The following people have been elected into the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame for the Class of 2012. Wayne Wong is regarded by many as a living legend. He was the leading and most popular skier of his day when hotdog or freestyle skiing was emerging on the scene. The...
Othmar Schneider died suddenly on Dec. 24. Raised in Lech on theArlbergPass, he won the Lauberhorn downhill and combined in 1951 and 1952, plus gold in slalom and silver in downhill at the Oslo Olympics. Had there been a combined medal at those games, he would have had that gold...
FOUNDER CALLS IT A DISSERVICE TO GUESTS The National Standard Race, NASTAR –designed in 1968 - brought the equivalent of golf’s par to skiing. Now, one of the eight original NASTAR ski areas, Vail, has decided to pull itself and its other Colorado ski resorts out of the...
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Former Cranmore Mountain owner/general manager Herbert Schneider, 92, of North Conway, died in Portland, Maine, June 10. Born May 20,1920, Schneider was the son of Ludwina (Seeberger) Schneider and legendary Austrian ski instructor Hannes Schneider (1890-1955) of St. Anton am...
Donald Jerome “Jerry” Berg, aka Bergie, died in a bicycle accident near his home in Minturn, Colo., on June 4. He was 61. A natural athlete, Bergie grew up skiing in the Midwest and joined the Vail Ski School in the early 1970s. He was a PSIA trainer, examiner and alpine...
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Bob Smith, the California orthodontist who invented the double-lens powder goggle, died in PalmDeserton April 18, from complications following surgery to implant a heart pacemaker. He was 78. Robert Earl Smith grew up in San Carlos,Calif.and attended Stanford and the San...
Joy Piles “Lucky” Lucas, 94, died inSpokane,Wash., in February. Raised by Forest Service parents at the Barlow Pass Ranger Station, she began skiing in 1938 and soon married Jim Lucas. Beginning in 1940, the couple ran the Deer Park Ski Lodge and ski school in the Olympic...
Chris Gribbin, 90, died in March. In 1943, he was a founding member of the Ski Instructors Alliance of Canada and its first paid employee, running the office and training programs from 1949 to 1962. An English instructor at the Universityof Montreal, Chris also coached its...
Boulder’s backyard playground hits its stride, and plans for growth By Seth Masia During the winter of 2010-11, Eldora Mountain Resort held a series of meetings to explain its growth plans to local residents. The resort wants to extend the trail system a few hundred feet...
It’s been an historic year for ski jumping. Ski Flying Record On Feb. 11, Johan Remen Evensen took advantage of the newly-enlarged Vikersund 225-meter ski-flying hill in Norway, to set a new world record of 246.5 meters. That surpassed the previous record of 239m, set...
Skiing’s Little Big Man James Frederic Heuga, Sept. 22, 1943 - Feb. 8, 2010 In 1949, the 1937 World Alpine Champion Emile Allais arrived at the newly-opened Squaw Valley to be ski school director. Allais spoke little English, and was happy to relax with another Frenchman on...
Italian Ski Racer Erwin Stricker, a former member of the Italian ski team known for his aggressive style and bigger than life persona, died September 28, 2010, in Bolzano, Italy, at the age of 60. Born August 15, 1950, Stricker raced on the Italian team from 1969 to 1977 and...
Nordic wooden ski maker Ivar Halvorsen, the last of the Nordic wooden ski makers, died at age 93 on August 25, 2010, in Nittedal, Norway. He was born July 17, 1917, to his calling. As a boy, athletic and strong from having worked with his carpenter father, he began...
