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- Jim "J.C." Clarke
- Jim “J.C.” Clarke was born circa 1936. Early in life, Clarke was a lifty at Arapaho Basin (aka A Basin). He also worked at Bob Craig’s Ski Tip Lodge near Keystone and A Basin. During the Berlin Crisis from 1958 to 1961, J.C. Clarke served in the US Air Force. In the 1960s, Jim Clarke worked for White River National Forest in summer campground maintenance. In 1961, Clarke was a member of the Breckenridge Ski Patrol. In 1968 – 1969, Clarke surveyed the Lionshead village of Vail. In the 1960s, Clarke also surveyed Meadow Mountain for potential development as a ski hill. Twenty-two chairlifts and two villages were on the drawing table. However, the Meadow Mountain project was abandoned due to serious geologic hazards. In 1970, Clarke helped Pete Seibert design Beaver Creek Ski Area. Between 1982 and 1989, Seibert and Clarke again worked together to design Arrowhead and Bachelor Gulch. From 1992 to 2017, Clarke served as manager of Mountain Star. J.C. Clarke began his remarkable career on Vail Mountain during the inaugural 1962 – 1963 season of Vail. Clarke hired on as one of the original Ski Patrol members. Clarke also helped secure the permits for the Back Bowls on Vail Mountain. Additionally, he worked with the National Forest on their avalanche control program. In 1967, Clarke was named Vail Mountain Planner. In the 1970s, Clarke helped design China Bowl. He also surveyed lift lines, including Chair Seven, studied the water springs and riparian areas in Northeast Bowl, and performed landscape studies in order to create Mongolia Bowl. In 1990, Clarke was a Vail ski school instructor; between 2017 and 2020, Clarke served as a Vail Mountain Ski Host Guide. Jim “J.C.” Clarke retired in 2020. His extraordinary ski professional life spanned six decades. Clarke now volunteers at Colorado Ski and Snowsports Museum and serves on its Board of Directors.
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- Jim Bedford
- Co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival, that began in 1974. The 1974 Denver Post newspaper article noted: "At age 30, Bedford is typical of may of Telluride's new residents. A college graduate (history and political science), he had been a clothing salesman, free-lance artist, TV cameraman, carpet layer and office-supplies salesman, and had knocked around the country, dissatisfied with his life's mission, until he somehow ended up in Telluride and at the Sheridan." Jim Bedford also collaborated with Jerry Greene in the creation of the KOTO radio station, in Telluride, Colorado, according to Media (Feb. 1977). He set up the San Miguel Educational Fund that supported the funding for KOTO (Media, Feb. 1977). Bedford's radio name was B.F. Deal. Jim Bedford also ran the Nugget Theatre for 28 years--(April 2013): https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_e8e0821f-ed8d-5c5b-9a89-e930d4a92e4f.html
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- Jim Blue
- Early settler of Coates Creek area and Pinon Mesa resident. He was a bootlegger. He got into a gun battle over whiskey with Lou Stuart on Glade Park, and was shot and killed. Jim was selling moonshine to the sheep herders working for Lou Stuart, which started the argument.