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u.s. ski and snowboard Hall of Fame Board of Directors tom Anderson, Local Committee Chair, Marquette, MI Andy Bigford, Boulder, CO michael Bisner, Manchester, MA David Brule Jr., Iron Mountain, MI raelene Davis, Salt Lake City, UT mark Dorsey, Lakewood, CO Brian Fairbank, Hancock, MA peter graves, Thetford, VT David holli, Ishpeming, MI David Ingemie, McLean, VA william Irwin, Rochester, VT

tom Kelly, Chairman, Park City, UT steve Kircher, Boyne Falls, MI sepp Kober, Charlottesville, VA rudy maki, Iron Mountain, MI Bob orbacz, McLean, VA shawn owens, Stowe, VT Bill Quigley, Laconia, NH David scott, Boulder, CO Frida waara, Marquette, MI Bernie weichsel, Waltham, MA trace worthington, Park City, UT

Staff tom west, President/CEO Bob hendrickson, Retail/Guest Services/Website Jeri Ahola, Registrar

stacey wooley, Development Director Ann schroeder, Administrator Doug windsand, Custodian

Host Committee Carol Baily, Candice Bannister, Moose Barrows, Thomas Bogel, Peter Daley, Winnie Delliquadri, Christine Donovan, Tarsha Ebbern, Michelle English, Sara Floyd, Hans and Roberta Geier, Connie Greene, Nate Johansing, Kim Kerr, Billy Kidd, Jenny Lay, Rick Moulton, Simone Olive, Scott Parker, Randi Pattison, Carolyn Peters, Joel Reichenberger, Karen Schnieder, Karen Travis, Bernie Weichsel, Larry Young.

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Class of 2014 inductees Curt Chase Joe Cushing Chris Davenport Kristina Koznick John McMurtry Ralph Miller Ross Powers Erik Schlopy Robert Smith Jeannie Thoren

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Hall of Fame Honored members

A list of the greats whose names are on the Honor Roll of the Hall of Fame

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The History of 100 years at Howelsen Hill

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The ishpeming international Film Festival and Jerry Awards

— local productions showing during the festival Buddy werner: i never look back

By Joe and John Dee – 1997 (32 minutes) Featuring testimonials from Gordie Wren, Billy Kidd, Moose Burrows and other key figures, this film explores the life of Buddy Werner as it shows off the history of skiing in Steamboat with vintage film clips. It also offers a great look at Buddy’s Racing career from the 1950s up through the 1964 Olympics.

History of skiing in steamboat Tread of Pioneers Museum (9 minutes) Introduced by Helen Hill, this film was made for the Museum as an overview of the story of skiing in Steamboat Springs featuring its notables and highpoints seen against the backdrop of the Town today.

welCoMe 10 new Hall of Fame inductees, six films added to the “Snow-100,” a celebration of Howelsen Hill’s 100th Anniversary and the Legend of Buddy Werner

The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame’s annual induction event and Skiing History Week have become the hallmark of every ski season.

This year it is great to have brought this event to Steamboat Springs, which has produced more skiing and snowboarding Olympians than any other community, and to help mark the 100th anniversary of its legendary Howelsen Hill.

Howelsen Hill is named after a great Hall of Famer, Carl Howelsen who brought his passion for skiing from his native Norway to America in 1905. This week we also celebrate the impact of another Hall of Famer, Buddy Werner, who tom Kelly inspired so many skiers with his success during his career in the 1960s.

Chairman, Board of Directors Our class of honorees this year is the largest group inducted into the Hall of Fame since 1984 bringing the total number of Honored Members to 404. Being inducted into the Hall of Fame and receiving its Medal of Honor is the highest award that a person involved as a national team member or as a builder of the sport can receive in this country.

We do appreciate your support of this event which serves as the primary fundraiser for the Hall of Fame each year. Not only will you enjoy reliving the stories of these great people you will also be helping underwrite the Hall’s work in honoring those who have paved the way for us to enjoy such a wonderful lifelong sport as skiing and snowboarding. You will also be supporting the effort to maintain the memory of their records and the artifacts that help tell their story.

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Hall oF FaMe More Than 60 Years of Service to Ski Sport

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he U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame is likely the largest ski museum in the world. Occupying more than 20,000 square feet of space and maintaining a collection of 75,000 artifacts, photographs and films, including thousands of feet produced by the legendary John Jay it offers a lot to those interested in learning about and preserving the history of skiing and snowboarding. It was founded in 1954.

It is located in Ishpeming, a city in the heart of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that can legitimately claim to be the birthplace of organized skiing.

In 1905, Carl Tellefsen, a local businessman with a passion for skiing who had immigrated

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from Norway 20 years earlier pulled together a meeting of ski clubs in the midwest to form the National Ski Association of America. Today it is known as the USSA, which has been so successful with our national ski teams. Tellefsen was the founding president and later would be the fi rst Honored Member of the national Hall of Fame.

The Vision of the Hall of Fame is: To promote, honor, celebrate and preserve the records of the athletes and builders of skiing and snowboarding as a sport and industry.

The selection process each year takes almost six months.

Nominations are accepted from anyone with the annual deadline being April 30. A Se-

lection Committee of 20 to 25 experts then meets and reviews each nomination to make sure that a nominee must at least have had national impact on our sport. Skiing and snowboarding athletes must have been successful in World Cup, World Championship or Olympic competition. The rules have been expanded to honor the best free and big mountain skiers that have emerged in the last 20 years.

A ballot is produced by the committee that is voted online by the National Voting Panel which consists of nearly 200 enthusiasts in the country. To become an inductee a person must receive at least 50 percent of their votes. (Visit SkiHall. com to see the Rules of Gov-

Carl tellefsen ernance and the Nomination Form). With the Class of 2014, 404 people have been honored.

