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Floyd Dupuis

“Fluid Floyd” — Kings Hill's executive director and ski school director, 1960–62

Legend of Showdown
Born
1 May 1921, Woodstock, Vermont
First skied at Showdown
First worked here
spring 1960, hired by Ski Lift, Inc. as executive director of Kings Hill
Years at Showdown
1960–1962
Positions
  • Executive director of Kings Hill for Ski Lift, Inc., spring 1960 to May 1962
  • Director of the Kings Hill Ski School, 1960-61 and 1961-62
  • Chief of course, the second Kings Hill Invitational, March 1962

What they did

11 entries
  1. Spring 1960Hired from Sun Valley by Ski Lift, Inc. as executive director of Kings Hill; the Leader, reporting the ski club's spring banquet, named him as the man who would manage the slopes and direct the ski school the next winter
  2. Summer 1960With his helpers, cleared the fallen timber, logs and underbrush off the runs and burned it, cleared an intermediate area, moved the Poma and fixed up the lodge; the Tribune said the cleared runs would add several weeks to the season
  3. 3 December 1960Opened the ski school with Stub Gendreau, Lee Robinson, Carl Spinti and Ron Hall teaching: two-hour classes for $3, a whole day for $5
  4. January 1961Kings Hill opened midweek, on a Wednesday and a Friday as well as the weekend, with lessons from him as area director
  5. December 1961Kept the hill open every day through the holidays, from 21 December into the New Year, except Christmas Day
  6. 29 January 1962After the Poma cable jumped a tower on a Sunday afternoon: “The pomolift is the best we have to offer at the present time, so let's take care of it.”
  7. 12 February 1962Told the Kiwanis Club that the junior ski program had grown from 86 to 132 in a year, reported a record Sunday crowd of 315, and said it was hoped a chair lift could be installed at Kings Hill
  8. February 1962Named to assist George Montrose, the chief examiner, at the Northern Rocky Mountain instructors' certification exams at Red Lodge
  9. 24 March 1962Set the long, tricky 60-gate course for the second Kings Hill Invitational, seventy racers
  10. 1 May 1962Resigned as executive director, and made no statement about why or about his plans
  11. Came to Kings Hill from the Sun Valley ski school; the area's own brochure called him an early advocate of parallel skiing, working on it as early as 1941, and said many called him Fluid Floyd

Photographs

4 in the archive
Old Brochure - Floyd Dupuis Inside 1
Old Brochure - Floyd Dupuis Inside 2
Old Brochure - Floyd Dupuis Outside 1
Old Brochure - Floyd Dupuis Outside 2

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In the papers

2 documents

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Also

  • Built the homemade midway lift for the intermediate area, patterned after the Pomalift, which replaced a rope tow and first ran in April 1962 — he supervised its building

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