Still Going DownhillLegends of Showdown · The George Willett years, 1973–2020
The Paddock Family
Two generations on the patrol — thirty-five years and ten
Legend of Showdown
- Born
- First skied at Showdown
- First worked here
- on the Great Falls Ski Patrol from about 1990
- Years at Showdown
- c.1990–
- Positions
- Mark Paddock — Great Falls Ski Patrol, volunteer, from c.1990
- Bridgett Paddock — Great Falls Ski Patrol, volunteer, from c.2015; instructor; a Northern Division Women's Advisor
- Awards
- Mark Paddock — thirty-five years of service, Great Falls Ski Patrol, 19 July 2025
- Bridgett Paddock — ten years of service, Great Falls Ski Patrol, 19 July 2025
- Bridgett Paddock — Northern Division Outstanding Instructor (non-OEC), Yellow Merit Star, 2021
What they did
5 entries
- 20 September 1980Susy Gebhardt, then working for Showdown Ski Area, married Mark Paddock, a Forest Service man from Billings, at the St. Thomas Youth Camp near Monarch
- December 1985Mark and Susan Paddock were to manage Sun Mountain, the new snow-tubing hill and lodge outside Monarch
- February 2015Mark and Zach Paddock, father and son, ran a toboggan down Glory Hole in a patrol training exercise, after Mark's opening sweep of the mountain
- Mark and Bridgett Paddock: Took part in low-angle rope rescue training with a third patroller
- December 2025Named, with Terry Stevenson and Team 4 of the patrol, by a former student as among those who taught her to ski
In their own words
Photographs
7 in the archive
