Joe Taylor

A Neihart boy in 1936, and sixty years of it

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown: 1936, at Kings Hill — one of the original skiers in this area
First worked here: heading the Great Falls Ski Patrol from January 1947
Years at Showdown: 1947–1964
Positions: Head of the ski patrol organised at Kings Hill, January 1947
Great Falls Ski Patrol — fifteen years
Ski patrol, new for the 1963-64 season
Class A racer, Great Falls Ski Club, 1940 and 1941
U.S. Forest Service
Awards: National Ski Patrol member — the earliest named National Ski Patrol member from Great Falls the archive holds, attested March 1946

What they did

8 entries

17 March 1940Sixth of twenty-three in the Great Falls Ski Club downhill, in 1:52.6
1940Third in the Great Falls Ski Club class A slalom, at 2:06, four seconds behind champion Dan Thorson
1940 and 1941On the Great Falls squad for the Anaconda state ski tryouts
January 1941Second in the Neihart selection downhill
1941Class A slalom champion of the Great Falls Ski Club, in 2:01.4; second in the combined
March 1946Attended the National Ski Patrol state meet at Ennis with eight other Great Falls skiers
March 1947Entered the Great Falls Ski Club men's downhill
March 1948Entered the Great Falls Ski Club races

4 documents

Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · pages 1, 19, 21, 40, 58, 67, 69, 74
Jim Hasterlik’s scrapbook Cover, 8 intro leaves, 43 pagesc.1937–1942 · pages 22, 30, 31
Montana Parade “Skiing In Montana”Sunday, 28 January 1962 · page 8
Kings Crier Vol. 1, No. 16 December 1963 · page 12