01 Apr Isha Announced Winners of 2025 Awards; Telluride Locals Honored!
Telluride local Susan Dalton has written a series of coffee table books about Western towns and events, including Telluride – and Aspen. In fact it was her “Aspen Journey: Past to Present” that was recently honored.
The International Skiing History Association (ISHA) just announced 2025 book and film award.
Authors and producers will be honored on April 10, 2026, in Snowbird, Utah.
Tickets available for US Ski and Snowboard History Celebration.
Judy Haas
The International Skiing History Association (ISHA) Awards Committee has announced the winners of the 2025 ISHA Awards, honoring the best book and film works of history published or produced this past year. The Awards will be presented during an Award Banquet in Snowbird, Utah, on April 10, 2026.
Lifetime Achievement Award
A Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Junior Bounous of Utah for his lifelong activities promoting skiing and its culture. At 100 years old, Junior is known as a “Pioneer of the American Ski Industry,” and is still skiing.
Junior’s ski career started in 1943 with the Civilian Defense Corps at Timp Haven (now Sundance Mountain Resort), eventually joined Alf Engen in Alta as one of the first certified ski instructors in Utah.
He was one of the earliest American ski school directors at Sugar Bowl, California. Returning to Utah in the 1960s, he was involved in Timp Haven/Sundance Ski Area and helped plan Snowbird, eventually becoming the Director of Skiing at Snowbird, where he developed popular programs for seniors.
Bounous was a founding member of PSIA, served on the board of Far West Ski Instructors’ Association, and contributed to ski media for over 30 years. Junior’s biography,”Junior Bounous and the Joys of Skiing,” written by his granddaughter, Ayja Bounous, won an ISHA Baldur Book Award in 2024.
Ullr Awards:
Presented for a single outstanding contribution or several contributions to skiing’s historical
record in published book form.
• Kandahar 1924-2024: The Original Ski Racing Club, by Adam Ruck
• Orte der Erinnerung im Skisport (Memorable Places in Skiing), by Dr. Markward Herzog
and Annette Hofmann
• American Birkebeiner: The Nation’s Greatest Ski Marathon, by Jerome Poling and the
Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Shishapangma, Skiing the Highline: The Account of the First American Descent from an
8,000-Meter Peak, by Michael Marolt.
Skade Awards
Presented for an outstanding work on regional ski history or a book focused in part on ski history
• “Ski Club Lodge Pioneers 1950-1960: Advocates, Architects and Aficionados,” by Donald Johnston
• “A Town Built By Ski Bums: The Story of Carrabassett Valley, Maine,” by Virginia M. Wright and the Carrabassett Valley History Committee
• “Aspen Journey: Past to Present,” by Susan Dalton with Judy Haas.
• “Jay Peak – Once & future: From its early days to Walter Foeger to today’s 4-season resort,” by Bob Soden
Film Awards
• “Big Mountain Soul: Ski Africa,” Directors Brendan Russo and Cameron Sale; Producers, J.M. Correia and J.M. O’Conner
• “Bill Healy: A Man Who Loved a Mountain,” Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation
• “Mountains Not For Profit,” Teton Gravity Research and Indy Pass
• “Advice for Girls,” Addy Jacobsend and Sara Beam Robbins
• “We’ll Still Be There: The Story of Gold Miner’s Daughter,” Alex Mager
Honorable Mentions
Books:
• “Go to the Start: Life as a World Cup Ski Racer,” by Michael Janyk
• “Skis, Shovels, and Stories: Patrolling Sun Valley in the 1960s,” by Dave Laster
Films:
• “No Blue Hills,” Jake Fay and Adam Weinberg
• “Dancing on the Edge,” Scott Goedkoop, A SCOTT Media House Production
• “Jackson Hole: Layers of Time,” Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
See reviews of the winning books and films in the Media Reviews section of Skiing History
magazine. (skiinghistory.org)
Women in Snowsports Industry Award
Additionally, this year ISHA will present the Women in Snowsports Industry Award to Connie
Nelson of Utah for her role in establishing, building, and directing the Alf Engen Museum in
Park City, Utah.
“Aspen Journey Past to Present,” more:
Per Amazon:
“Aspen Journey – Past to Present” tells the story of the transformation of a pure and pristine valley into a 21st-century mecca for culture and powder skiing. Aspen, Colorado, is like no other place!
An eclectic assortment of graphics, including antique prints, historical photos, old paper memorabilia, and vintage postcards, illustrate this coffee table gift book.
Inside this book, you will find photographs documenting the life, work, and pastimes of the people who settled in Aspen. These stories belong to daring prospectors, brave business entrepreneurs, and ordinary people who wanted to call Aspen’ home.’
They arrived during the mining boom but stayed to sustain Aspen through The Quiet Years. Perhaps they were enchanted by the indescribable essence of Aspen, Colorado – the things that set Aspen apart from so many other cities and towns across the U.S.
The prospectors and miners used skiing as a helpful method of getting around in the snow. Skiing later became a recreation for a small, isolated community blessed with powder snow and soaring mountain peaks. As time progressed, skiing became Aspen’s golden future of prosperity. There were always believers in Aspen’s future as a ski destination. Members of the 10th Mountain Division helped make this a reality.
When Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke created the Aspen Skiing Corporation in 1946, Friedl Pfeiffer became their partner and brought in additional members of the 10th Mountain Division to help. The Paepckes developed Aspen into a summer cultural haven as well.
An extra: Inside, you will find 16 postcards to pull out, send to friends, or share with family. In addition, there is an 8-page fold-out timeline.
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