Everyone is encouraged to become a Patron of the Hall of Fame to help support its Vision and Mission in the preservation of the heritage for the sport we love. This can be done through the Hall of Fame’s website or by calling its staff at 906-485-6323.

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CUrT CHAse

Curt Chase was an innovator and motivating force in ski instruction for nearly 50 years. One of the founding directors of the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) he had a significant impact on the development of the American Ski Technique.

Curt Chase (right) with legendary Hall of Famer Friedl Pfeiffer.

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e first learned to ski at the age of 10 and was inspired in the 1930s

by America’s ski star of the time, Dick Durrance. A good ski racer, he was on the ski team for the University of New Hampshire for two ski seasons in the early 1940s and later would have raced at the 1950 World Championships in Aspen had he not broken his leg.

In 1943 he became a survival training instructor for the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division. As a staff sergeant he fought in the battle of Mount Belvedere in Italy and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal. From 1951 to 1953, as a civilian, he was again a survival training instructor for the Strategic Air Command. In 1946 he had moved to Aspen and immediately organized, trained and directed the Aspen Ski Patrol. He also became an apprentice ski instructor for the Aspen Ski School, beginning a career that took him to the Otsego Ski Club in Gaylord, Michigan, the Strategic Air Command and then to directing the ski school at Grizzly Peak in Red Lodge

Montana for four years. By 1959 he was not only a certified instructor but also the chief examiner for ski instructors in the Northern Rocky Mountain Ski Instructors Division. In 1962 he helped found the PSIA and a year later took on the leadership of the Aspen Ski School, a position he held for 17 years. In 1968 he was the coach of the U.S. Ski Instructors Demonstration Team at the 8th INTERSKI being held in Aspen that year.

He studied the art of ski instruction, emphasizing the practical and comfortable methods of skiing that would become part of the American Teaching Technique and have a huge impact on ski instruction nationally and internationally. It has been said that he had direct contact with more than 1,000 instructors and likely influenced more than 100,000 more. He had the legendary George Joubert’s book Teach Yourself To Ski, translated into English in 1970.

After retiring as Snowmass’s ski instruction leader in 1983, he continued as a ski instructor for another 10 years while also enjoying skiing for up to 180 days each winter.

Curt Chase Born Oct. 3, 1922 Died June 6, 2014 Resided in Colorado

Career Awards & Highlights 1943 Survival Training Instructor, 10th Mountain Division 1946 Organized and trained the Aspen Ski Patrol 1951-1953 Civilian survival training instructor, Strategic Air Command 1962 One of eight founding directors of the PSIA 1963 – 1980 Aspen Ski School Director 1980 – 1983 Snowmass Ski School Director 1989 Inducted into the Colorado Ski Hall of Fame 2012 Recipient of the PSIA Lifetime Achievement Award

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JOe CUsHing

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Joe Cushing is a pioneer and producer of modern ski area planning and design.

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uring his 35 year career, his contributions to skiing in North America significantly influenced what ski resorts are today and what skiers have come to expect from their favorite resorts.

In 1964 Cushing joined Sel Hannah’s company, Sno.engineering, which became the pre-eminent international ski area planning and design firm. Hannah’s leadership at the time led to his being inducted into the national hall of fame five years later. Cushing would take it to a whole new level. He had the ability to “read” a mountain and to create a network of trails that catered to all skier ability levels. Together they developed techniques and standards that continue to guide ski area development today.

During the course of his career Cushing was invited to explore more than 400 projects, of which more than 150 include some or all of his design influence. Many were built from scratch while others were existing ski areas that were renovated to modern standards. His influ-

ence can be seen at the many of ski areas in the United States where trails flow gracefully down the mountain, lift capacity is balanced with terrain capacity and facilities are balanced with a comfortable carrying capacity. His work is now enjoyed at many resorts including Loon Mountain and Bretton Woods in New Hampshire; Sugarbush and Stratton Mountain in Vermont; and Copper Mountain and Keystone in Colorado. He was involved in the design of Deer Valley in Utah from the very beginning until the near completion of the project in 1998. The resort has named a guest facility at the top of the mountain, Cushing’s Cabin, to recognize the key role he played in designing this famous resort.

In the 1980s he started to mentor the younger planners that would carry forward his design legacy, including Tim Beck (Vice President, Mountain Planning, Vail Resorts) and his son Chris (Mountain Planning Director, SE Group). They continue to utilize the techniques developed by him.

Joe Cushing Born June 14, 1930 Resides in New Hampshire

Career Awards & Highlights mid-1960s Created Ski Area Design Guidelines 1989 National Ski Area Design Award (Copper Mountain) Snow Country Magazine 1990 Best Overall Design (Deer Valley) Snow Country Magazine 1992 National Ski Area Design Awards (2) Snow Country Magazine 2008 New England Ski Museum Spirit of Skiing Award 2013 Carson White Quill Award, NASJA

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CHris dAVenPOrT

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A two-time World Champion skier, Chris Davenport continues to be widely regarded as one of the premier big mountain skiers in the world.

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e has many ski mountaineering achievements including skiing all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks in one year. He has numerous first descents under his belt and guided and skied on Mount Everest four years ago.

After racing for New Hampshire’s Holderness School and the University of Colorado, Davenport got involved with the newly established big mountain competition scene.

He rapidly made his name by winning the 1996 World Extreme Skiing Championships, the 1998 24 Hours of Aspen, and a medal at the 98 XGames. He would repeat his Extreme World Champs victory in 2001, a year after having reached the podium in every competition he entered. His consistent success, coupled with his skill as a spokesman and his involvement

in the fi lm and print media helped to usher in the modern era of big mountain free ride skiing. He has been featured in nearly 40 Warren Miller and Matchstick fi lm productions.

