Most ski jumping records have been set in Europe… but that wasn’t always the case. Gary Entz tells us about Ironwood’s Curry Hill Ski Jump for this week's A Northwoods Moment in History . Ski jumping as a competitive sport has been going on since 1808. In that year, Olaf Rye set the first world’s ski jump record of 31 feet, in Eidsberg, Norway. Nordic ski jumping has been dominated by European countries, and most of the world’s records have been set in Europe. However, for a brief period in the