2025 Ryan Moran, Ben Demaray, Jimmy Hoxter, Katie Boedecker, Jay Zehntner, Luke Jaraczeski, Dan Kelsey, Emmy Boedecker Facebook Post from 09-17-2025Showdown Facebook Collection
Ben Demaray
Out in the snowcat before sunrise — Employee of the Year, 2021
Legend of Showdown
Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here
Years at Showdown
Positions
Grooming crew and snowcat operator
Maintenance Department
Awards
Employee of the Year, 2021
Employee of the Week, February 2024 — the Maintenance Department, with Jim Hoxter and Ryan Moran
What they did
5 entries
March 2021In the staff's parade of thanks, lined up in the parking lot at the end of the day to thank skiers for coming
January 2023Showdown posted his sunrise photographs from the grooming shift, with a thank-you to him
January 2024On the snow-farming crew that kept the runs in shape through the thin start of the winter
March 2025Showdown's snowcat operator, in the mountain's own words
September 2025With the maintenance crew the morning Peterson Equipment delivered Showdown's pink snowcat
In their own words
Photographs
6 in the archive
2021 Randy "RJ" Jackson, Ben Demaray, Frankie Feeback, Aaron Weissman — Outside the lodge Facebook Post from 03-06-2021Showdown Facebook Collection
2022 Ben Demaray, Ryan Moran — Ripley — Grooming Sunrise Facebook Post from 12-30-2022Showdown Facebook Collection
2023 Ryan Moran, Ben Demaray — Top of Porphyry Peak — Grooming Sunrise Facebook Post from 01-08-2023Showdown Facebook Collection
2023 Ryan Moran, Ben Demaray — Top of Porphyry Peak — Grooming Sunrise Facebook Post from 01-08-2023Showdown Facebook Collection
2025 Ryan Moran, Ben Demaray, Jimmy Hoxter, Katie Boedecker, Jay Zehntner, Luke Jaraczeski, Dan Kelsey, Emmy Boedecker Facebook Post from 09-17-2025Showdown Facebook Collection
2025 Jimmy Hoxter, Evan Clark, Tim Ramsey, April Roth, Amy Porter, Hannah Patrick, Ripliegh Dees, Ryan Moran, Oliver Korslien, Brady Moran, Ben Zehnter, Kianna Facebook Post from 11-11-2025Showdown Facebook Collection
Still Going Downhill
