Ski town keeps evolving as resort turns 75
A view of Whitefish and the Flathead Valley from Big Mountain. (Photo by Marion Lacy, courtesy of Whitefish Mountain Resort)
Downtown Whitefish Montana as it appeared in the 1950s, when the Big Mountain ski resort was just getting going. (Photo courtesy of Stumptown Historical Society archives)
Karl Schenck remembers the first time his father put him to work on Big Mountain, as a bellhop at the chalet, when he was only eight years old.
“‘Put on your nice pants and come to work with me,’” he recalls his father Ed saying...
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