General images

File — Box: 1, Folder: 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

1-6: In 1962 Alvin, along with his brother-in-law, Jack Lucas, constructed what would be the first day lodge at the fisrt ski left that Alvin would build. The lift and lodge were at the bottom of Wolf Creek Canyon. There is now a subdivision at this site. Alvin's home is about one half block North of the site.
7: Day pass from the first ski lift Alvin owned and operated, Wolf Creek ski lift.
8-9: Construction of top terminal site of the Timberline Lift, 1971. Employees of the resort installed the Sundown, Timberline, and Hidden Lake lifts. Thiokol Chemical Corporation, out of Logan, Utah, manufactured Sundown and Timberline lifts. Timberline was the first triple chair lift installed in Utah. Alvin had operations experience and often worked the cranes and dozers during installation.
10-12: Construction and delivery of the Sundown Lift, 1971
13-14: Sundown Lift, first day of operation. February 19, 1972. Sprite Snowcat in the picture is the snowcat that was used for the Snowcat run layouts and tours before the area opened.
15: Alvin and June Cobabe standing at the construction site of the Powder Mountain Lodge, Spring of 1972. They were at a closing employee part, duplicate of folder 1, item 3.
16: Construction of the Powder Mountain Lodge, Spring of 1972, duplicate of folder 1, item 2.
17: A lift operator loading Sundown Lift, February 1972
18: Alvin getting ready to go heli-skiing off James Peak, mid 1980s
19: Alvin standing on top of Sunrise Platter tow, mid 1990s
20: Alvin and June Cobabe showing friends around Hidden Lake Lift Area
21: Alvin and June Cobabe standing on stairs of the new Hidden Lake Lodge, 1985
22: Alvin and daughter Aleta, and June christening the Paradise Lift, Fall of 1999.
23: Alvin at the sheep camp at age 2 or 3. Camp was set up at the bottom of Wolf Creek Canyon. Also in the picture is his sister and two of the herders.
24: Alvin, in his early 20s, out on the summer range just off what is now Drifter Run at Powder Mountain. Alvin is leaning against a drift fence, which was designed to separate cattle from sheep (the sheep can get under it, but the cattle cannot).
25: Alvin in the mid 1980s
26: Top of the rope tow at Wolf Creek, "A frame" at the bottom of the hill, Note the lack of development toward Liberty and what would become Nordic Valley. Fall of 1962
27-28: Skiiers at the tow at Wolf Creek, Winter 1963

Dates

1962-1999

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