If you’ve read the book or seen the film The Other Side of the Mountain, you know about California teenaged ski racer, Jill Kinmont, who suffered a catastrophic injury in a high-speed giant slalom at Alta, Utah, which left her in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Jill...
SALT LAKE CITY -- Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke, 29, died Jan. 19, nine days after crashing in the superpipe during a training run at Park City, Utah. Burke, a four-times X-Games champion, ruptured an artery in her neck. She then sustained "irreversible damage to her...
(US Ski Team relase, Dec. 20) – The U.S. Ski Team is mourning the loss of Warren Hellman, one of its former leaders and visionaries. Hellman, who passed away Sunday, Dec. 18, at the age of 77, was a pivotal leader of the Team during the early stages of its rise to greatness in...
Robert L. Ferguson of Osterville, Mass. passed away peacefully with his family beside him on Dec. 11, 2011 from complications of pneumonia. Bob was born in Jamestown, N.D. on Dec. 7, 1932, son of the late Clifford and Gertrude (May) Ferguson. He was raised in Minneapolis and...
Roger Buchika, 67, of Atkinson, N.H., died peacefully on Sunday, December 18, his loved ones by his side. He was the beloved husband of Jane (Mallen) with whom he shared 26 years of marriage, and was the cherished son of Gertrude (Tessier) and the late George Buchika. Roger...
Bonnie Prudden, the fitness pioneer who influenced physical education for millions of American kids, passed away at her home in Tucson on December 11, 2011. She was 97. “You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again,” she told her students and patients,...
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...