He is also a television commentator for ESPN, ABC Sports and Outside Television along with doing announcing at many World Cup and World Championship events. He was the host announcer for alpine skiing at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

He tours as a professional speaker, lecturing on risk management as it relates to the business of mountain sports and has also been the author of two popular coffee table books: Ski the 14ers and Fifty Classic Ski Descents in North America. In the world of athlete sponsorship, he was the first North American in any sport to be sponsored by the famous Red Bull company, and is also an owner of the famous Austrian brand, Kastle Skis.

Chris davenport Born Jan. 4, 1971 Resides in Colorado

Career Awards & Highlights 1996 World Extreme Skiing Champion 1998 ESPN X-Games bronze medal winner; 24 hours of Aspen Champion 2001 World Extreme Skiing Champion 2002 Powder Magazine Reader’s Pole Award (*Repeated in 2004 and 2005) 2006-2007 First person to ski all of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountain peaks 2011 Skied the Lhotse face of Mount Everest 2013 Named among ESPN’s Ten Greatest American Freeskiers of All Time

Photos by Christian Pondella/Red Bull Photofiles

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KrisTinA KOZniCK

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Kristina Koznick is among the select group of U.S. female skiers who have excelled in competition at the international level.

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s a talented youngster she made it to the U.S. Ski Team at the age of 15 and remained on it for 16 years. Over the years in World Cup competition she reached the podium 20 times and earned top 10 results in over one third of the races she competed in.

Her consistent success in the technical slalom events opened the door for the outstanding results by the women who were to follow her.

Born in Minnesota she developed her skills on the runs at the Buck Hill ski area outside of Minneapolis. She was coached by Hall of Famer Erich Sailer who has produced many of America’s top skiers. She competed in her first World Cup event in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire in 1991 and won her first World Cup points two years later. Her best seasons would come in 1997-1998 and 2001-2002 when she earned Crystal Globes for her overall second place. This is an outstanding accomplish-

ment achieved only by a few select racers.

Her six World Cup wins in the slalom were only surpassed by Tamara McKinney until Mikaela Shiffren came on the scene. Still during her career she was the best U.S. slalom skier during her career winning five national titles.

She competed at three Olympic Games and six World Championships.

Ski Racing Magazine picked her as the Top Alpine Ski Racer of the Year in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002. Following her retirement in 2006 she worked as a ski racing commentator for NBC and Universal Sports and now has her own ski guiding business, Performance Studios, working with adults and children to help them fully enjoy their time out on the mountain.

A source of pride for her was her consistency. She was the top U.S. female skier in World Cup slalom races from 1995 to 2005 and remained ranked in the top 15 from 1998 to 2006.

Kristina Koznick Born Nov. 24, 1975 Resides in Colorado

Career Awards & Highlights 1995-2005 Five national slalom titles plus three second place finishes 1998-2003 Six victories in World Cup slalom races 1997-2005 10 second place finishes in World Cup slalom races 1998 & 2002 World Cup Crystal Globes earned for finishing second overall 1998-2000 & 2002 Selected U.S. Alpine Ski Racer of the Year

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JoHn MCMurtrY John McMurtry, U.S. Ski Team coach and alpine development leader during the 1980s, established a regional feeder program bringing thousands of athletes to the sport.

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ohn McMurtry might be best known for his career coaching the U.S. Ski Team in the 1980s. His racers won World Cup titles, Olympic medals and the team’s only Nation’s Cup. Many of the skiers he coached have become Honored Members of the national ski hall of fame.

Yet his most significant contribution to the sport of skiing could be the USSA’s Regional Development Program that has brought and continues to bring thousands of young athletes into the sport. After he left the U.S. Ski Team in 1984, it rarely achieved top 10 results. It was the top alpine ski team at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics

but won no medals at the 1988 Games in Calgary. In 1987 he was invited back as the Alpine Director and the Director of Athlete Development. He envisioned and executed a regional development program that set the team up for its consistent success today.

He proposed that the country be divided into three regions: Eastern, Rocky/Central and Western. These regions would organize training camps and competitions for the top junior talent and their coaches. They would remain connected to their home program.

This exposed these athletes to national programs and allowed regional and national directors, coaches and staff to identify talent.

Within three years 14 medals had been won

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at the World Junior Championships. This structure remains in place today and has produced racers like Picabo Street, Tommy Moe, Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, Lindsay Vonn and Kristina Koznick.

He is presently the Chief Development Officer of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute where he and his team work to prevent ski injuries through research and education. Their goal is to increase lifelong enjoyment of sports through proper physical preparation.

He has created a legacy with his training performance manuals for athletes and coaches, assisting with international ski programs and sports medicine research.

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John mcmurtry Born June 28, 1950 Resides in Colorado

Career Awards & Highlights 1969-1971 Member of the University of Denver’s NCAA national championship team 1974 Rocky Mountain Coach of the Year 1976-1984 U.S. Ski Team Women’s Coach 1978 Authored the first comprehensive U.S. Ski Team Alpine Training Manual 1980-1984 Coach, U.S. Women’s World Cup, Olympic Slalom and Giant Slalom Ski Teams 1982 Colorado has John McMurtry Day 1985 Chief of Race for the first World Cup races held in Utah 1987-1990 U.S. Ski Team Alpine Director and Director of Athlete Development 1994 to present Director of Development, Steadman, Philippon Research Institute 1995 Inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame

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Ralph Miller has to be regarded as one of America’s best competitive skiers during the 1950s. He excelled in all aspects of the sport and was competitive in just about every event that he entered.

Ralph Miller (center) with teammates Marvin Miller (left) and Buddy Werner (right).

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orn and raised in New Hampshire he would compete and win in the four event competitions that were part of skiing at that time while in high school and college. The downhill, slalom, ski jumping and cross-country were the events the students were expected to enter. As Otto Schniebs said, “If you must specialize, specialize in four events.”

