Re: Montreal native, and Yosemite skiing icon dies at 89

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Montreal native, and Yosemite skiing icon dies at 89
June 17, 2009 07:26PM

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Nic Fiore arrived in Yosemite Valley on a snowy night in 1947 to work as a ski instructor at Yosemite’s Badger Pass. He slogged through three feet of snow to his dormitory, exhausted from the transcontinental train trip from his native Montreal and the following morning met ski school director, Luggi Foeger.

http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/3335

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Frank Furter

Re: Montreal native, and Yosemite skiing icon dies at 89
June 17, 2009 07:32PM

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See Fiore in Vince's post on Firefall with Huell Howser:
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?1,12342,12342#msg-12342

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y_p_w

Re: Montreal native, and Yosemite skiing icon dies at 89
June 17, 2009 07:33PM

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I remember seeing him in a video piece about the Firefall. I think he called down to Camp Curry from Glacier Point.

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Bee

Re: Montreal native, and Yosemite skiing icon dies at 89
June 17, 2009 08:02PM

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Oh, gosh, what an end of a really long era. Yes, Nic was the guy who called down from Glacier. I learned about him from skiing at Badger Pass.