2024 Jimmy Hoxter — 50 Year Anniversary AwardGreat Falls Ski Patrol
Jimmy Hoxter
Mountain manager — fifty years on the lifts
Legend of Showdown
Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here
in maintenance from the 1973-74 season
Years at Showdown
1973–
Positions
Maintenance, from the 1973-74 season
Lift maintenance and grooming
Mountain Manager, by 2006
Awards
Golden Wrench Lifts award, International Ski Areas Association, June 2014
Employee of the Week, 12 February 2020
Stealth Bomber Award, 2022
Maintenance Department Employee of the Week, 3 February 2024
Manager of the Year, 2024
A Great Falls Ski Patrol plaque for fifty years of support, 2024
What they did
5 entries
December 1979Photographed giving Showdown's grooming equipment an official inspection, per the Great Falls Tribune
Installed a new gearbox in the double chair
9 September 2006Directed the tower-set of the Sluice Goose Caboose (now Hoxter Express): a helicopter crew and two dozen volunteers flew 23 tower sections into place in about five hours
September 2014Hand-spliced a Showdown haul rope
29 March 2024Honored at a fifty-year anniversary event in the lodge, where the Great Falls Ski Patrol presented a plaque for fifty years of grooming support
In their own words
Photographs
25 in the archive
1978 Triple Chair cement truck, Jimmy Hoxter in white shirt, Joe Pinski in brown shirtGeorge Willett Collection
1978 Triple Chair Construction 1 - Joe Pinski, Jim HoxterGeorge Willett Collection
1978 Triple Chairlift Construction Jim Hoxter and cement truckGeorge Willett Collection
1978 Triple Chairlift Construction Jim Hoxter and othersGeorge Willett Collection
1978 Triple Chairlift Construction Jim Hoxter, Joe Pinski and others setting towerGeorge Willett Collection
1978 Triple Chairlift Construction Jim Hoxter, Joe Pinski setting towerGeorge Willett Collection
1978 Triple Chairlift Construction Joe Pinski and Jim Hoxter landing towerGeorge Willett Collection
1978 Triple Chairlift Construction Joe Pinski, Jim Hoxter walking downGeorge Willett Collection
1978 Triple Chairlift Construction Joe Pinski, Jim HoxterGeorge Willett Collection
1978 Triple Chairlift Construction, Jim HoxterGeorge Willett Collection
1996 Jim Gold, Jimmy HoxterDiane Carter Collection
1997 Jimmy Hoxter at bottom Triple TerminalDiane Carter Collection
2001 Jimmy Hoxter, Joe Pinski, Katie Boedecker — Outside the lodge — Around the fire pitDiane Carter Collection
2014 Jesse Gregory, Jim Hoxter, Jay Zehntner Cable Splicing 2George Willett Collection
2014 Jesse Gregory, Jim Hoxter, Jay Zehtner Cable SplicingGeorge Willett Collection
2014 Jim Hoxter Cable Splicing 5George Willett Collection
2021 George Willett, William Gold, AJ Korselin, Jimmy Hoxter, Jared Burton, Kim Johnson, Bob Berland, Eryn Lansverk, Chris Quinn, Miles Klepper, Connor Klaue, S Facebook Post from 11-18-2021Showdown Facebook Collection
2023 Jimmy Hoxter Facebook Post from 05-21-2023Showdown Facebook Collection
2024 Jimmy Hoxter — Invitation to celebrating Jim Hoxter's 50 year anniversary at King's…Great Falls Ski Patrol
2024 Jimmy Hoxter — 50 Year Anniversary AwardGreat Falls Ski Patrol
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
1990s Joe Pinski, Jimmy Hoxter — Summer CrewGeorge Willett Collection
1990s Snow Groomers, Joe Pinski in front, Jimmy Hoxter in backGeorge Willett Collection
1990s Bob's Bar, Tony Juntunen Jr., George Willett, Margie Willett, Chris Quinn, Idaho Trenberth, Dick Nebel, Jimmy Hoxter?Willett Family Photos
Still Going Downhill
