Jake Parchen

Ski school instructor from 2002-03, and one of the men who ran the school through the 2010s

Legend of Showdown

Born: 1981, Fort Benton
First skied at Showdown: at four or five
First worked here: ski school instructor from the 2002-03 season
Years at Showdown: 2002–2020
Positions: Ski school instructor from the 2002-03 season — part-time at first, and on his vacations home from New York
Full-time on the ski school staff from 2008-09
One of the men who ran the ski school in the Ben Haugan years
Snow school supervisor, 2014
On the ski school staff until March 2020

What they did

9 entries

1999Applied to teach in the ski school, then run by Jim Anderson
2002-03Taught his first lesson in the Showdown ski school
2008-09Home from New York, where he had worked on a golf course, for his first full season on the ski school staff
June 2012One of the three men who put out a fire started by a fallen power line at Showdown, before the Neihart Fire Department arrived
January 2014Featured in Signature Montana magazine as one of Showdown's snow school directors
December 2014Showdown's snow school supervisor at the opening of the season, interviewed by the Great Falls Tribune
March 2019A judge at the seventh annual Brock Stokke Bump Off
2019-20His last season on the ski school staff, ending in March 2020
Taught the Great Falls fourth graders who came up the hill on the Ski P.E. programme

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