[9][10][11][12] Future Olympic gold medalist Gretchen Fraser (née Kunigk), then 18, won the women's slalom.

[13] The ski area was originally on the west side of the mountain with rope tows and operated the world's first double chairlift in 1947,[14] converted from a mine tramway from Wallace, Idaho,[15] with a lodge built by the CCC the late 1930s.

[36] The majority owner of the Mount Spokane Chairlift, Inc. was founder Al E. Mettler (1902–1985),[37] who sold his interest in 1970 to Rock E.

[38] Six years later, Caley filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy[39] and the ski area assets were sold to a creditor, Riblet Tramway Company of Spokane.

[40][41][42] Mettler returned in March 1976, as interim general manager for a few months,[43] relieved by Keith Petrie, previously at Anthony Lakes in eastern Oregon.