While attending Dartmouth College he won the NCAA overall championship in 1951 and in 1957 earning the title of “Skimeister.”

At the same time he claimed four North American titles and four U.S. national titles.

He also participated in the World Championships in 1954 and the Olympics in 1956, before the U.S. Ski Team had a full time coach to help its skiers excel. Sports Illustrated acknowledged his leading position by featuring him on the magazine cover on Feb. 6, 1956, prior to the Cortina Winter Olympics.

He was competitive in many major ski races and often beat the top international skiers who raced in them. He won or reached the podium in the Roch Cup, the Harriman Cup, The Silver Belt Trophy, the classic Inferno race, and the American-International

ralph miller Born Sept. 23, 1933 Resides in Kentucky

Career Awards & Highlights

Championships.

Starting in 1951 he would go to Chile during the northern summer period to train and race at Portillo. There he would win two Chilean national championship events. In 1955 he set a world speed record on his Northland skis of 109 miles per hour. It was a record that stood for 15 years.

1951 Eastern Interscholastic Champion, 1st in the Chilean Nationals 1952 Winner of the USEASA Webber Challenge Cup, Sandler Trophy, Sherburne Trophy, 1st - Chilean National slalom, 3rd – Inferno Race 1953 North American Downhill title, Roch Cup and U.S. National downhill and combined titles 1954 2nd place finishes in three international events in Europe 1995 Sets world speed record for skiing that stood for 15 years, top American at the AmericanInternational downhill and slalom championships

1956 U.S. Olympic Ski Team

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Ross Powers had an extraordinary career in snowboarding competition and continues to this day to contribute to success of others who are following in his wake on the slopes.

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e was the winner of the first medals by an American once snowboarding made it to the Olympics. During the course of his career as a competitor he would win just about every event that there was while also demonstrating leadership and good sportsmanship to the benefit of all snowboarders.

He was only nine years old when he competed in his fi rst U.S. Snowboarding Open.

Six years later he was fi rst in the U.S. Nationals in the halfpipe event and earned a place on the U.S. national team. The next year saw his fi rst World Cup win. There would be 23 World Cup podium achievements during his career.

He won the FIS Halfpipe World Championship in 1996.

One of his career highlights was his bronze medal at the 1998 Olympics. It was the first American Olympic medal in snowboarding.

Four years later at the Olympics in Park City he won the gold in an event swept by the U.S. team. He was a dominant figure in the sport during this time winning the Gravity Games and the World Championship in 2000. During his career he won just about every title possible.

After moving from the halfpipe to boardercross competition in 2007 he earned several more podium results.

He is just as successful in his post competi-

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ross Powers Born Feb. 10, 1979 Resides in Vermont

Career Awards & Highlights tive career. Since 2010 he has been the director for the Stratton Mountain Snowboard School leading his team to numerous Rev Tour victories and World Cup top results. Several of his athletes have made it to the U.S. snowboard team.

In 2013 he was the recipient for the Buddy Werner Award for his excellence as a competitor and leader in our sport. He has established the Ross Powers Foundation to help talented riders with funds for education, travel and competition. This Level Field Fund has assisted dozens of athletes.

1996 Gold medal, FIS World Championships 1998 Olympic bronze medalist, Winter X Games double gold medalist 2000 Gold medalist, Goodwill Games, Gravity Games, World Championship 2002 Olympic gold medalist 2010 to present Stratton Mountain Snowboard School Director 2013 Buddy Werner Award, Inducted into the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame

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Erik Schlopy, World Champion medalist, three-time Olympian and seven-time national champion who had one of the longest and most successful careers in U.S. ski racing history.

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rik Schlopy is a three-time Olympian (1994, 2002, 2006), seven time national champion, World Pro Super G champion, World Championships bronze medalist, and winner of a FIS crystal globe for his success in World Cup races. An outstanding elite ski racer for 18 years he competed in the World Championships six times from 1993 to 2007 and had 17 top 10 results in World Cup races.

Along with his long and successful racing career, Erik Schlopy was an inspiration with his tenacity and perseverance through multiple injuries and challenges. He suffered a broken back (1993), several other injuries and required four knee surgeries. He always fought through to continue his success.

Along with his success was his reputation for innovations in and around the sports. He is credited with being the first racer to “double stack” the lifters under the bindings which increased the leverage and edge angle resulting in more speed. Realizing that travelling through Europe created more stress for North American racers, during the strenuous World Cup season he teamed up with Bode Miller to pioneer the practice of using a European home base that was centrally located in Innsbruck, Austria. This strategy is followed by many of our country’s top skiers today.

Schlopy has been the only ski racer in history to successfully go from World Cup racing to the Pro Tour and then back to the World Cup.

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erik schlopy Born Aug. 21, 1972 Resides in Utah

Career Awards & Highlights 1993-2007 Named to six U.S. World Championship Teams 1996 Pro Tour Rookie of the Year 1998 World Pro Super G Champion 2001 Third overall World Cup GS 2003 Bronze medalist – GS World Championships 2014 Inducted into the Buffalo (NY) Sports Hall of Fame

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Dr. roBert sMitH Dr. Robert Smith, dentist turned goggle inventor who changed the face of skiing in the 1960s when he developed a thermal lens goggle that did not fog and founded his eyewear company, Smith Optics.

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passionate powder skier and dentist, Bob Smith had problems with his goggles in the late 1950s. They would fog up, or snow would come through the goggle air vents on the side and through the face. Bob solved these problems. He did this by inventing the thermal lens goggle and inventing a new foam that kept the snow out and let air in the goggles from the side. He also developed a face foam that kept the snow from coming in through the nose area. Finally he created a new strap that held the goggles tighter against the face.

