Colorado Snowsports Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2026

The Colorado Snowsports Museum and Hall of Fame recently elected five new members.

Trent Bush’s career spans four decades, from positions at Twist and Burton/Analog to leadership roles at Mountain Hardwear, Black Diamond and Artilect. He has driven product design across snowboarding, backcountry skiing and Alpine skiing, shaping innovation that reached the world, including, while he was at Spyder, the U.S. uniform program for the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022.

Tim and Tracey Canaday founded Never Summer Snowboards, one of Colorado’s most successful snowboard brands, which continues to produce boards in its Denver manufacturing facility. The factory has also supported many independent ski companies, including Icelantic, Fat-ypus and High Society. Never Summer began in 1991 when the Canaday brothers relaunched their earlier venture, Swift Snowboards, founded in 1983 in Fort Collins.

Jeffrey Grell’s 1983 invention of the high-back binding revolutionized snowboarding. He later co-founded the Rocky Mountain Snowboard Factory. As a longtime coach, clinician and FIS technical delegate, Grell helped shape the sport in other ways, too. He served as Aspen’s first director of snowboarding, co-authored the PSIA snowboard instruction handbook and created one of the first snowboard instructional videos.

Alan Henceroth has served as chief operating officer of Arapahoe Basin since 2005. Under his leadership, the ski area has undergone significant growth and modernization, including the 400-acre Montezuma Bowl, Black Mountain Lodge, Black Mountain Express chairlift and major guest-service enhancements. Earlier in his career, Henceroth worked as a ski patroller at neighboring Keystone Resort and served as a forest technician with the U.S. Forest Service.

Chris Pappas has been integral in the evolution of Colorado’s snowboarding landscape, distinguishing himself as a pioneer in the sport’s early development and tirelessly working with Colorado ski areas to open their slopes to boarders in the early 1980s. He also served as Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s first snowboard instructor and continues a distinguished career as a coach and mentor. 

Colorado Snowsports Museum Awarded ISHA’s 2025 Museum Grant

The International Skiing History Association awarded its 2025 $5,000 museum grant to the Colorado Snowsports Museum. Located in Vail, Colorado, the museum used the funds to help create Freedom Found, a rotating exhibit on the life and legacy of pioneering filmmaker Warren Miller. The museum hosts upward of 80,000 visitors annually.