Ski Affair 2000-2012

• Steve Cook
• Clay Fox
• Lacey Heward
• Ted Ligety
• Julia Mancuso
• Monte Meier
• Nate Roberts
• Erik Schlopy
• Stephani Victor
  
  

Theirs are stories of courage and determination, of inspiration and dedication, of staring down adversity and winning. Their stories are of history-making proportions.

Enter the 2006 Ski Affair, brought to you by the Ski Archives of the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library and some 600 nostalgic-bent ski enthusiasts from throughout the Intermountain Area. The 2006 Ski Affair will honor nine of the region's elite ski/snowboard/mono-ski/sit-ski athletes and their recent history-making, medal-winning exploits on the World Cup circuit and at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2006. The festive gathering marks the 17th annual event whose proceeds are earmarked for locating, preserving, cataloguing and making available to the public important documents, photos, films/videos, oral histories, records, scrapbooks and files on skiing in the Intermountain Area.

• Edgar Stern

Edgar Stern's purchase of 7,000 acres of land in 1968 in Park City, Utah, including Treasure Mountain Resort (now Park City Mountain Resort), was the catalyst for the establishment of his dream resort: Deer Valley, which opened December 26, 1981. His extraordinary vision was to build a resort that offered visitors a quality experience rarely found anywhere in the industry. Mission accomplished! In 2002, Ski Magazine rated Deer Valley the “Number One” overall ski resort in North America. It perennially receives similar accolades from a grateful ski community, including worldwide exposure during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games when it was the venue for slalom, aerials and moguls competitions. Deer Valley also hosted FIS Freestyle World Cup competitors in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Edgar's influence and generosity reaches beyond Deer Valley and includes Ballet West, the National Ability Center, Salt Lake Art Center, Utah Special Olympics, Utah Open Lands, Kimball Art Center, Guadalupe Schools, People's Health Clinic and the Salt Lake Symphony.

• Pat Miller

Each year the Ski Archives honors an individual who demonstrates extraordinary efforts to help make the Ski Archives a success. This years recipient has shown tremendous volunteerism and excitement toward the Ski Archives and for that reason, this years recipient is well deserving of the Sue Raemer Memorial Award.

The archives can always use more support and encourages DONATIONS to help process collections from around the region as well as pursue other material. Thank you for your support and hope to see you this coming season.

2005 Ski Archives Historical Achievement Award

• Karen Budge - Wyoming-Alpine, Member of the U.S. Ski Team, FIS & Olympic Teams from 1967-1972
• Spence Eccles - Utah-Alpine, FIS World Championship Team - 1958 - competed in series of International Comp.
• Alan Engen - Utah-Alpine, NCAA All American, U.S. Ski Team - Military
• Jim Gaddis - Utah-Alpine, NCAA All-American & 3 time Snow Cup winner, Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame
• Pete Karns - Wyoming-Biathlon, 1960's World Biathlon Champ, US Biathlon Team, 1966 NCAA All American
• Karen Korfanta - Wyoming-Alpine, 1968 Olympic Team, 1966 FIS Team, World University Games
• Marv Melville - Utah-Alpine, 1956 & 1960 Olympic teams & FIS teams in between
• Mack Miller - Idaho-CC, 1956 & 1960 Olympic Teams
• Ray Miller - Utah-Alpine, Snow Cup winner, U.S.Ski Team & NCAA All American
• Dick Mitchell - Utah-Alpine, 1956 Olympic Team & NCAA Downhill Champion
• Dean Perkins - Utah-Alpine, FIS Team
• Bill Spencer - Utah-Biathlon, 1964 & 1968 Olympic team, Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame
• Ralph Wakely - Utah-Biathlon, 1968 U.S. Olympic Team

• Janet Quinney Lawson

• Safia Keller

Each year the Ski Archives honors an individual who demonstrates extraordinary efforts to help make the Ski Archives a success. This years recipient has shown tremendous volunteerism and excitement toward the Ski Archives and for that reason, this years recipient is well deserving of the Sue Raemer Memorial Award.

The archives can always use more support and encourages DONATIONS to help process collections from around the region as well as pursue other material. Thank you for your support and hope to see you this coming season.