He filed a patent for these features in 1966 and in 1968 received the approval for

U.S. Patent 3,377,626. It gave birth to goggles that are enjoyed world-wide by skiers and snowboarders.

He founded Smith Optics in Sun Valley, Idaho that has served as an inspiration for snow sport industry dreamers and builders.

Within three years it was the largest goggle manufacturing company in the United States.

Today it has annual worldwide sales exceeding $60 million and continues to improve the skiing experience as evidenced by the fact that thermal lenses are used on nearly all performance goggles today.

Famous ski fi lm producer Warren Miller once wrote: “Bob Smith changed skiing‌â€?

dr. robert smith Born May 12, 1933 Died April 18, 2012 Resided in Idaho

Career Awards & Highlights 1968 Receives Patent 3,377,626 1970 Smith Optics becomes the largest ski goggle manufacturer in the United States 1981 With Charles Ferries and Richard Sudgen purchases Scott USA 2013 Elected to the Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame and the Inter Mountain Hall of Fame

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Jeannie tHoren

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Jeannie Thoren, regarded as the Johnny Appleseed women’s of skiing, a pioneer in developing women’s specific ski equipment.

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hen she started to ski there was no women’s specific equipment in the sport.

She began to customize her own equipment and saw a direct connection between her gear and the improvement in her technique. She would make it her lifelong mission to help other women by making their equipment better.

Eventually, in 1981 she held her fi rst women’s gear clinic, at Buck Hill in Minnesota. Th is inspired her setting up regular clinics, up to 70 per season, around the country, from 1988 to 2006 when she travelled with a trailer of gear in tow. Her “Thoren Theory Women’s Ski Equipment Seminars” helped thousands of women throughout North America to improve their skiing.

Recognizing that women have smaller feet and a lower center of gravity than men,

she focused on better fitting boots including footbeds, heel lifts and cants under the bindings, along with moving bindings forward on the skis that women used. In 1986 she designed what is believed to be the first specific woman’s ski for Blizzard. Besides her clinics she worked as a marketing consultant and drew attention from the ski press thus creating awareness and demand for women centric gear. This raised the bar for the entire ski industry while improving the sport for all women. The Exclusive Carve Ski which she designed for Dynastar became SKI Magazine’s ski of the year in 2007.

In 2009 Thoren and her husband Tom opened Jeannie Thoren’s Women’s Ski Center in Vail, Colorado. It is the first women’s ski shop in the country to focus on women’s specific equipment. Its success has proven once again to the ski industry that if you build it right she will buy it.

Jeannie Thoren Born July 18, 1946 Resides in Minnesota

Career Awards & Highlights 1984-1985 Author of “The Woman Skier” for SKI magazine 1986 Designer of the first women’s specific ski 1988-2006 Holds women’s gear clinics throughout North America 1999 Skiing magazine ranks her as one of the 25 most influential people 2000-2002 Ranked in the top 100 ski instructors in the United States 2003 Received the Carson White Golden Quill Award from NASJA

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honoreD memBers 1956 Arthur J. Barth* Aksel Holter* Edward F. Taylor* Carl Tellefsen* 1957 Fred Harris* 1958 Charles M. Dole* Richard Durrance* Harold Grinden* Roger Langley* Andrea Mead Lawrence* Fred H. McNeil* Hannes Schneider* Marthinius Strand* Gordon Wren* 1959 Alexander Bright* Dr. Raymond Elmer* Alf Engen* Robert McLean* Charles N. Proctor* Torger Tokle* 1960 Gretchen K. Fraser* 1963 Arthur Devlin* Anders Haugen* Lars Haugen* Casper Oimoen* Magnus Satre* 1964 Roy Mikkelsen* Rolf Monsen* Wendell Robie* Wallace Werner*

1965 Walter Bietila* Burton Boyum* Dr. Amos R. Little* Eugene Petersen*

Members of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame represent the highest level of achievement in the sport — featuring athletes, artists, visionaries, inventors, promoters, entrepreneurs, doers and dreamers. They are all pioneers in their own right and have forever changed skiing and boarding.

For that, we can only say thank you!

1969 LeMoine Batson* John Bower Dr. Harold C. Bradley* W. Averell Harriman* Harry Wade Hicks* 1966 John Hostvedt* Asario Autio* Carl Howelsen* Erling Heistad* Alice Damrosch Kaier* David Lawrence* Col. George Emerson Leach* Grace Carter Lindley* Harry Lien* Lawrence Maurin* Ernie McCulloch* John McCrillis* Fred Pabst* Charles A. Proctor* Nancy Greene Raine Hannes Schroll* Jack Reddish* Lowell Thomas* Herman Smith-Johannsen* Conrad Thompson* Sigfied Steinwall* Marian McKean Wigglesworth* George H. Watson* Henry S. Woods Betty Woolsey* Katy Rodolph Wyatt* Rhoda Wurtele Rhona Wurtele 1967 Edward Blood* 1970 Henry Hall* Paul Bietila* Hjalmar Hvam* Fred Bruun* Jill Kinmont Boothe* John J. Clair, Jr.* Toni Matt* Godfrey Dewey* Dave McCoy William T. Eldred* Ragnar Omtvedt* Thor C. Groswold* Otto Schniebs* Ole Hegge* Hans Teichner* Cortlandt T. Hill* Jannette Burr Johnson 1968 L.B. MacNab* Julius Blegen* Richard Movitz* Clarita Heath Bright* George A. Newett* John P. Carleton* Birger Ruud* Henry Percy Douglas* Sigmund Ruud* John Elvrum* Lloyd Severud* Alf Halvorson* John A. Thompson* Selden J. Hannah* Arthur Tokle* George S. Kotlarek* Paula Kann Valar* Sir Arnold Lunn* John Wictorin* Ole Mangseth* Helen McAlpin* Roland Palmedo* Ernest O. Pederson*

