Shop Burton Step On®

budding instructors through their exams and maintaining friendships with his students as they rose through the levels, said O’Heany.

O’Heany said he has received more than 40 emails from clients from around the world expressing their condolences. “Everyone felt his genuineness,” he added. “He had a huge heart.”

Before his death, Deane was recovering from a double hip surgery he underwent in January of this year. He was recovering well, even walking without crutches weeks ahead of schedule, said O’Heany.

Deane “was on the mend,” Barczynski added. “I’ve never actually seen him this happy, ever. He was beaming because he was so excited about getting healthy. He was hurting—that’s why he got the hip surgery, and I guess he saw a light at the end of the tunnel. He was making all these plans of getting back into mountain biking, getting back into, obviously, skiing.”

Instead, Deane “is going to live a long time in our memories,” said O’Heany, “because we’re going to have lots of clients coming back every year who would have skied with Wayne or would have known him—we’re going to talk about him for decades.”

His laugh and bear hugs will be “sorely missed,” he added. n