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1938 Board of Directors: Left to right taken in their positions around the table:
OUTSIDE OF TABLE: Unidentifled; Unidentified; George Deibert, Eastern Sierra;
Carl Tellefson, Viking; Ralph Gilbertson, Viking; Roy Mikkelsen, Auburn;
Dave Johnson, Viking; Bob Sturuble, Los Angeles; Bill Hersey, Los Angeles
(Treasurer); James F. Connell, Yosemite (President); C. Edmunds, Truckee;
Harlow Dormer, Big Pines; Ralph A. Jones, Sonora; Lois Jones, Sonora; Henry
Fine, Sonora; Frank Wallace, Stockton; Yvonne Blossom, Stockton; Dick
Mitchell, Reno. INSIDE OF TABLE: Lloyd Henley, Fresno; John White, Sierra;
W.A. McCandless, Merced; Don Du Pertis, Merced; Roger Hines, Mt. Shasta;
Fred Meckel, Sierra; W.H. Carr, Yosemite; O. Kehrlein, Sierra; Ben Tarnutzer,
Yosemite; William McK. Stensaas, Modesto (Secretary); Tom Gallery,
(Promoter); Jack Hanson, Arrowhead. source unknown

lier sites improved with upski capability. FWSA's Competition Committees were busy scheduling
and planning events and qualifying and selecting officials. Competition was a primary focus of the
organization from its beginning. It provided sanctioned events for aspiring racers and attracted more
attention to skiing. The main objective of competition programs, its officials and coaches, was and is
to prepare racers for regional, national and international races.
Far West worked to standardize ski instruction and certification of instructors. Membership
grew well past 80 clubs. A professional staff was authorized by the delegates to the 1946 annual
meeting. Dues paying clubs in the Far West Ski Association (FWSA) (the name was changed in 1947 from
CSA) grew to 80 by 1956.
The Association got deeply involved in its area development mission. It was the only regional
association with area development as an integral part of its organization. Ski area development
necessarily involved the use of public lands in California and that meant a partnership with the
US Forest Service. Owing in large part to the position of FWSA and its members, the Forest Service
accepted concepts for skiing on San Gorgonio; at least three plans were put forward from the 1930s
until it went into Wilderness classification in 1964. In 1949, the US Forest Service solicited ideas for
the development of Mineral King. Mineral King had been cited by many who had explored it as
having great potential for skiing. One of those explorers was the future Executive Director of the
Sierra Club. The proposal by Disney for Mineral King was submitted to the US Forest Service in
1965.

Ski Area

State

Year
Opened

Homewood Mountain Resort
Vail Mountain
June Mountain
Lee Canyon
Meadowlark Ski Lodge
Park City Mountain Resort
Pomerelle Mountain Resort
Schweitzer Mountain Resort
Ski Cloudcroft
Steamboat Ski & Resort
Boreal Mountain Resort
Mt. Ashland
Mt. Rose - Ski Tahoe
Brian Head Resort
Lake City Ski Hill
Purgatory Resort
Test Ski Area
Angel Fire Resort
Diamond Peak Ski Resort
Great Bear Ski Valley
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
Mission Ridge Ski & Board
Resort
Powderhorn Mountain Resort
Sunlight Mountain Resort
Bear Valley Mountain
Snowmass
Mt. Hood Meadows
Sierra-at-Tahoe LLC
Silver Mountain Ski and Year
Round Waterpark Resort
Grand Targhee Resort
Sundance
Keystone Resort
Nordic Valley
Royal Gorge Cross Country
Ski Resort
Snowbird Ski &
Summer Resort
Copper Mountain Resort
Kirkwood Mountain Resort
Northstar California
Powder Mountain
Sunrise Park Resort
Tahoe Donner Ski Area
Telluride Ski & Golf Resort
Big Sky Resort
Discovery Ski Area
Eaglecrest Ski Area
Ski Bluewood
Beaver Creek Resort
Deer Valley Resort Company
Ski Granby Ranch
Hilltop Ski Area
Mt. Shasta Ski Park
Yellowstone Mountain Club
Deer Crest Home Owners
Association Private Trails
Silverton Mountain
Tamarack Resort
Echo Mountain Resort
Frisco Adventure Park
Cherry Peak Resort

CA
CO
CA
NV
WY
UT
ID
ID
NM
CO
CA
OR
NV
UT
CO
CO
CO
NM
NV
SD
WY

1962
1962
1963
1963
1963
1963
1963
1963
1963
1963
1964
1964
1964
1965
1965
1965
1965
1966
1966
1966
1966

WA
CO
CO
CA
CO
OR
CA

1966
1966
1966
1967
1967
1968
1968

ID
WY
UT
CO
UT

1968
1969
1969
1970
1970

1971

UT
CO
CA
CA
UT
AZ
CA
CO
MT
MT
AK
WA
CO
UT
CO
AK
CA
MT

1971
1972
1972
1972
1972
1972
1972
1972
1973
1973
1975
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1985
1997

UT
CO
ID
CO
CO
UT

2000
2001
2004
2005
2011
2015

All of the dates NSAA have listed are
given to them by the resort or ski area.
Every season during membership renewal,
they ask the ski area applicant to update
their information, which includes their
" founding " date. Western Ski Resorts from National
Ski Areas Association (NSAA) list of resort founding
years - used with NSAA permission.

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