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1971 Reidar Andersen* Warren Chivers* Sverre Engen* Sigi Engl* Nathaniel L. Goodrich* James Griffith* James R. Hendrickson* Sally Neidlinger Hudson* Chiharu Igaya Ronald MacKenzie* Nels Nelson* Guttorm Paulsen* Paul Joseph Perrault* Paul Ottar Satre* Albert E. Sigal* 1972 Hermod Bakke* Magnus Bakke* Nancy R. Cooke* Donald Fraser* Fred Iselin* Sigrid S. Laming* Earle B. Little* John E. P. Morgan* Dorothy H. Nebel* Willis S. Olson Erling Strom* Birger Torrissen* 1973 Hannah Locke Carter* Howard Chivers* Corey Engen* Luggi Foeger* Sverre Fredheim* Carl Holmstrom* Arthur Knudsen* George Macomber Malcolm McLane* J. Stanley Mullin* Harald Sorensen*

1974 Richard Buek* Frank Elkins* E.O. Erickson* James Flaa* Clarence "Coy" Hill* Felix Koziol* Dr. Hans Kraus* C. Allison Merrill* Strand Mikkelsen* Sondre Norheim* Willy Schaefer* 1975 Ralph Bietila* Jimmy Ellingson* A. Andrew Hauk* Sven Johanson* Steve Knowlton* S. Joseph Quinney* Robert H. Reid* Dr. Merritt Stiles* Hans Strand* Ralph J. Townsend* 1976 William B. Berry* Barbara A. Cochran Susan Corrock Edmund Couch* Ann Heggtveit Hamilton James Heuga* William Winston Kidd William Koch Kathy Kreiner Cindy Nelson Byron L. Nishkian* Sigurd Overby* Roger A. Peabody* Penelope Pitou Harry Pollard* Jean Saubert* Betsy Snite* Jakob Vaage* Lucile Wheeler Vaughan

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1977 Sepp Benedikter* Siegfried Buchmayr* Ralph A. DesRoches* Halvor Halstad* Barbara Kidder-Lee* Anton Lekang* Robert Livermore* Walter Prager* Joseph B. Ryan* Enzo Serafini* 1978 Elizabeth Clifford Marilyn Cochran J. Negley Cooke* Thomas Corcoran Sally Deaver Murray* Brooks Dodge Barbara Ferries Joan Hannah James Hunter Gregory Jones Otto Lang* Penny McCoy Warren Miller Peter Patterson Sepp Ruschp* 1979 Montgomery Atwater* Howard Head* William C. Janss* Roland Peabody* Walter Schoenknecht* Clif Taylor* 1980 John Balfanz* Steve Bradley* Edwin D. Eaton* Friedl Pfeifer* Wayne Poulsen* Gustav Raaum 1981 Wallace Bertram* Wendell Broomhall Marc Hodler* John Jay* Paul Leimkuehler* Phil Mahre Olav Ulland* Sven Wiik 1982 Stein Eriksen Katharine Peckett Holman* Gene Kotlarek Rudy Maki Linda Meyers Tikalsky Eugene Wilson*

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1983 John Caldwell Max Dercum* William Lash Rudolph Mattesich* Albert F. Sise* Helmut Teichner* 1984 Graham Anderson Debbie Armstrong Robert Beattie Christin Cooper Ernest Dion* William Johnson Steve Mahre Tamara McKinney Peter Seibert* Dorice Taylor* 1985 Dr. David Bradley* Robert Parker Ben Rinaldo* Paul Valar* 1986 Nelson Bennett Gloria Chadwick* Gerald Groswold Marilyn S. McMahon* Martha Rockwell 1987 Ernest Blake* Dr. Frank Howard* Douglas Pfeiffer Ernest Robes* 1988 Fred Bellmar* Suzanne Chaffee Michael Gallagher* Wilbert Rasmussen* Suzy H. Rytting Anthony Wise* 1989 Charles Ferries H. Devereaux Jennings* Dr. Richard Steadman 1990 William Brown* James H. Carruthers* Cal Conniff Harold S. Hirsch* Benno Rybizka*

1991 George Bauer* Edna Dercum* Robert Johnstone*

2001 James Curran* Dodie Post Gann* Charles Gibson* H. William Kirschner* Josef Stiegler Michael Strauss* Picabo Street

1992 Thomas Gary Allen* Ted Farwell* Richard Kohnstamm* J. Vernon Lamb, Jr.* Herbert Schneider*

2002 Georgene Bihlman* Clare Bousquet* Hans Gmoser* John Litchfield* Robert Oden* Carroll Reed* Nikki Stone

1993 Jan Bucher Christina Cutter William C. Marolt 1994 James R. Branch* Earl A. Miller* Hal O'Leary

2003 Ernst Constam* Alexander Cushing* AJ Kitt Tommy Moe Jerry Nunn* Diann Roffe

1995 John Fry 1996 Junior Bounous Jimmy Johnston* David Rowan*

2004 Alan Engen Thor B. Groswold Donna Weinbrecht

1997 Diana Golden* W. David Judson, Jr.* Morton Lund Klaus Obermeyer

2005 David Brown* Walter Foeger* Hilary Lindh Erich Sailer

1998 Anna McIntyre William Tanler* Warren Witherell* John Woodward

2006 Jonny Moseley Julie Parisien Trace Worthington

1999 Emile Allais* John Henry Auran Merrill Barber* Frederick W. Mittelstadt* Webb Moffett* Edward Scott* Dr. J. Leland Sosman* 2000 Dick Barrymore* Bill Beck Ned Gillette* Bob Lange* Olav Pedersen* Preston Leete Smith

