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75 Year Celebration of
Snowsport History
in the
Far West region!

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2007 Aspen

Mary Manning, Aspen
Randy Lew
Aspen
Aspen 2007

 
2006 Big White

Big White
Jane Wyckoff
Jim Loyd,
Big White
Breckenridge 2006

 2005 Breckenridge

Julie Chandler
Breckenridge 2005
Richard Kun
(President Snow Summit and stepson of the late Tommi Tyndall)

 

Tommi Tyndall FWSA Award

Tommi Tyndall was a prominent force in the promotion of winter sports in the Big Bear area during the late 40s, the 50s and early 60s. He was a one-man whirlwind where skiing was concerned.

Tommi came to the US from Dresden, Germany, in 1939 to demonstrate his father’s machinery at the NY World’s Fair. With the outbreak of WWII, he stayed in the US and joined the Navy. His first paying job in the US was teaching skiing at Sun Valley. He became an American citizen in 1949.

In 1946, he was among the first member of the California Ski Instructors Association. He developed and supervised a group of instructors who formed the Big Bear Ski School. In 1949, he founded the Big Bear Winter Club and hosted Big Bear’s first Winter Carnival.

In 1952, Tommi opened Snow Summit with a mile-long double chair, two major ski runs and several rope tows. In 1961, after a few draught years, Tommi undertook the construction of a major snow making system at Snow Summit, which would be the largest in Southern California upon its completion in 1964.

At age 54, Tommi died in a tractor accident while grooming his beloved mountain.

The Tommi Tyndall Award is given to the ski area or ski area operator who has made a distinguished contribution to skiing in the past year or in prior years.

Year  Awardee
2018 Sugar Bowl, CA
2017 Sports America Tours
2016 Telluride, CO
2015 Whitefish Mountain, MT
2014 Mt. Hood, OR
2013 Mt. Bachelor, OR
2012 Big White Ski Resort / Silver Star Mountain Resort, BC, Canada
2011 Alpine Meadows, CA
2010 Mammoth Mountain, CA
2009 Big Sky, MT
2008 Vail Resorts
2007 Aspen Skiing Company
2006 Big White Ski Resort, BC, Canada
2005 Breckenridge Ski Resort
2004 Ogden/Weber Convention Visitors Bureau
2003 Big Mountain Resort
2002 Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau
2001 Silver Star Mountain Resort, BC, Canada
2000 Park City Mountain Resort
1999 Ski New Mexico
1998 Aspen Skiing Company
1997 Lake Louise Ski Area
1996 Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau
1995 Boreal Ski Company
1994 Park City Ski Area
1993 Northstar-at-Tahoe
1992 Mammoth Race Department
1991 Bear Mountain Ski Resort
1990 Mt. Bachelor Ski & Summer Resort
1989 Vail / Beaver Creek
1988 Steamboat
1987 Crested Butte Mountain Resort
1986 Mammoth Mountain
1985 Mt. Reba / Bear Valley
1984 Snow Forest
1983 Mountain High
1982 Mammoth Ski Touring Center
1981 Mt. Rose
1980 Alpine Meadows / Nick Badami
1979 Boreal Ridge
1978 Snow Summit / Jo (Tyndall) Alexander
1977 Mountain High
1976 Heavenly Valley
1975 Mt. Reba / Bear Valley
1974 Kirkwood Meadows
1973 Yosemite Mountaineering School
1972 Boreal Ridge
1971 Mammoth Mountain / Dave McCoy
1970 Mt. Rose
1969 Mt. Reba / Bear Valley
1968 not awarded
1967 Mammoth Mountain
1966 Alpine Meadows

TopHistoryFormationTimelineAwards

Hans GeorgSchatzi WoodJ. Stanley MullinJimmie Heuga
Jordan-ReilyTommi TyndallBill MackeyBill BerryWarren Miller
President'sMan & Woman of YearSnowbuilders Award

Club of YearClub PublicationsClub WebCouncil
Terry SmithJoe RossSki Week Council • Skier of Week •
SportsfestSafetyHistoryCharityClub/Council History


 
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Tommi Tyndall with Skis

Tommi Tyndall
Nov. 1910 -
Dec. 27, 1964
photo courtesy Snow Summit

2003 Big Mountain

Jane Wyckoff
Dori Hamilton
Grouse Mountain Lodge
Ginny Gormley 2003
Big Mountain Resort

2001 Silver Star

Jane Wyckoff
Gord Vizzutti
2001
Silver Star Mtn. Resort

2000 Park City

Park City Mtn. Resort 2000

1998 Vail

1989 Chuck Morse, right receives award for Vail

 

 

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