Bud Marolt
The eldest of the trio of Marolt brothers from Aspen, Bud Marolt was an accomplished ski racer, winning the 1950 Rocky Mountain Downhill, Slalom and Combined Championships and forerunning the 1950 FIS World Championships in Aspen. He created the Loveland Ski School’s children’s ski programs that brought 2,500 kids from Denver to ski each winter. Marolt also founded the Loveland Basin Ski Club and established the Loveland Derby, the oldest amateur ski race in the U.S.