2007 Cary Adgate Eric Bergoust Jake & Donna Carpenter Mitch Cubberley* Tom Jacobs* Everett Kircher* Doug Lewis 2008 Bill Briggs Nelson Carmichael Liz McIntyre

2009 Jack Benedick* Stu Campbell* Doug Coombs* Sepp Kober* Paul Robbins* Ansten Samuelstuen* Chris Waddell Sarah Will 2010 Bobby Cochran Muffy Davis Earl Holding* Shane McConkey* Glen Plake Daron Rahlves 2011 Nick Badami* Mason Beekley* Dick Dorworth Philip Gravink Harry Leonard Joe Pack Tyler Palmer Eva Twardokens 2012 Horst Abraham Jeremy Bloom Kirsten Clark Hans Geier Craig Kelly* Wayne Wong 2013 John Clendenin Toby Dawson Kris Feddersen Joe Jay Jalbert Scot Schmidt Jerry Simon* 2014 Curt Chase* Joe Cushing Chris Davenport Kristina Koznick John McMurtry Ralph Miller Ross Powers Erik Schlopy Dr. Robert Smith* Jeannie Thoren

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HOnOred memBers Here is a showcase of logos from the businesses belonging to several of our Honored Members.

Thank you for sharing them with us.

Kris Feddersen Class of 2013 eric Bergoust Class of 2007

suzy Chaffee Class of 1988

Kristen Clark-rickenbach Class of 2012

Chuck Ferries Class of 1989

Phil mahre Class of 1981

Cindy nelson Class of 1976

Pete Patterson Class of 1978 Anne Heggtveit Hamilton Class of 1976

erich sailer Class of 2005

Pepi steigler Class of 2001

nikki stone Class of 2002

Penny Pitou Class of 1976 John Clendenin Class of 2013

eva Twadokens Class of 2011

Jim Hunter Class of 1978

AJ Kitt Class of 2003

daron rahlves Class of 2010

Chris waddell Class of 2009

Christin Cooper Class of 1984

Chris davenport Class of 2014

doug lewis Class of 2007

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diann roffe Class of 2003

wayne wong Class of 2012

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Congratulations to the Class of 2014 Curt Chase Joe Cushing Chris Davenport Kristina Koznick John McMurtry Ralph Miller Ross Powers Erik Schlopy Robert Smith Jeannie Thoren

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Howelsen Centennial sets us apart Our View:

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owelsen Hill Ski Area may be tiny by modern standards, but it undeniably looms large in the history of competitive skiing in North America.

Our town hill has hosted televised Nordic combined World Cups and many national ski jumping championships.

However, as the community celebration of Howelsen Hill’s centennial reached a crescendo in February 2015, we’re reminded that the significance of the little ski area to the community transcends the 88-plus Winter Olympians who have trained there.

Howelsen is part of our DNA. It’s what sets us apart from other ski towns and most certainly from suburban America.

Howelsen Hill is on the Colorado Register of Historic Places, calling out its stature as the longest continuously operating ski area west of the Mississippi River. But it’s also where our youngsters go to experience a childhood most families can only dream of offering their children. As a community member of our editorial board asked rhetorically: “Can you imagine growing up like this?”

Steamboat Springs, in addition to being a place where hardworking families enjoy a remarkable outdoor lifestyle, also is that mythical little town in the Rocky Mountains where youngsters put down their textbooks at 3:30 p.m. and head off to ski practice with the Steamboat Springs Winter

Story by Steamboat Today editorial board • Photos courtesy of Steamboat Pilot & Today archives Sports Club at Howelsen. Many people toiling in distant cities have a longstanding dream of someday moving here. And for many of those households with children, Howelsen is emblematic of that dream.

There is an annual rite of passage that takes place at Howelsen Hill known to parents as Poma Trauma. It’s the day when 3and 4-year-olds prove their mettle and qualify to ride the old Poma ski lift that takes them to the top of the hill — 440 vertical feet up.

Surviving Poma Trauma is the equivalent of 16-year-olds passing their driver’s test. Parents line the tow path to support the children while the little skiers learn to stand on their own two feet, literally and figuratively, while mastering the tricky lift.

Once that goal is reached, children gain autonomy as they are allowed to ski Howelsen with relatively loose supervision from adults who are not their parents. They even learn to manage money at Howelsen.

Parents can hand over a $20 bill to the food concessionaire to have it recorded on an index card, serving as a form of credit. The kids can draw down their account gradually in the form of after-school snacks.

For many youngsters, their dreams are realized when they qualify for a junior national championship competition in Alpine, Nordic, snowboarding, freestyle and Telemark skiing. Others go on to realize their goal of qualifying for a national team and a

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relative few represent the United States at the Winter Olympics. But life lessons learned are what endure for most of the youngsters.

Howelsen Hill already was experiencing a Renaissance in the middle of the past decade, with many youngsters freeskiing and snowboarding independently of the Winter Sports Club, when the Great Recession changed the economy of the Yampa Valley. During those years and since, Howelsen has afforded many local families an affordable way to introduce their youngsters to snow sports. You can observe the trend any weekend at Howelsen Hill, where a season pass for Alpine skiing begins at $35 for children 5 and younger and costs $130 for youngsters 6 to 18.

But Howelsen also is a city park with tennis courts, softball diamonds, rodeo grounds, hiking and cycling trails and a hockey rink. The city of Steamboat Springs’ partnerships with the community and the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, along with the implied funding, are essential to the vitality of this unique municipal park.

Without the collaboration of city staff, on behalf of the taxpayers, it would be difficult, if not impossible to sustain the first-class winter sports park that is Howelsen Hill.

We hope everyone in Steamboat during Skiing History Week will take the opportunity to attend one of the entertaining events at Howelsen Hill to experience its charm.