• Maxine Bounous - Provo, UT
• Evelyn Engen - Salt Lake City, UT
• Dolores LaChapelle - Silverton, CO
• Virginia Huidekoper - Jackson, WY
• Jeanette Johnson - Sun Valley, ID
• Wilma Johnson - Salt Lake City, UT
• Gladys Miller - Ogden, UT
• Suzy Harris Rytting - Salt Lake City, UT
• Jean Saubert - Big Fork, MT
• Margo Walters, McDonald - Salt Lake City, UT

MAXINE BOUNOUS - Maxine Bounous is a ski instructor and powder skier extraordinaire - a lifelong adventure that began with her first lesson in 1945 at Timp Haven (now Sundance Resort) in Provo Canyon. A member of the Timpanogos Mountain Ski Club from 1946 to 1949, she first taught skiing in 1947 for Brigham Young University while a student there. From1952 to 1958 she was a full-time instructor in the Alf Engen Ski School at Alta, specializing in powder ski lessons. Maxine continued to be an exceptional ski mentor at Sugar Bowl CA, from 1958 to 1966. In 1967, she returned to Timp Haven to help her husband, Junior, establish the Junior Bounous Ski School where she created a fifth-grade learn-to-ski program for the Utah County schools, a precursor to the popular ski and snowboard program operated by the county today. In 1971, she became one of the first ski instructors at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort where she still graces the slopes with her effortless, flowing technique.

EVELYN ENGEN - Evelyn Engen married the late Alf Engen in 1937 and traveled extensively with him during their early married life. At Idaho's Sun Valley Ski Club, she served as office manager during the 1940s leading up to the 1948 Olympic Winter Games when Alf was the U.S. Olympic Team's coach. Evelyn served as Alf's private coach when he trained at Sun Valley on the Ruud Mountain Ski Jump. With Alf, she started and operated the Alf Engen Company, a manufacturer of sun tan cream, lotion, and a series of popular ski waxes from the mid 1940s through the 1960s. She was the business force behind the Alf Engen Ski School at Alta, Utah, from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. Evelyn gained a reputation for her meticulous attention to detail and for being a very astute business woman.

VIRGINIA HUIDEKOPER - Virginia Guernsey Huidekoper began skiing in the hills east of Salt Lake City in the mid-1930s. Graduating to the canyons and slopes of the Wasatch Range in the days before lift-served skiing, she made the requisite heart-pumping climb for each thrilling race. Virginia became a regular at Alta and Brighton, quickly developing skill as a competitive racer. She had a successful racing career competing in well-known races throughout the Intermountain region. Among her triumphs: first place in the prestigious Alta Cup two years in a row and third place the following year. In the 1940s, Virginia moved to Jackson Hole where she was one of the founders of the Jackson Hole Ski Club. She also was a principal in the founding, developing and ongoing success of the Snow King Ski Area at Jackson Hole. In addition to competing in races, she operated a local newspaper and created some the first brochures and advertisements for Snow King. She and her husband, Jim, also chaperoned, coached and sponsored many early junior racers from the Jackson Hole area.

JANNETTE JOHNSON - With parents who were members of the Seattle Mountaineers, Jannette Burr Johnson was introduced to the mountains, snow and skiing at a very young age. When she won the first race she entered at Snowqualmie Pass she was hooked. Soon she entered a four-way competition, taking third place and defeating many males in the competition. In 1953, Jannette won the Eccles Cup at Snowbasin and the Brighton Intermountain Giant Slalom and placed second in the Snow Cup. In 1950 and 1954, Jannette was a participant in FIS competition in Sweden and a member of the U. S. Olympic Team in 1952 that competed in Oslo, Norway. In 1954 FIS competition in Sweden, she won the bronze medal wearing "lucky" stretch pants she borrowed from storied ski competitor Buddy Werner. In 1955 she was awarded the Diamond Harriman Pin, an honor shared only with ski legend Gretchen Fraser. Throughout the 1950s, she was a regular competitor on the national and international ski circuits. Despite dozens of top finishes and 36 years as a ski instructor at Sun Valley, starring in "Lucy Goes to Sun Valley," a TV movie that featured Jannette as Lucille Ball's double was her most entertaining ski accomplishment.

WILMA JOHNSON - Wilma Johnson shared her husband Ted's dream of creating Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon from the time they were married in the early 1960s. By 1965, Ted had acquired the Blackjack and Snowbird mining claims thanks in large part to Wilma's behind-the-scenes researching skills. With a promotional film and a scale model of their proposed Snowbird Village in the back of their station wagon, the couple toured the country trying to raise money for a limited partnership they had planned to help finance the ski area of their dreams. The idea started to become a reality in 1968 when Wilma and Ted built the first model condominium unit at the 'Bird. Preparing reports and entertaining prospective partners and condo buyers was second nature for Wilma, the consummate Little Cottonwood Canyon ambassador. Those skills played a major role in the successful roll-out of The Lodge at Snowbird whose units were sold by the time Snowbird opened in 1971. Also committed to education, particularly for children who lived near Snowbird, Wilma helped establish the first alternative grade school at Snowbird.

