Barrel Jumping

ID: 5761 ~ Creator: (Courtesy of the Wandermere Collection)
This file appears in: Ice Skating in the Little Spokane River Valley

Barrel jumping was the marquee event at the Winter Carnival at Wandermere on Christmas Day of 1931. This old sport provided laughs and thrills with Ben Dech and “Babe” Grimm soaring over a string of six barrels to tie for first in the feature event.

This file appears in: Ice Skating in the Little Spokane River Valley

By Ty A. Brown
Before Wandermere Golf Course was even in existence, the lake on the property was known for its winter pastime of ice skating. As far back as the late 1800s when Francis H. Cook owned the property and continuing through the ownership of Benjamin…