MOUNTAIN LIFE - Blue Mountains | Winter 2019

38 ML BLUE WINTER 2019 Throughout the years, Beaver Valley’s snow school has been a hotbed of innovation and inspiration. In 1969 Beaver Valley instructors Ron and Barbara Lusher founded and pioneered Canada’s acclaimed Ski Hawks program for blind skiers, receiving an Ontario Special Achievement Sports Award in 1979 among several other accolades. The Ski Hawks continue to visit Beaver Valley annually to this day. In 1996 Beaver Valley supported the establishment of the Ontario Track 3 Ski Program for teaching kids with disabilities to ski. The Track 3 program has been so successful that today it operates out of its own dedicated building at the base of the hill. In celebration of Beaver Valley Ski Club’s 50 th anniversary, a 160 page coffee table book was published last year, full of facts, anecdotes and photos documenting its many milestones. Authored by longtime Club members Barb Black and Arlene Robertson, it is available for purchase from the Beaver Valley Club office. LEFT TOP MogulMania poster. MIDDLE National Team racer Corey Henderson (right) on Beaver Valley’s famed dual slalom course of the 1980s. BOTTOM Promoting night skiing at Beaver Valley in a 1963 advertisement published in the Toronto Telegram . COURTESY BVSC. BELOW Bob Koven hotdogging, 1970s. COURTESY BOB KOVEN