DOLORES LACHAPELLE - Dolores LaChapelle is one of the West's most prolific ecological writers and renowned powder skiers. In the 1940s she began skiing on a pair of army surplus 7-foot long, hickory skis. From 1947 to 1950 she taught skiing in Aspen, Colorado and in 1950, made the first ski ascent of Mt. Columbia, the second highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. That same year she made the first ski ascent of Snowdome, the hydrographic apex of the continent. After she married Ed La Chapelle she moved to Alta, Utah where he was on the Forest Service's avalanche and snow research team. In 1956, Dolores made the first known ski run down Alta's Baldy Chute with Jim Shane. She was also the first woman to ski down Hasty Exit on the backside of Alta. Dolores is featured in two films, "The Greatest Snow on Earth: Utah's Skiing Story," filmed by Shawn Emery, and "Spirit of Snow," filmed by Dave O'Leske. Known today as one of the country's leading ecologists, she has written several books, including Sacred Land Sacred Sex, Rapture of the Deep: Concerning Deep Ecology and Celebrating Life; Deep Powder Snow: 40 Years of Ecstatic Skiing, Avalanches and Earth Wisdom; and Earth Festivals: Seasonal Celebrations for Everyone Young and Old.

MARGO WALTERS MCDONALD - Margo Walters-McDonald began skiing at Bear Gulch, Idaho in 1951. She was a member of the Junior National Ski team representing the Intermountain Division in 1957 and took first place each year in the Salt Lake Tribune Classic and Intermountain Junior Championships from 1958 to 1960. In 1961 she won first place in the Sun Valley Open, the Snow Cup, and the Intermountain Championships. A year later, Margo raced in Europe and earned the number one seed in the downhill. In 1963 she was a prominent figure in the major cup races. She finished first in the Snow Cup giant slalom, second in the Roche Cup downhill and slalom and third in the Harriman Cup downhill. In 1964 she was named to the U.S. Olympic Ski Team that competed in Innsbruck, Austria. That same year she became a member of the U. S. National Team. Margo was executive director of the Intermountain Ski Association from 1967 to1970.

GLADYS MILLER - For nearly 40 years, the names Earl and Gladys Miller were almost synonymous with Snowbasin, ski teaching and racing in Northern Utah. In 1950 Earl and Gladys took ownership of the Snowbasin Ski School and Gladys began 35 years of dedication to the enterprise, working on chores that ranged from office and administrative work to food service. She was a welcome fixture in the rustic Snowbasin A-frame, graciously greeting all who came to the ski school. Earl and Gladys were a team, operating one of the successful ski programs in the state that included the Ogden City Recreation Ski School, co-sponsored by the Ogden Standard Examiner, and the Utah Racing School, one of the earliest and most successful racing programs in the West. Gladys also served as a race official and organizer of Intermountain junior ski racing. She and Earl also raised three sons Alan, Dale, and Ray, who became successful ski racers.

SUZY HARRIS RYTTING - Suzy Harris Rytting cut an incredible swath in the regional and national competitive ski scenes in the 1940s. That swath started on a pair of borrowed boots and a last-place finish in her first major race. It reached its zenith when she was named a member of the U.S. Olympic Ski Team in 1952 that was to compete in Oslo, Norway. When it was discovered she was pregnant, a fact she was not aware of, Olympic officials would not allow her to compete and summarily sent her back to the United States. Her skiing triumphs during the late 1940s established her as one of the finest female skiers in the country: The Snow Cup, Knudsen Cup and Glacier (Mt. Timpanogos) races in 1947; the Harriman Cup and National Championships-combined in 1948; the Rustler Cup, Snow Cup, Western Interstate Championships, Millicent Cup, Intermountain Ski Assn. (ISA) Championships and Timpanogos Glacier Race in 1949. From 1947 through 1952 she was National Medalist eight times. In 1948 she won the Women's National Combined Championships and in 1951 was national Giant Slalom Champion. She won the Mary Cornelia National Collegiate Trophy in 1947, was named an alternate on the 1948 U.S. Olympic Alpine Team and was a member of the 1950's U.S. Women's FIS World Cup Team, which was recognized as the first USA Ski Team. Suzy was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1988 and in 1999 was named one of Utah's 50 Greatest Athletes of the Century by The Salt Lake Tribune. She was inducted into the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame in September, 2004.

