Still Going DownhillLegends of Showdown · The Shareholders Era, 1957–1973
Ron Hall
Instructor, coach, and keeper of the photographs
Legend of Showdown
- Born
- 1935
- First skied at Showdown
- 1942
- First worked here
- teaching in the Kings Hill Ski School from December 1960
- Years at Showdown
- Positions
- Board member, Great Falls Ski Club, 1960
- Publicity chairman, Ski Lift, Inc., 1960
- Ski instructor, Kings Hill Ski School, from December 1960
- Ski Tips columnist, the Kings Crier, 1964 and 1965
- Coach, the Great Falls High School ski team, 1963–1971
- Owner of Skier's Edge, which bought Showdown's Pro Shop in May 1992
What they did
3 entries
- Introduced Larry Ginnaty to skiing at Kings Hill
- Won the high-school division of the Great Falls Ski Club's first giant slalom, on Throckmorton's Mile
- Coached the Great Falls High School ski team, which raced the championships on Kings Hill
In their own words
Photographs
6 in the archive
In the papers
6 documents
- Montana Parade “Skiing In Montana”Sunday, 28 January 1962 · page 5
- Kings Crier Vol. 1, No. 217 January 1964 · pages 4, 7
- Kings Crier Vol. II, No. II — price 10¢4 December 1964 · page 2
- Kings Crier Vol. II, No. IV9 February 1965 · page 5
- Kings Crier UnnumberedNovember 1969 · page 2
- Kings Crier Unnumbered — published monthlyOctober 1970 · page 3
Also
- Built kept the first rope tow running, 1942 to the war's end