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90 Years and Still Going Downhill

90 Years and Still Going Downhill — Showdown Montana

A random walk through the archive

Ten photographs drawn at random from every decade the archive holds — oldest first. Shuffle for ten more.

The morning check

Kings Hill · 7,900 ft

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reading the forecast… 


This is a forecast, not a snow report. Nobody here measures the hill — for what is actually on the ground, and whether the lifts are turning, go to Showdown.

From the archive

On this day at Kings Hill

looking…

Where to go


three ways in
1966 — Cindy Hall mid-jump, arms in the air 1966 · Cindy Hall Anything, anyone, anytime.
2,327 photographsThe Photographs

Search the whole archive by name, year, run or event — 1936 to now, oldest first. Everything the family, the club and the mountain kept.

Search the archive
The masthead of the Fall of 90 Showdowner newsletter 1990 · The Showdowner Every word, on every page.
87 pages, fully searchableThe Reading Room

Showdown's own newsletters, a 1962 magazine that gave a whole issue to skiing in Montana, and a founding-era skier's scrapbook — search the words printed inside them, not just the labels.

Read the paper
A 1967-68 Kings Hill Ski Area season pass 1967-68 · Harlan Cory Who kept the most?
The season-pass drawing90 Passes

Every old Showdown and Kings Hill season pass anybody kept, photographed and on the wall — and every pass you send in is another chance in the April 1, 2027 drawing.

See the passes
The 1939 Ski Club early members, skis crossed 1939 · the Ski Club In their own words.
Everyone who sent something inThe Peoples Page

Every person who has sent a photograph or a story to the project, each with their own page — what they sent, and everything they wrote about it in their own words.

Meet the people

Kings Hill opened in the Little Belts in 1936 and never stopped. This is everything the archive holds — the photographs, the people who sent them in, the passes they kept, and a game about the hill itself.