JEAN SAUBERT- Jean Saubert is a champion on and off the ski slopes. On the competitive front, she is a two-time Junior National winner and successfully competed in the rarified ranks of World Championships and FIS events. In 1963, she won the Harriman Cup and Snow Cup and donned the bronze and silver medals in the slalom and giant slalom, respectively, in the 1964 Olympic Winter Games. Her accomplishments are equally impressive on the public service front. With degrees from Oregon State University and Brigham Young University, Jean taught elementary school for 32 years. She also is active in ski-related fund-raising programs and has been a Literacy Volunteer. Jean coached junior racers, mentored ski teams at BYU, Sundance Resort and at Snowbird, and competed in Over-30 soccer for 22 years. It is no surprise that Jean Saubert is a member of the National Ski Hall of Fame.

• Suzy Harris Rytting

Ms. Rytting was a dominant ski competitor in the late 1940s and early 1950s and is a member of the National and Intermountain Ski Halls of Fame as well as the Utah Sports Hall of Fame.

• Jim Sullivan

Each year the Ski Archives honors an individual who demonstrates extraordinary efforts to help make the Ski Archives a success. This years recipient has shown tremendous volunteerism and excitement toward the Ski Archives and for that reason, this years recipient is well deserving of the Sue Raemer Memorial Award.

The archives can always use more support and encourages DONATIONS to help process collections from around the region as well as pursue other material. Thank you for your support and hope to see you this coming season.

2003 Ski Archives Historical Achievement Award

If ski instruction pioneers such as Alf, Sverre and Corey Engen, Bill Lash, Junior Bounous, Earl Miller and K. Smith set the tone for ski instruction in the region, the lyrics were written by Woody Anderson, Bill Butterfield, Bill Briggs, Norm Burton, Mel Fletcher, Keith Lange, Lou Lorenz, Gene Palmer, Clark Parkinson and Dean Roberts. If the previous were the founders of instruction, the latter are their disciples - spreading the word about the glories of skiing through their teachings.

You can call them the Second Generation of ski instructors in the Intermountain West - Gen. II or Version 2.0, in the vernacular. They taught with great gusto and gumption, as witnessed by the quantum leap the world of snow sport has taken during their tenure as guardians of the flock: Over the past 50 years skiing has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry that transcends recreation, health, the environment and economic development for millions of residents in the region.

For most history makers, the high-profile contributions are in ski instruction. But the more significant mark they've etched into the annals of skiing history rests in the innumerable hours - nay, years - they have contributed as leaders in the less glamorous side - administration, organization and standardization of the ski industry..

Their too-brief bios below offer a thumbnail peek into their countless contributions and accomplishments in the area of ski instruction - and beyond.

WOODY ANDERSON - (a.k.a. Alexander Woodruff Anderson), Albion, ID, 1954-1963; lifetime member, Professional Ski Instructors of America/Intermountain; member, National Ski Areas Assn. One of the founders of the Intermountain Ski Instructors Assn., 1952, its secretary in 1952-53 and its president in 1961-63; assistant ski school director, Brighton Ski Resort, Instructor, Deseret News Ski School, 1947-50; national certification chairman, PSIA, 1962-64; general manager, Park City Resort, 1965-71; president, Utah Ski Assn., 1968-71; president/director, Park City Ski School, 1964-71; liaison chairman of PSIA with the National Ski Areas Operators, 1966-1970; chairman, Idaho Travel Council; Intermountain Ski Areas Assn., vice resident 1974-77; currently president/owner of Anderwood Inc./Pomerelle Ski Resort, Albion, ID

BILL BRIGGS - Late this year, Bill will cap an illustrious ski career in grand style: by producing a CD of himself performing traditional ski songs and alpine yodels. He has showcased his musical talents through most of his 64 years of skiing, 51 as a ski instructor, 48 of them certified and 40 of them as ski school director (Sugarloaf, ME, Suicide Six, VT, and Snow King, WY.) The ski area manager at Snow King in 1980, he has served as an Exum Mountain Guide at Grand Teton National Park for 22 years. Among his other exploits: serving as technical contributor to Willi Schaeffler's ski series in Sports Illustrated in the 1950; to Georges Joubert's book "Ski Wedeln" in 1958; Mort Lund's book "The Skiers' Bible" in the 1960s and numerous articles for "Ski Magazine." He made the first descents on skis of the Middle Teton and South Teton in 1967, Mt. Moran in 1968, Grand Teton in 1971 and Mt. Owen in 1974. All that despite the fact that the native of Augusta, Maine, was born with a congenital hip dislocation.

NORM BURTON - At age five, Norm's father made him a pair of skis for Christmas and his sister bought him a ski lesson from Corey Engen at Snow Basin where there was only a rope tow on City Hill. He was smitten with skiing for life, as in: teaching for Earl Miller at Snow Basin in1968; joining ISIA in 1972; becoming fully certified in 1974; presiding over the Intermountain Ski Instructors Association in 1979 and board directors of PSIA and officiating as vice president of operations and its president in 1982. In 1981, Norm became affiliated with the new Deer Valley Resort as instructor and supervisor, posts he held until 1989 when he became ski school director at Snow Basin. He returned to the Deer Valley Resort in 1997. On March 13, 2002, Norm experienced a serious skiing accident and is recovering in a rehabilitation center.

