Deer stranded on top of 176 feet high ski jump killed as there was no safe way to remove it

A deer that was stranded on top of the Pine Mountain Ski Jump earlier this week had to be killed after Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) personnel determined that there was no safe way to remove it from the structure.



DNR Public Information Officer Debbie Munson Badini said that a DNR officer and biologist located the young deer on the platform at the top of the scaffold on Tuesday evening. "We have no idea how it got up there or how long it was there," she said.

According to Badini, the officer and biologist looked at all available options on how to remove the deer. They could not find a way to do it without endangering their own safety or the safety of the deer. Badini added that the deer was starving and "not in good shape physically."



After considering all of these factors, DNR personnel dispatched the deer on Wednesday. The Pine Mountain Ski Jump, which is located in Breitung Township near Iron Mountain, is one of the highest artificial ski jumps in the world. It is is 176 feet high, and 380 feet in length.