{"id":99024,"date":"2016-01-29T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=99024"},"modified":"2016-02-08T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:11:27","slug":"ski-jumps-and-shredding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/29\/ski-jumps-and-shredding\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of Mount David ski jumps, 1939 and 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Using different parts of Mount David to produce similar results are Pat Sheils ’19 (left, last week) of Portland, Maine, and the late Robert Ireland ’40 in 1939. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College; Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library.)<\/p><\/div>\n

The 1939 edition of Those Crazy College Kids is at right, as the late Robert Ireland ’40, a top collegiate skier of his era, takes flight from a campus ski jump, probably during Winter Carnival.<\/p>\n

At left is Pat Sheils ’19 of Portland, Maine, a member of the Shred Club and co-president of the Freestyle Skiing Club, showing his skills on Jan. 20 during Winter Carnival.<\/p>\n

For shredders of yore and of today, Mount David’s elevation still provides the necessary inrun, though the takeoff spot is different.<\/p>\n

Back then, the jump was between Cheney House and the President’s House (you can see Campus Avenue and the Quad in the background of the Ireland photo).<\/p>\n

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Mount David still provides the inrun for ski jumps, though the location of the takeoff has changed since 1939. (Google Earth image)<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week, meanwhile, the jump was set up few houses over, behind the 280 College Street residence, where Rand Field used to be.<\/p>\n

The 2016 action was all part of a ski-and-eat event, Skill ‘n’ Grill, sponsored by the Shred Club during Winter Carnival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For shredders of yore and of today, Mount David’s elevation still provides the necessary inrun for ski jumps, though the takeoff spot is different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":99030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11012],"tags":[6081,11046,9281],"class_list":["post-99024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-life","tag-mount-david","tag-shred-club","tag-winter-carnival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99024"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99057,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99024\/revisions\/99057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}