BILL BUTTERFIELD - A native of Manchester, Vermont, Bill skied as a youngster and later taught skiing at nearby Big Bromley and Snow Valley. In the summer he earned skiing money by being a caddy at the city's two golf courses. His early mentors, Fred Islin and Woody Meyer at Snow Valley, encouraged him to teach the sport so he certified as an instructor with the Eastern Ski Instructors Association at age 16. At the time, he was the youngest certified ski teacher on the Eastern Seaboard. After a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy, he returned to Manchester where he met Otto Lange, the Sun Valley, Idaho, ski school Director, who offered him a contract to teach at the storied resort, which he did in 1948. He served as assistant director there for 38 years meeting, teaching and socializing with Sun Valley's famous clientele. Throughout his career his guiding philosophy has been: "Guest services is the most important element in serving the skiing public."

MEL FLETCHER - Ask anybody who knows anything about Utah ski history and the name Mel Fletcher will be recognized as one who has "been there" and "done that". Born in 1918, the lifelong resident of Park City has not only had a front row seat for everything that happened to skiing in Park City during the 20th century, he has helped make it happen. Mel took to skiing in the late 1920s after watching Park City miners ski jumping on Creole Hill. It wasn't long before Mel joined the fun and eventually became an accomplished jumper competing at Creole Hill, Rasmussen's Ranch, and world renowned Ecker Hill. Mel and friends used to tour on skis from Park City to Brighton. In the 40s when friends Otto Carpenter and Bob Burns started Snow Park, Mel founded and served as president of the Snow Park Ski Club. He became a certified instructor in the early 50s, founded and served as the director of the Snow Park Ski School from 1952 - 1964. Mel conducted group lessons for Park City's children as part of a city recreation program and served as director of the Park City Ski Patrol from 1965 -1972. Mel has competed in ski races well into his senior years and has made significant contributions to the preservation of Utah ski history. In 1986, Mel worked hard to secure a spot on the Utah Historical Register for Ecker Hill, the site of world-record ski jumps.

KEITH LANGE - 50 years and counting...that's what Keith is doing with his tenure as an active instructor at Alta. But that's just a fraction of his contributions to skiing. He held 13 leadership positions for the Intermountain Ski Instructors Assn. (ISIA), including president; and 10 positions for the Professional Ski Instructors Association Intermountain, including president. He is trained in ski patrol and avalanche control and has also been a race coach and movie star in productions by such notables as Sverre Engen, Warren Miller and John Jay. As a member of the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division, he trained all levels of military personnel on high mountain survival techniques (summer and winter). He was a member of the President's Council on Fitness and bestowed upon President Ford an Honorary Ski Instructor status. On the competitive scene, he won first in the Pro Division of the First National Gelande Championship that he help establish at Alta. He has competed on jumps at Ecker Hill; was a competitor and course-setter for the Snow Cup; and raced in Alpine, Nordic, and cross-country events. For 37 years he directed the children's ski program at Salt Lake City's Cottonwood Country Club, and coached the U.S. demonstration team that competed in the first Interski held behind the Iron Curtain. Keith is a charter member of the Ski Archives Board.

LOU LORENZ - Lou has been active in the organization and administration of professional ski instruction for more than 50 years. He served on the Intermountain Ski Instructors Association (ISIA) board for 17 years, was its president for three, a member of its certification committee for 10 and was its chairman for three. He started skiing in 1946 and began teaching for the Deseret News Ski School in 1950. He obtained his ISIA certification in 1956, after beginning his professional teaching career at Alta three years prior. While teaching at Alta for 10 years, was also the director of the ski school at Little Mountain. Later he co-founded the Greater Salt Lake Ski School that contracted ski teaching at Solitude and Gorgoza. In 1971, he was named a lifetime member of the PSIA. In 1996, he became the seventh inductee into the PSIA-I Hall of Fame. Lou is a charter member of the Ski Archives Board.