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Above: Marv Crawford, far right, 1956 Nordic combined Olympian and member of the Colorado ski and sports halls of fame, conducts opening ceremonies for a major ski jumping competition (probably sometime in the 1960s) at Howelsen Hill. He was also general manager of the Storm Mountain Ski Area (later to become Steamboat Ski Area) from 1964 to 1967.

Left: Flag bearers from Steamboat Ski Area participate in opening ceremonies for an international competition at Howelsen Hill in March 1981.

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“Snow-100” Film Festival

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his annual film festival, which is an important event during Skiing History Week offers the showings of the latest selection of ski films for the Ski and Snowboard Film Institute. The institute is part of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame.

These films are to receive a “Jerry” and become part of the “Snow-100,” that is the best 100 ski films ever made.

The Jerry Award, which is given to the makers of these films, honors Jerry Simon, Hall of Fame Honored Member — Class of 2013, who passed away in 2010. Simon, amongst his other many achievements established the first International Ski Film Festival in the early 1970s, which annually showcased the best ski films from each season. The statuette given to each winner came to be regarded as The Oscar for ski films. Unlike

Simon’s festival which judged the annual crop of new ski films, the Ishpeming International Film Festival celebrates the best films of all time and a film must have already stood the test of time for 10 years before becoming eligible. The Jerry Awards Ceremony, held on April 8 here in Steamboat, is free and open to the public. Films that are receiving awards from the International Skiing History Association are also being shown this week.

2015 Jerry Award Winning Films

The Incredible Skis

Ski Fascination (Skifaszination)

Produced and Directed by Roger C. Brown & Barry Corbet, 1968 (30 minutes)

Willy Bogner Producer Director 1966 (44 minutes)

There had been sponsored films to promote ski products like skis, but “the Incredible Skis” was “a startling departure in ski movies” unique for its imaginative script that takes a leap into sheer fantasy. This could easily be called a children’s film. Showing the manufacturing of 1967 Hart Skis, the film follows a disgruntled factory worker who stumbles upon a formula for empowering skis with a magic ability to transform anyone who wears them into a magician on snow.

With ground breaking acrobatic skiing performances by Art Furrer, Herman Goellner and Tom Leroy the film laid the foundation for what would later be know as, Freestyle with aerials creatively edited and mixed with ballet routines.

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This was a break out film for Willy Bogner. He employed a unique concept for its production. The film has no narrative or plot, but rather emphasizes alpine skiing’s beauty by choreographing the action to the musical background and in so doing Bogner became the world’s first skiing choreographer.

The skiers are seen to dance their way down the mountain.

Composed for the film the original score was preformed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in St, Moritz, Switzerland and Val-d’Isere, France and shot in 35 mm, the film featured the best skiers of the mid-Sixies including Jean Claude Killy, Toni Sailer, Karl Schranz, Buddy Werner and Bari Henneberger.

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2015 Jerry Award Winning Films Shishapangma: A Celebration of Life Michael Brown - Field Producer and Director - 1998 (44 minutes) The attempt to ski the 8,000 meter peak ends in tragedy. While becoming acclimatized, Conrad Anker, David Bridges, and Alex Lowe are engulfed by an avalanche below the peak of Shishapangma. Alex and Dave are lost, but Conrad miraculously survives. The film is both a memorial and a celebration of these men who risk their lives while pursuing their passion for the mountain life and adventure.

In Search of Speed Joe Jay Jalbert - Producer and Director 2004 (28 minutes) In Search of Speed is an adrenaline packed look at Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves hitting the high points of their racing on the world stage, including the 2002 Winter Olympics. Able to draw upon years of filming world cup racers, the narrative offers an insightful glimpse at both the pressures and the skills that are part of an effort to ascend to the center of the podium, what it takes to win on the World Cup Circuit.

This film is great record of racing at the elite level seen through Jalbert’s signature race coverage combined with revealing interviews. This film delivers a charged look at these two athletes against a relentless backdrop of competition.

Ski Movie Steve Winter - Producer and Director 2000 (68 minutes) Match Stick Productions made four films called Ski Movie. This was the first starring Seth Morrison, Shane McConkey, Vincent Dorion, Jonny Moseley, Brad Holmes and many more. This was Matchstick’s breakout film. It distinguished itself from its completion with a seamless feature film feel, staging a road house fantasy that rolls into big mountain action that not only earned it the Powder Magazine’s Ski Movie of the Year but raised the whole standard of filming ski action for the adrenaline film genre.

Fire and Ice (Feuer und Eis) Willy Bogner - Producer and Director 1986 While this movie has a plot, it is essentially irrelevant. The movie captures the 1980s when “extreme” skiers hucked enormous cliffs amid the swift rise of snowboarding and the acceptance of Freestyle skiing. Directed and filmed by Willy Bogner the film features the pioneers of these movements. John Denver does the voiceover narration for the English-language version, Emil Steinberger for the German version.

The film stars Susie Chaffee and John Eaves as well as other skiing luminaries like Wayne Wong as the cowboy. Besides skiing scenes, the movie contains snowboarding, hanggliding and windsurfing scenes. Marietta Waters performed the title track Fire and Ice. Among other honors this film won both a Bambi and the Bavarian Film Award in 1986. continued on page 37 SkiHall.org

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2015 winner OF THe isHA Film AwArd “dog days of winter” (Brian Gilmore) is the first feature documentary on the startup of organized freestyle skiing during the early 1970s in America. Told from the point of view of some of the most influential pioneers of the sport, "Dog Days Of Winter" tells the story of key people and events that set the stage for the birth of the sport, the spirit that freestyle is rooted in, factors that took the "free" out of freestyle and what has become of the sport today.

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The McMurtrys and extended families are incredibly proud of you, John. We congratulate you for this well-deserved award.

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