2024/2025 Spirit of Skiing Award Winners:
DesLauriers Family
Award Ceremony: April 5, 2025 at Bolton Valley, VT
You are invited! Reservations available soon.
McLane/Macomber Families
Award Ceremony: October 2025 at Wildcat, NH
Details TBD
2023 Spirit of Skiing Award Winner: Dr. E. John B. Allen
Dr. E. John B. Allen is the preeminent historian of skiing and a leader across the world in understanding the economy and culture of skiing and snowsports. His scholarship is foundational and essential to the work of other researchers, writers, scholars, and journalists across many decades and continents.
Several of John’s books have won awards and driven how skiers understand their past and present. From Skisport to Skiing, Traveling the Old Ski Tracks of New England, and, most importantly, The Culture and Sport of Skiing are crucial to the body of literature around our sport. The ski museum’s Spirit of Skiing is a small token of ‘thank’ to John.
John has also been a fabulous skier in his own right and is a proclaimed “Aspen Ski Bum, class of ’57.” John and his family have generously created an endowment for the ski museum designed to support continued scholarship and publication. All proceeds from the Spirit of Skiing Award event will go directly to the EJBA Fund.
Previous Spirit of Skiing Award honorees include Kelly Brush Davisson, Phil Gravink, Stan Judge, Anna McIntyre, Alan Fletcher Sr., the Caldwell Family of Nordic skiing, Vermont’s Cochran Family, Cal Conniff, Preston Smith, Tyler Palmer, Bernie Weichsel, George Capaul, Penny Pitou, Herbert Schneider, SE Group, Stein Erickson and Tom Corcoran.