GENE PALMER - In the 1960s when the Teton Valley community dreamed of having a world-class ski resort, Gene was a driving force in helping to facilitate that dream. He served on the first board of Directors for Grand Targhee Resort and only resigned in 1969 to become the director of skiing and the ski school in 1969. When Big Valley Corporation purchased the resort in 1975, Gene was asked by the new owners to remain as the director. He held that position until his semi-retirement in 1995. This winter, Gene begins his 36th season as a ski teacher, educator and role model at Grand Targhee. He is infamous for driving the 100 mile plus round-trip drive from his farm in Rexburg, Idaho, to Alta,Wyoming, each day since 1969. It is obviously his love of skiing that motivates him to do so. Gene has been a member of PSIA since 1961 and has held posts as divisional president, divisional education vice president, divisional co-education vice president, national board member and as a PSIA examiner for 20 years. Gene's contributions to the ski industry are legendary and his abilities as mentor, educator and cheerleader for all aspiring snow sport teachers are truly inspiring.

CLARK PARKINSON - With the title of "Instructor Emeritus," Clark is the longest tenured employee at Park City Mountain Resort. And that's no surprise considering that he began teaching in 1962 when the resort opened. Clark obtained his ISIA certification in 1966 and immediately became involved in the organization and administration of the Intermountain Division. He subsequently became secretary, board member and, in 1970, president. He was named a Lifetime Member of PSIA in 1979, a member of the PSIA Past Presidents' Advisory Committee and Chairman of its Hall of Fame Committee. He is a charter member of the J. Willard Marriott Library Ski Archives Advisory Board, past finance chair, chair and past chair. He was one of the first staff volunteers for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, signing on in 1998 when he assisted SLOC's volunteer recruitment and selection process. During the Games his volunteer duties found him at the Olympic Village in the National Olympic Service Center.

DEAN ROBERTS - His introduction to a magnificent skiing career simply by jumping into it. Early on Dean skied at Lead Draw, near Pocatello, Idaho where a rope tow led to a 40-meter jump. While in grade school, he and his pals took their skis to school so they could "fly" off of the 12-15 ski jumps they would build between their homes and school. In 1944, while an eighth grader, his family moved to Ogden where he headed for Snow Basin. His first day on those ski slopes startled him, "Everyone was turning on their skis and that was the objective," he recalls. Not only could he not turn his skis, but he had never been exposed to skiing where turning was necessary. Once he learned that skill, his skiing talents skyrocketed: Weber College and University of Utah Ski Teams; ski instructor at Snow Basin 1957-60; at Brighton in 1960-63; and at Solitude Mountain Resort, where he was co-director of the Mt. Empire Ski School. He directed the Solitude Ski School from 1969-94. He's a lifetime member of PSIA and PSIAI and among the first 100 to join the PSIA. He currently is director of skiing at Solitude.

• Zane Doyle

On February 17, 1916, Zane A. Doyle was born to Michael and Zepher Smith Doyle in Ogden, Utah. The family moved to Salt Lake City, were Zane attended Columbus Elementary, Irving Junior High and then Granite High School. In 1937, he married Thelma Jensen. Two years later he began skiing with friends in Lambs Canyon.

In 1943, Zane convinced Thelma to let him purchase a T-bar from Kay Smith. This was quite a change of occupation from butcher at Hill Field to T-bar operator on weekends throughout World War II. The early years at Brighton were a struggle, Zane worked nights at Hill Field and days at Brighton. The road up Big Cottonwood Canyon was plowed only as far as the Brighton store. When the United States Special Forces began to train in the area, they plowed the road all the way to the T-bar. The cost to ski? Ten cents per ride.

Zane began adding and changing things at Brighton in 1947. He extended the T-bar to the top of the current Majestic Lift and built a second T-bar to the top of the second face of Majestic in 1948 which increased uphill capacity to 750 people per hour.

The Intermountain West had its first double chair lift thanks to Zane Doyle when he built the Majestic chair in 1948. He then built a roller and began to pack the slopes. Zane added a second double chair in 1958, the Mary Chairlift. In 1963, the purchase of Brighton Recreation gave him a single chair left running up Mt. Millicent. In 1968, Evergreen was added and in 1974 the Millicent single chair was replaced and extended with a double chair. 1959 brought night skiing to Brighton and three years later the Majestic lift was rebuilt. In 1984 he oversaw the completion of Snake Creek triple chair.

Zane retired as head of Brighton Ski Bowl in1984 when Brighton Resort was purchased by Boyle USA Resorts. Zane's stubbornness gave Brighton Ski Resort to the Intermountain Region. His vision and his love of skiing has endured at the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon. While outwardly gruff, he takes people to his heart and treats them as family. This welcoming family feeling remains at Brighton Resort. Not one to seek glory for all of his achievements, Zane is reluctant to list his ski accolades. The best way to appreciate Zane Doyle's work is to go up to Brighton and look at his legacy.

