shots and out of frame subjects. I believe this was early on in my dad's photographic career and I'm not sure what kind of equipment he was using.

A view from the jump. Watch your head?

Building the landing zone.