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Ninety years, decade by decade

Every photograph the archive holds, laid out by the decade it comes from — 11,934 of them, from before there was a ski area in the Little Belt Mountains to last winter. The mountain was Kings Hill until 1973 and Showdown after it, and the pages are named accordingly. If you are looking for a person, a run or an event by name, the search on the front page reads all of them at once.

1916 A brown bear shot at the road camp
Before the hillThe 1910s

28 photographs

1921 Forest Service negative sleeve for the Neihart Road car photograph
Before the hillThe 1920s

4 photographs

1935 First lookout tower on porphyry peak being constructed
Kings HillThe 1930s

63 photographs

1938 Skiers at the top of the pass - Donated by Donna Wahlberg
Kings HillThe 1940s

141 photographs

1950 Older kids guiding younger kid learning how to ski near lodge
Kings HillThe 1950s

119 photographs

1960 Bottom of Bovey Not good print
Kings HillThe 1960s

295 photographs

1970 A Scene
Kings Hill, and then ShowdownThe 1970s

447 photographs

1981 Margie Willett — Disneyland
Showdown Ski AreaThe 1980s

449 photographs

1990 Dick Nebel, Charley Willett
Showdown Ski AreaThe 1990s

1,162 photographs

2000 The Bar
Showdown MontanaThe 2000s

754 photographs

2010 Ben Haugan — On the Mountain — explaining the game to YSL kids
Showdown MontanaThe 2010s

5,712 photographs

2020 Banked Slalom Competition Facebook Post from 02-18-2020
Showdown MontanaThe 2020s

2,439 photographs

A cabin under a snow cornice
Kings Hill and ShowdownUndated

321 photographs

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