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Legends of Showdown · The George Willett years, 1973–2020
2021 Terry Stevenson in Top Rock
2021 Terry Stevenson in Top RockGreat Falls Ski Patrol

Terry Stevenson

Great Falls Ski Patrol, Team 3 — avalanche qualified

Legend of Showdown
Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here
with the Ski Hut by March 1978; on the Great Falls Ski Patrol by February 1980
Years at Showdown
Positions
  • Great Falls Ski Patrol, volunteer — Team 3, under day leader Dave Elmquist
  • The patrol's mountaineering training officer, 1987
  • Head of the Monarch–Neihart Quick Response Unit, 1987
Awards
  • American Red Cross certificate of merit, signed by President Reagan, 1987
  • Blue Merit Award, Great Falls Ski Patrol, 1995
  • Mike Bell Lifetime Service Award, 2004
  • Runner-up, National Outstanding Alumni Award, National Ski Patrol, with the Silver Merit Star, 2021
  • National Ski Patrol number 5883

What they did

12 entries
  1. March 1978Billed as Terry Stevenson of the Ski Hut for a backpacking seminar at Paris Gibson Square in Great Falls
  2. June 1978A Red Cross disaster volunteer and an instructor in first aid, CPR and life saving, photographed turning his pickup into a mobile disaster-services unit
  3. February 1980Of Neihart, and a ski patrolman, as the Great Falls Tribune noted
  4. November 1985A Monarch volunteer firefighter and first-aid instructor, on the canyon's new quick-response system
  5. 14 December 1986With Allan Rabbitt, took the patrol's sled and snowmobile from Showdown to a snowmobile accident off Divide Road
  6. October 1987Received an American Red Cross certificate of merit, signed by President Reagan, with Allan Rabbitt, Dick Nebel and Dick Mosher, for that rescue
  7. October 1987Took part in a Great Falls Ski Patrol lift-evacuation training exercise on the triple chair, with thirty patrollers and trainees
  8. April 1988On the first-place men's team in the Belt Creek Headwaters Relay
  9. December 1989Qualified as an EMT–Intermediate at the Great Falls Vocational-Technical Center
  10. March 1990Placed third in Showdown's six-hole Skolf tournament, with a score of 34
  11. May 1995One of nine patrollers given the Blue Merit Award for life-saving use of their patrol skills
  12. December 2025Named by a former student as one of the people who taught them to ski at Showdown

Photographs

3 in the archive
2021 Terry Stevenson in Top Rock
1990s Terry Stevenson Ski Patrol on top the mountain
1990s Terry Stevenson Ski Patrol on top the mountain

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