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The many families of David Gorsuch on Monday filled the covered seating at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater.
Those families children, grandchildren, former and current employees and those from the skiing world turned out to honor the memory of one of the pioneers of the American ski industry, and a pioneer of the Vail community.
The memorial started before the gates opened, with handshakes, hugs and fond memories shared under the canopy at the amphitheater’s entrance.
As those in the crowd found their seats, alphorns began playing “Amazing Grace.”
Helmut Fricker and another alpenhorn player salute Dave Gorsuch on Monday at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail.
Dave Gorsuch embodied the mountain life
It was a gorgeous winter evening as a young boy joined his father on the T-bar at Chalk Mountain outside Climax, Colo. When they reached the top at around 12,000 feet, a full moon was creeping up over the ridgeline. They looked back down at the majestic floodlit slope. After a moment, dad skied over to the lift shack and flipped a switch, turning off the lights and flipping on the moonlight for a father-son cruise down the backside of the mountain to their home.
Such was life for young David Gorsuch. His father, Jack, was one of those ski area pioneers who bootstrapped lifts onto mountains and introduced a passionate generation to the sport of skiing. Young David would go on to become one of America’s great ski racers and forge a lifelong relationship with the love of his life, skier Renie Cox, as icons of the retail ski industry with the Gorsuch brand.