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.
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As skiers, we’re motivated by our aspirations. For me, every fall meant heading to a local theater to catch that year’s Warren Miller film often narrated by Warren himself. Films inspire us. Whether or not you have CMH on your heli plan for the spring, ski films take us there in our minds.
In a season that’s like no other, we need to be ready for anything. So, for those days you may need to spend indoors for quarantine, welcome to the Quarantine Ski Film Festival.
What are the best ski films of all time? Certainly it’s in the eye of the beholder. But with the help of some of my Facebook friends, here are a few to think about next time you’re stuck at home for a couple days while it’s dumping outside. Let’s take some time to revisit old friends, and maybe meet a few new ones along the way.