Still Going DownhillLegends of Showdown · The Shareholders Era, 1957–1973
The Mosher Family
Patrol, ski school and ski shop — three generations
Legend of Showdown
- Years at Showdown
- 1968–2026
The Legends
Dick and Carol Mosher
A patrol and a ski school in one household — Papa Dick and Mama Carol
- Born
- First skied at Showdown
- First worked here
- Dick, on the Great Falls Ski Patrol from about 1968
- Years at Showdown
- Dick, about 1968–2021 · Carol, from the late 1960s
- Positions
- Dick — Great Falls Ski Patrol from about 1968; several seasons as a pro patroller; team leader and day leader
- Dick — summers on the mountain crew with Joe Pinski
- Carol — schoolteacher, and a ski instructor famous for teaching hundreds of Great Falls children to ski
- Carol — a few years in Showdown's children's programme
- Awards
- Dick — National Ski Patrol Appointment, May 1992, for 24 years of patrolling
- Dick — Mike Bell Lifetime Service Award, 2000
What they did
- Late 1960sCarol teaches a struggling twelve-year-old, Chris Quinn, to snowplough on the old Mizpah Poma, then drives him to the hill for years
- Dick served more than thirty-five years on the Great Falls Ski Patrol, several of them as a pro patroller
- Dick worked summers on the mountain crew with Joe Pinski
- Carol, a schoolteacher, also taught in Showdown's children's programme for a few years
- Dick and Carol were Papa Dick and Mama Carol to the many Showdown friends who stayed with them
Scott Mosher
Fifty-eight winters without a miss — the ski shop, Team Extreme and the Youth Snow League
- Born
- 1958
- First skied at Showdown
- 1968, aged ten, on the learning-area rope tow
- First worked here
- on the summer mountain crew, as a boy
- Years at Showdown
- 1968–2026
- Positions
- Summer mountain crew as a boy, cutting trees for the race team
- Co-owner of Wu Tung's, with Idaho Trenberth
- Ran Showdown's ski shop from the early 1980s — boot fitting, custom insoles, a guaranteed fit
- Managed the shop for Skier's Edge after the 1992 sale
- Team Extreme coach, 2000s
- Head of the Youth Snow League since the 2000s
What they did
- First skis Showdown, aged ten, on the learning-area rope tow; he has not missed a winter since
- Early 1980sStarts running Showdown's ski shop, first beside the rental shop and later downstairs
- Is married on the mountain
- May 1992Showdown sells its ski shop to Skier's Edge; he stays on to manage it for the new owners
- 2000sCoaches Team Extreme while his daughters are on the team
- Since the 2000sRuns the Youth Snow League, eight weeks every winter; under him it has grown from about a hundred children to nearly three hundred
- As boys, he and his brother Mark spent their summers on the mountain crew under Joe Pinski, cutting trees on Big Seven for the race team
- With Idaho Trenberth, owned Wu Tung's, the Great Falls ski and tennis shop that also kept a shop at the lodge
About
Dick and Carol; sons Scott, Mark, Mike, daughter in-law Cheri; grand kids, Matthew, Michael, Carley, Amy (husband, Jakob); great grand kids, Rylee and Blakely.
In their own words
Photographs
55 in the archive
In the papers
1 document
- The Showdowner Fall of 90 IssueFall 1990 · pages 5, 6