Dick Dailey

Racer, patroller, ski school co-director — and the Eagle Mount cup in his name

Legend of Showdown

Born: 2 January 1938, Great Falls, Montana
First skied at Showdown: racing at Kings Hill by March 1952, as a junior
First worked here: on the Great Falls Ski Patrol at Kings Hill, from the 1963-64 season
Years at Showdown
Positions: Great Falls Ski Patrol — a new patrolman in 1963-64; passed the Senior Patrol test in December 1964
Certified ski instructor at Kings Hill and then Showdown — more than ten years
Kings Hill Ski School — co-director 1969-70, with Wayne Ellington
Trained ski instructors at clinics at ski areas across the Northwest
Eagle Mount adaptive ski volunteer, from its first season at Showdown, 1991-92

What they did

11 entries

March 1952Won the junior downhill at the Great Falls Ski Club's races at Kings Hill, in 1:34, with Mike Bell second
15 March 1953Won the junior division of the club's giant slalom, the first races run on the newly dedicated Throckmorton's Mile, in 3:42.8
27 March 1955Second in the high school men's division of the club's annual races, at seventeen, and pictured in the Great Falls Tribune beside the winner, Mike Bell
17 March 1957Won the high school boys' race at the Great Falls Ski Club's races at Kings Hill, in 1:55, and was second among the senior men, two seconds behind Jim Hasterlik
December 1963Joined the Great Falls Ski Patrol as one of the season's new patrolmen, after the required 26 hours of Red Cross first aid
18 December 1964Passed the Senior Patrol test at Missoula, with Gary Ellington, Tom Cannon and Terry Greene
1969-70Co-director of the Kings Hill Ski School with Wayne Ellington, over a staff of twenty instructors, in a new building on the hill
1991-92A volunteer in Eagle Mount's first season of adaptive skiing at Showdown, named in its thank-you to the mountain in May 1992
By March 2003Eagle Mount was running the Dick Dailey Memorial Cup at Showdown, a ski and snowboard race for four-person teams, the money going to its adaptive ski program
A certified ski instructor at Kings Hill and then Showdown for more than ten years
Travelled to ski areas across the Northwest, training ski instructors at clinics

5 in the archive

5 documents

Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · page 30
Kings Crier Vol. 1, No. 16 December 1963 · page 5
Kings Crier Vol. I, No. IV26 March 1964 · page 1
Kings Crier UnnumberedNovember 1969 · page 3
Ski the Heart of Montana Trail map and area brochure2004–05 season · page 5

Built the Kings Hill Ski School's A-frame building on the hill, 1969 — prefabricated with Wayne Ellington in Wayne's garage in Great Falls
Named for him the Eagle Mount Dick Dailey Memorial Cup, a ski and snowboard race at Showdown for Eagle Mount's adaptive ski program, run by March 2003