When the resort opened, it offered three chairlifts and a 63-passenger aerial tramway, which was only recently replaced. The resort boasts the greatest vertical rise (4,139 feet) of any ski area in North America. He retired from the resort in 1992 and died in 1999 at the age of 84.

Smith, who has only an initial for a first name, introduced Brighton Ski Area to skiers by installing a T-bar near what is now the base of the resort. He began skiing in 1924, was president of the Alpine Ski Club in 1940 and a member of the storied 10th Mountain Division of World War II. While stationed in the military in Japan in 1945, Smith built that country's first ski lift in Sapporo. In 1954, he started the Salt Lake County Ski School and helped pioneer the Deseret News Ski School.

He retired in 1972 and passed away in 2001.

Walters-McDonald came onto the ski scene as a competitor. Between 1957 and 1967, she dominated women's skiing, posting impressive finishes in the Intermountain Championships, the Intermountain Junior and Senior National Championships, the Western Regional Championships, the Snow Cup, Roche Cup and Harriman Cup events, the U.S. National Championships and the Olympic Winter Games. She placed 21st in the downhill in the 1964 Games in Innsbruck, Austria, as a member of the U.S. Olympic Team. She served as executive director of the Intermountain Ski Association from 1967 to 1970.

Past inductees include:

2002: Junior Bounous, Zane A. Doyle, Alf M. Engen, Sverre Engen, Karre (Corey) Engen, Gretchen K. Fraser, W. Averell Harriman and S. Joseph (Joe) Quinney.

2003: Stein Eriksen, Bill Briggs and Axel Andreason

2004: Pepi Stiegler, (Mayor) George Watson, Suzy Harris Rytting, Bill Lash, Bill Spencer and Edward L. Scott

2005: Edgar B. Stern Jr., Neil Rafferty, M. Earl Miller, Lou Lorenz, Keith Lange and James R. Gaddis.

2006: Devereaux (Dev) Jennings, Calvin (Cal) McPhie, Marvin A. (Marv) Melville, Richard (Dick) Movitz, Jack N. Reddish, Marthinius (Mark) Strand.

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