ISHA Awards Banquet Comes to Big Sky Resort, March 22

Because the September-October issue went to press before a scheduling change was announced, that issue reported an inaccurate date for Skiing History Week 2023. The actual dates will be March 21 to March 25—a week earlier than originally scheduled, with better snow.

If you haven’t skied at Big Sky Resort, it should be on your bucket list. It’s the second largest ski area in the United States (after Park City); ISHA dedicates each day to skiing together with old friends and new colleagues. Big Sky Resort is easy to reach: It’s just an hour from Bozeman, with direct flights from both coasts and major mid-continent airports.

Skiing History Week is held annually in partnership with the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. ISHA’s events are as follows:

• March 21, après ski: ISHA Welcome Reception and Vintage Fashion Show
• March 22, après ski: 31st Annual ISHA Awards Banquet
• March 23: Historians’ Colloquium Breakfast (by invitation)
• March 24: Après Ski John Fry Memorial Lecture (special superstar speaker!)
  • Hall of Fame Induction Banquet, Class of 2021
• March 25: ISHA Board of Directors Breakfast and Meeting
  • Hall of Fame Induction Banquet, Class of 2022

For details and booking information, see skiinghistory.org/events.

Welcome to the Website

With this issue we welcome a new class of readers: senior passholders at a select group of resorts. If you’re one of our new print-edition recipients, you may not know about our entertaining, informative and newly updated website, skiinghistory.org. The site contains a vast archive of articles and art about skiing from prehistoric times through the modern era, including all back issues of this magazine and hundreds of additional features. When you visit the website, please sign up for ISHA’s newsletter, emailed monthly, with news of ISHA events and new website content. We also use the newsletter to notify subscribers when a new print issue mails.

Jeff Blumenfeld

Jeff Blumenfeld, a regular contributor to this magazine and since 2017 our vice-president for communication, needs a kidney from a healthy live donor.

Jeff has worked in the ski business since 1972, began writing for SKI magazine in 1980 and over the last five years has written dozens of articles for Skiing History. He serves as president of the North American Snowsports Journalists Association (NASJA) and chairs the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Explorers Club. Jeff has been to Nepal on two cataract missions, volunteered in Antarctica with Students on Ice and written two books—one on voluntourism, the other on expedition funding. For 28 years he’s supported exploration through a free newsletter and website, expeditionnews.com.

Now he needs our help. After a 13-year battle, he learned recently that he’s going to need a kidney transplant from a living donor, otherwise the wait from a deceased donor is five years at least. He passed a battery of tests at University of Colorado Health and has also been registered with Porter Adventist in Denver and the New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine Transplant Center. He’s also been accepted by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation’s nonprofit transplant system.

If you or someone you know might be able to help, please email R25585@Renewal.org or call 718-431-9831 x 209.