• Mike Korologos

Each year the Ski Archives honors an individual who demonstrates extraordinary efforts to help make the Ski Archives a success. This years recipient has shown tremendous volunteerism and excitement toward the Ski Archives and for that reason, this years recipient is well deserving of the Sue Raemer Memorial Award.

The archives can always use more support and encourages DONATIONS to help process collections from around the region as well as pursue other material. Thank you for your support and hope to see you this coming season.

• Shannon Bahrke
• Eric Bergoust
• Ricky Bower
• Steve Cook
• Muffy Davis
• Clay Fox
• Lacey Heward
• Joe Pack
• Jacob Rife
• Nikki Stone
• Sandra Van Ert
• Chris Waddell

• Corey Engen

• David Amidon

Each year the Ski Archives honors an individual who demonstrates extraordinary efforts to help make the Ski Archives a success. This years recipient has shown tremendous volunteerism and excitement toward the Ski Archives and for that reason, this years recipient is well deserving of the Sue Raemer Memorial Award.

The archives can always use more support and encourages DONATIONS to help process collections from around the region as well as pursue other material. Thank you for your support and hope to see you this coming season.

• Scott Brooksbank
• John Clendenin
• Ed Ferguson
• Karen Huntoon
• Bob Salerno
• Alan Schonberger
• Mark Stiegemeier
• Penelope Street
• Bob Theobald

There is a history of getting air in Utah that will play a part in this year's Olympic magic.

- Ski Jumping at Ecker Hill
- Stein Eriksen, has been recognized as the father of freestyle skiing for performing some of the earliest somersaults on skis
- The "Most Spectacular" division of the Alta Gelande Contest in 1968 was one of the first competitions to feature upright and inverted aerial acrobatics
- The Alta Gelande Contest can also take credit for the first attempt, in competition, of a full-twisting somersault
- The first USSA-Intermountain sanctioned amateur freestyle competition was held in 1973. The same year a Utahan landed the first front mobius (full-twisting) flip in competition

It is recognized that the first major freestyle (Exhibition) skiing competition was held in 1971 at Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. Back then, competitors skied moguls and performed inverted aerials and acro-tricks all in the same run. Now, after several movements and incarnations, freestyle is an Olympic event. This winter, at Deer Valley Resort, 2002 Olympians will compete for medals in two separate disciplines, Aerials and Moguls.

Over this 30-year period, and even before 1971, many Intermountain skiers were responsible for important aspects and "firsts" relating to the evolution of freestyle. On October 23, 2001, the Utah Ski Archives will honor the Intermountain West's freestyle champions.

Utah Ski Archives 2001 Freestyle Award Criteria
The Utah Ski Archives will recognize pioneers and history makers who contributed to the evolution of Freestyle skiing, which is now an Olympic sport.

- Individuals competing prior to and including the 1974-75 winter season, in the sport of Freestyle Skiing, and are still living
- Whose primary residence was in the Intermountain Area (Utah, Idaho, Wyoming or Montana) during this same time frame
- Who won in individual or combined categories in major professional events promoted regionally or nationally, with significant awards

• Stein Eriksen

Stein Eriksen has been synonymous with style and grace since his gold (giant slalom) and silver medal (slalom) victories in his native Oslo during the 1952 Olympic Winter Games. He also won three gold medals at the World Championships in Aare, Sweden, in 1954 in slalom, giant slalom and combined, making him the first alpine skier in the world to win triple gold at a world championship.

Today the Director of Skiing at Utah's Deer Valley Resort, Eriksen was involved in the development of the Park City Ski Area (now Park City Mountain Resort), which was formerly owned by Edgar Stern, who later built Deer Valley. Prior to arriving on the Park City scene, Eriksen spent four years as director of skiing and ski school director at Snowmass, CO, and four years as ski school director of Sugarbush, VT. He also served as ski school director and owned a sport shop in Aspen, CO. From 1956 to 1958 he was ski school director for Heavenly Valley, CA, having served previously in the same position at Boyne Mountain, MI, from 1954 to 1956.

As a guest instructor at Sun Valley in the 1950s, Stein became the darling of the news media and the resort's star-studded celebrity guest list with his unusual reverse shoulder ski technique. His status was enhanced by his spectacular forward somersault with full layout (swan dive) on skis. That aerial maneuver is believed to be the forerunner of the inverted aerials performed by acrobatic freestyle skiers today.

In 1997, Stein was awarded the Knight First Class honor by His Majesty the King of Norway in recognition of his outstanding services in the interest of Norway. He also received the Pioneer Award from the Intermountain Ski Areas Association in 1998. Stein divides his time between Park City and a home in Montana. His family includes wife, Françoise, sons Bjorn and Stein Jr., daughters Julianne and Ava and four grandchildren.

