Still Going DownhillLegends of Showdown · The George Willett years, 1973–2020
Laura Tirado
Came from Colombia in 2010 and worked the kitchen, the ticket window, Snow Monsters and the bar
Legend of Showdown
- Born
- First skied at Showdown
- 2010, her first winter in snow
- First worked here
- in the kitchen from 2010
- Years at Showdown
- About seven winters, from 2010
- Positions
- Kitchen, from 2010 — the pizzas and the brownies, in the basement
- Cashier at the kitchen register
- Ticket sales, at the window by the kitchen
- Snow Monsters children's lessons
- Bartender
What they did
4 entries
- Came to Montana from Colombia at twenty, on a J-1 exchange visa, to work in White Sulphur Springs. She had never seen snow
- Met Ben Haugan at the White Sulphur deli where she worked; he invited her up to ski, and she was hired into the Showdown kitchen
- Learned to ski at Showdown, on the days around her shifts
- March 2011Married Evan Haugan, whom she had met behind the Showdown bar on her first visit; they took their wedding pictures by the Showdown sign
In their own words
Photographs
4 in the archive
