Lou Demorest

Surveyed the Little Belt Mountains with the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: with the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Little Belt Mountains, in the mid-1930s
Years at Showdown: mid-1930s–1940
Positions: Civilian Conservation Corps, the Little Belt Mountains — surveying, mid-1930s
Great Falls Ski Club — Rules, Etiquette and Safety Committee, 1940 season

What they did

5 entries

1930sSurveyed in the Little Belt Mountains for the Civilian Conservation Corps, photographed at a plane table on a summit and reading a compass in an old burn
1930sPhotographed on skis near Neihart with men of the CCC, a train rounding the curve on the Neihart line below
1940On the Great Falls Ski Club's Rules, Etiquette and Safety Committee, with Bill Morris, George Prentice, Don Williamson and Russ Hubbard
September 2026His daughter, Janet Demorest, and grandson, Mike Dye, brought his photographs of the CCC years to Showdown
Photographed at a University of Montana forestry gathering, among men from across Montana and Wyoming