Dale Pugh

Ski patroller — and the Banff films, twenty-five years

Legend of Showdown

Born: 8 August 1937, Lewistown, Montana
First skied at Showdown
First worked here
Years at Showdown
Positions: Great Falls Ski Patrol — a thirty-five-year member
Patrol Executive Board, several years
Organiser of the patrol's Banff Mountain Film Festival fundraiser, from the first Great Falls showing in 1994 to 2009
The patrol's spokesman to the Great Falls Tribune, 1996–2008
Awards: Mike Bell Lifetime Service Award, 1999 — one of the first two, with Stan King
National Ski Patrol number 6316

What they did

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28 March 1994The Great Falls Ski Patrol's first Banff mountain film showing, at Great Falls High School, the start of the fundraiser he would run for sixteen years
November 1996Reported the Great Falls Ski Patrol's own statistics to the Great Falls Tribune: fifty members, 900–1,000 days of service, more than 500 years of collective patrolling experience
February 1999As a fellow Ski Bum, set up the fund in Bill Roberts's name that buys the patrol a new toboggan every two or three years; the first was presented at the top of Showdown
November 2000The Banff show's eighth year paid for the patrol's first automatic defibrillator
November 20031,405 people at the Civic Center for the patrol's Banff night, its proceeds buying oxygen and off-area rescue gear
December 2009Handed the Banff festival to Joann Lacey after organising it since its first Great Falls year

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