Lou Demorest

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

Legend of Showdown

Born: 17 September 1910, Chicago
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: with the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Little Belt Mountains, in the mid-1930s
Years at Showdown: 1937–1941
Positions: Forestry graduate, University of Montana, 1937
US Forest Service, Lewis and Clark National Forest — fire-protection planning, 1938; at Neihart, 1939–40
Foreman at the CCC camp at Neihart, 1940
Civilian Conservation Corps, the Little Belt Mountains — surveying
Great Falls Ski Club — Rules, Etiquette and Safety Committee, 1940 season
After Montana: U.S. Soil Conservation Service, Wyoming, c.1941–1965
After Montana: organiser and first leader of the Casper Mountain Ski Patrol, 1959–60; National Ski Patrol regional chairman, Northern Rocky Mountain Division, 1961-62

What they did

9 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
1937Took his forestry degree at Missoula, applied for in February 1937
1939With the United States Forest Service at Neihart
December 1940A foreman at the CCC camp at Neihart, with Frank Russell, as the Great Falls Tribune reported
1940On the Great Falls Ski Club's Rules, Etiquette and Safety Committee, with Bill Morris, George Prentice, Don Williamson and Russ Hubbard
1959–60After Montana, organised the Casper Mountain Ski Patrol in Wyoming and became its first leader
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