Arapahoe Basin Ski Area’s 2011 season opener marked the first time in 64 years that Marjorie Brown “Marnie” Jump wasn’t around to witness the festivities. Jump, of Denver, passed away in June. Jump came to A-Basin after serving four years in the Navy during World War...
Ed Pauls, 80, inventor of the NordicTrack exercise machine and a member of the Rosemount ski boot engineering team, died Oct. 9 at his home in Montrose, Colo. Edward Arthur Pauls was born on Aug. 28, 1931, in Sheboygan, Wis., and grew up on a dairy farm near Wausau. He...
Yvan Pierre Taché passed away peacefully, at his home in Carbondale, Colorado, on October 11th, surrounded by his loving wife and five children. He was 86 years old. Born April 16th, 1925, in the village of St. Jovite, in Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains, with nearby Mont...
BY CADDIE NATH SUMMIT DAILY NEWS, Oct 1 -- Co-founder of two of Summit County's four ski resorts and local legend Max Dercum died Friday, Sept. 30, just days shy of his 99th birthday. Dercum passed away at a retirement home in Evergreen, where he lived, Jefferson County...
Louis Emile Cochand died on July 17, 2011 at the age of 94. A leader and top competitor in the second generation of organized Canadian skiing, Cochand was born into the most famous family of racing and resort-building in Quebec’s Laurentians. Louis was the son of Swiss ski...
[caption id="attachment_482" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Bud Klein"][/caption] Kirkwood,Calif.lost two founders this summer. Bud Klein, 83, died May 5 inStockton, Calif. Klein was a football and baseball star at University of the Pacific and Stanford. In 1950,...
Ralph Outlaw Walton, Jr., died April 17 in LaGrange, Ga. After earning a degree in electrical engineering atAuburnUniversityin 1951, Walton served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and then did classified work in nuclear weapons. He then held management positions at Westinghouse...
John Falconer Fisher III – Jack Fisher – died June 14 inBarre,Vt., at 97. In 1939, Fisher took advantage of snow trains hauling skiers from New York City to nearby Hillsdale, N.Y., to open a couple of rope tows on land he bought 2.5 miles east, on the...
Skiing Heritage obituaries Dick Hauserman, Vail pioneer dead at 93 Toni Sailer, Olympic and World Champion Andrea Mead Lawrence, activist, Olympic champion Wolfgang Lert, racer,coach, filmmaker, importer Stu Campbell, instructor,author, coach Nick Hock, 10th...
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...
Southeastern Ski Pioneer Sepp Kober, who built Southeastern skiing from the ground up and was a 2010 U.S. Ski Hall of Fame inductee, died August 3, 2010, at Bath Community Hospital in Hot Springs, Virginia. He was 88. Born outside of Igls, Austria, near Innsbruck, Kober...
Lodge Owner, Ski Humorist Martie Sterling, owner and operator (with husband Ken) of the Heatherbed Lodge in Aspen, Colorado, and one of skiing’s most prolific writers and humorists, died September 29, 2010, at her home in Aspen. She was 85. Born Martha Whitcomb, Martie...
Legendary equipment manufacturer Georges Salomon, arguably the most influential figure in the ski manufacturing world during the second half of the 20th century, passed away October 5, 2010, at his lakeside home in Annecy, France. He was 85. The company that still bears his...
Rigo Thurmer, lifelong skier, influential architect and ISHA benefactor, died Nov. 8 after a long illness. He was 80. Rigomar Thurmer was born in 1930 and raised in Bad Reichenhall, a picturesque town dating to Roman times. The town sits just ten miles and a couple of valleys...
The Man Who Taught Us Modern Skiing Georges Joubert studied world-class skiers and translated their winning techniques into lessons that recreational skiers could learn By Ron LeMaster Georges Joubert, a giant in the world of ski coaching and instruction, passed away on...
[caption id="attachment_386" align="alignright" width="160" caption="Maria Bogner, c 1955"][/caption] Maria Bogner introduces sex to skiing By Seth Masia It was fifty years ago. Maria Bogner spent the summer of 1952 figuring out how to cut the maddeningly...
Aspen arts and culture advocate One of the strongest links to the Paepcke era in Aspen ended this week with the death of Merrill Ford on October 24. A close friend of Elizabeth and Walter Paepcke, Merrill was involved in all of the institutions they started here. She...
Richard Spademan was a true believer, a man who found a better way and shared it with the world. Born in 1933 in Detroit, he skied as a teenager at Boyne and attended college and medical school at the University of Michigan. As an intern, he designed and patented a successful...
