Still Going DownhillLegends of Showdown · The Ski Club years, 1936–1956
Harlan Cory
Club president 1953, and twenty-four seasons of passes
Legend of Showdown
- Born
- 27 August 1920, Helena
- First skied at Showdown
- First worked here
- the ski patrol, January 1947 — one of the ten the National Ski Patrol authorised at Kings Hill that December
- Years at Showdown
- 1947–1958
- Positions
- President, Great Falls Ski Club, installed at the Skier's Spring Fling, 18 April 1953
- Recorder at the club's giant slalom on the newly dedicated Throckmorton's Mile, 15 March 1953
- Great Falls Ski Club board of directors, elected to a two-year term 15 April 1955
- Ski Tow, Inc. stock-subscription committee, one of seven, March 1956
- Director, Ski Lift, Inc., at its filing in July 1956
- Named to work the Great Falls Ski Patrol's Ski Breakfast at the YMCA, March 1957
- Proprietor, Cory's Paint Store, 2303 10th Avenue South, Great Falls, from 1961 — forty-three years
- Great Falls Ski Patrol from January 1947; its leader, 1948–50
- Great Falls Ski Club director from 1948
- A national patrolman, 1951
- Race timer and starter, 1955–58
- Awards
- National Ski Patrol member
What they did
8 entries
- January 1947In the Great Falls Ski Club's Red Cross first-aid class for the National Ski Patrol
- June 1948One of the club's work party that walked a possible new run with the Forest Service
- October 1951Photographed on top of Porphyry Peak with Bill Reynolds, placing the patrol's first-aid chests at the runs
- September 1953As club president, called the Sunday work parties that refinished and wired the lodge and cleared the runs
- 27 December 1953Opened the 1953-54 season with emergency shelters on the slopes, new that year, and the parking lot enlarged
- Personally subscribed one Ski Tow, Inc. class B share at $25, on a five-month instalment
- On seventeen of the Great Falls Ski Bums' first twenty-two annual trips
- Led an eight-man crew cutting ski trail with hand chainsaws in the 1950s, working beside Bill 'Willi' Reynolds
In their own words
Photographs
60 in the archive
In the papers
12 documents
- Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · pages 32, 50
- Ski Tow Incorporated Stock subscriptions — the founding list1956 · page 1
- Kings Crier Vol. II, No. II — price 10¢4 December 1964 · page 10
- Kings Crier Vol. III, No. IIDecember 1965 · page 8
- Kings Crier UnnumberedNovember 1969 · page 5
- Kings Crier UnnumberedDecember 1969 · page 5
- Kings Crier UnnumberedJanuary 1970 · page 5
- Kings Crier Unnumbered — published monthlyOctober 1970 · page 8
- Kings Crier UnnumberedDecember 1970 · page 6
- Kings Crier UnnumberedJanuary 1971 · page 3
- Kings Crier UnnumberedMarch 1971 · page 3
- Kings Crier Unnumbered — last issue of the 1970-71 seasonApril 1971 · page 5
Also
- Built the Pomalift, 1957 — a founding director of Ski Lift, Inc., the company that built it, and one of the seven men who canvassed Great Falls for the capital