Meet Olga Bolstad! When Seattle's Norwegian residents organized a ski jump competition near Stevens Pass in February 1917, Norwegian-immigrant Bolstad (24) showed up and asked to borrow some skis… Although an unknown when she arrived, she soon became the talk of the tourney—and later the town—when she swept the field at a midsummer contest held on Mt. Rainier. Bolstad even went toe-to-toe with male jumpers, a groundbreaking feat at the time in light of sexist attitudes in the sporting world for decades to come—women's ski jumping wouldn't even be permitted in the Olympic Games until 2014, almost a century after Bolstad's victory on Rainier. ⛷ Bolstad's bunad (a traditional Norwegian folk garment) now lives in the Museum's collection, and was most recently on display in our exhibition "Sublime Sights: Ski Jumping and Nordic America". 📷 Photo via the @seattletimes. Article: "Women who ran Seattle: Olga Bolstad ski jumped her way through the glass ceiling" by Gregory Scruggs. #wom...