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MIKE ABBOTT recently Weekend at BEAVER CREEK, CO. Several of SOS’s high school
joined the new Inntopia students had the chance to meet with industry leaders from
DevOps team based in Vail Resorts; racers; patrollers; and VPs from Smartwool,
Burlington as a software Spyder, and HEAD to discuss career opportunities
engineer. Previously and challenges.
Mike Abbott Grace Whittle Abbott was a programmer
at MyWebGrocer. GRACE WHITTLE is a new account manager Altruism
for Marketing Cloud in Inntopia’s Edwards, CO, office. SUNDAY RIVER, ME,
Whittle previously was with the marketing brand teams at held its 19th annual
Beaver Creek and Vail Mountain, CO. Courtesy of Sunday River Santa Sunday event in
December, with more
LEITNER POMA recently installed the highest 3S, tricable than 200 skiing Santas
gondola lift in the world, on the Klein Matterhorn overlooking hitting the slopes to
Zermatt, Switzerland. The 4-kilometer ride climbs almost raise money for a good
4,000 meters (13,123 feet) above sea level to Europe’s highest cause. For a minimum
top station. The Swiss ski resort invested $55 million in $20 donation, Santas
the project. Santas at Sunday River, ME hit the slopes to raise a
record-breaking $4,000 for the nonprofit The River Fund,
Associations which supports youth to unleash their potential through
THE US SKI & SNOWBOARD HALL OF FAME will formally induct education and recreation. MOUNTAIN HIGH RESORT, CA, also
its class of 2018 on April 6 in Salt Lake City, UT—the held its fourth annual Santa Sunday in December, with $20
culmination of a three-day “Snowsport History Celebration” lift tickets, to raise money for Protect Our Winters (POW),
hosted by PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORT. The eight noted skiing which provides the snowsports community with educational
and snowboarding pioneers, athletes, and sport builders are initiatives, advocacy, and community-based activism in the
HILARY ENGISCH-KLEIN, a world-dominating freestyle skier; fight against climate change.
the late DON HENDERSON, a pioneer of ski racing; WILLIAM
JENSEN, nationally renowned resort operator; TOM KELLY, Passings
the leading spokesperson for US Ski & Snowboard; DAVE KENNEY passed away October 4, 2018,
BODE MILLER, five-time Alpine Skiing Olympian; the late in Dedham, MA, at the age of 88. Kenney
TOM SIMS, inventor of the “skiboard”; KRISTIN ULMER, known had worked for the Department of Public
as the first female extreme skier; and ANDREW WEIBRECHT, Safety for 48 years as an elevator examiner
two-time Alpine Skiing Olympian. and then on the Tramway Board. He devel-
oped and ran the annual Lift Maintenance Seminars for the
SOS OUTREACH is celebrating its 25th year of programs Massachusetts Ski Association from its inception in 1978.
designed to empower at-risk youth to access recreation and He was the recipient of several prestigious awards from the
resources to achieve their optimal potential through leadership ski industry, including the Sherwin Adams Award and the Specialty rehab for
development, adult mentorship, and outdoor adventure. Rocky Mountain Lift Association Award. Survivors include people with spinal cord
The nonprofit kicked off the season with Industry Day four children; 11 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren;
on December 2 during the Audi Birds of Prey World Cup and three siblings. and brain injuries

Courtesy of SOS Outreach LES OKREGLAK passed away September 1,
2018, after a private battle with cancer over
the past few years. He was 81. Originally
from Poland, Okreglak was a longtime
member of the ANSI B77 Standards
Committee and also OITAF, the international ropeway
congress. He worked for many years at Lift Engineering
in Carson City, NV, before starting his own consultancy,
POL-X West Inc., also in Carson City. Survivors include
L to R: Olympian Jared Goldberg; Scott Bowers, Smartwool; Drew Dodd, Beaver Creek
Ski Patrol; Brook Carlsen, SOS; Erick Corral, Kevin Vasquez, Alex Menech, and Seth
craighospital.org
Bretta, SOS participants; Brady Collings and Drew Roberts, Spyder his wife, Cecylia; two children; and four grandchildren.
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