• Clark Parkinson

Each year the Ski Archives honors an individual who demonstrates extraordinary efforts to help make the Ski Archives a success. This years recipient has shown tremendous volunteerism and excitement toward the Ski Archives and for that reason, this years recipient is well deserving of the Sue Raemer Memorial Award.

The archives can always use more support and encourages DONATIONS to help process collections from around the region as well as pursue other material. Thank you for your support and hope to see you this coming season.

• Spence Eccles

"I'm an Ogden boy," says Spence Eccles. "I'm committed to sports and skiing in this state." His credentials clearly show he not only talks the talk, he has walked the walk. And he's still at it.

For more than five decades, starting in 1943 when he learned to ski at Snowbasin Ski Area under the tutelage of Corey Engen, the Salt Lake City banking mogul and philanthropist extraordinaire has carved an endelible ski swath that reaches from waxing rooms to corporate boardrooms - and beyond.

The number of times his name appears on ski trophies is rivaled only by the number of times his name appears on contributions (financial and otherwise) that he has given to the sport. His ski racing highlights include:

• Junior Racer 1946-1952
• Three years on Ogden High Skit Team that won Knudsen Cup State Championship twice
• Three-way (downhill, slalom and jumping) competitor for the Utah State American Legion co-ed team
• 4 year letter winner for the University of Utah Ski Team, serving as captain his senior year
• Named Collegiate Skiing All-American
• Raced American-International circuit, 1953-1959
• Named first alternate to American F.I.S. team for 1958 World Championships
• Won silver medal in U.S. National Slalom and Alpine Combined
• Won bronze medal in Canadian National Slalom
• Competed in Harrman Cup, Snow Cup, Eccles Cup
• Competed in international seniors circuit
• Competed in Masters circuit
• 1991 inductee to Crimson Club Hall of Fame
• 1997 inductee to Utah Old-Time Athletes Hall of Fame

Foremost among the beneficiaries of his generosity, time, talent and fund-raising prowess is the Univerity of Utah, his alma mater. While an "Ogden boy," he also is an unabashed "Utah Man, Sir," as witnessed by the numerous contributions he, his family, Eccles-related foundations and First Security Bank (he is chairman and chief executive officer) have made to that institution.

• Larry Warren

Each year the Ski Archives honors an individual who demonstrates extraordinary efforts to help make the Ski Archives a success. This years recipient has shown tremendous volunteerism and excitement toward the Ski Archives and for that reason, this years recipient is well deserving of the Sue Raemer Memorial Award.

2000 Ski Archives Historical Achievement Award

• USDA Forest Service

Who would have imagined that when the U.S. Forest Service was created in 1905 that it would become so involved in our favorite pastime? The Forest Service was created to manage our nation's forests reserves under a multiple use mission that included timber, water, grazing, wildlife and recreation. Although recreation was included in the mission statement, few could have foreseen the significance of that mission to the future of winter recreation and skiing. It wasn't until the 1930's that Forest Service employees began having visions of recreationists gliding through fields of fluffy powder with big smiles on their faces. But the U.S. Forest Service has helped develop and sustain an industry that has provided hours of recreation to individual citizens and has brought millions of dollars to intermountain states and communities.

Fortunately, Forest Service officials took to heart their charge to promote recreation, especially winter recreation, on the Forests of Utah and the Intermountain Region. Forest Service officials have served as advisors, consultants, and promoters, and from early on, worked to bring the Winter Olympic Game to Utah.

In many areas, the Forest Service saw opportunity for economic growth through wise use of the forest resource. The Forest Service supported and encouraged the growing interest in the sport and the development of the embryonic ski industry. In the early days of ski area development, the local District Ranger might have been a relatively common sight at a ski hill, helping out with a variety of on-hill tasks.

Because the Forest Service worked hard to promote the sport, they also obligated themselves to promote its safety. They were involved in the formation of early ski patrols. One of their greatest contributions however, was taking the lead in avalanche research. As long as there have been mountains and snow falling on them, man has had to deal with avalanches. However, it was not until the development of uphill transportation that brought masses of winter recreationists to the slopes, that dealing with avalanches became of critical concern.

Through the years there have been countless Forest Service directors, managers, supervisors, district rangers, forest rangers, and various forest service employees who have spent many hours promoting skiing protecting skiers, and protecting and managing our National Forests for our use and enjoyment. Currently, in preparation for hosting the world for the 2002 Winter Olympics, developments at Snowbasin are nearing completion under the cooperative and watchful stewardship of the U.S. Forest Service.

The archives can always use more support and encourages DONATIONS to help process collections from around the region as well as pursue other material. Thank you for your support and hope to see you this coming season.