{"id":804275,"date":"2020-02-17T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379049"},"modified":"2020-02-17T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T18:11:35","slug":"peak-performers-nominee-edna-max-dercum-alpine-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/peak-performers-nominee-edna-max-dercum-alpine-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Performers nominee: Edna &amp; Max Dercum, Alpine skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Ski-4-1024x556.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Ski-4-1024x556.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Ski-4-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Ski-4-768x417.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>The Dercum family \u2014 Rolf, from left, Max, Edna and Judy \u2014 celebrate first place finishes at the 1970 National Vet\u2019s Race at Vail. The Dercums founded Arapahoe Basin Ski Area and helped to found Keystone Resort.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Edna Strand Dercum, Summit Historical Society<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: Readers nominated their all-time favorite Summit County athletes for Peak Performers: The Mount Rushmore of Summit County athletes. Voting begins Feb. 23 at <a href=\"http:\/\/summitdaily.com\/peakperformers\">SummitDaily.com\/peakperformers<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nominee<\/strong>: Edna &amp; Max Dercum<br \/><strong>Sport<\/strong>: Alpine skiing<\/p>\n<p>Nominated together, Edna and Max Dercum were not only two of the most trailblazing figures in Summit County sports history but also accomplished competition skiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Dercums co-founded Arapahoe Basin Ski Area and were the driving force behind the founding of Keystone Resort in the early 1970s. Bill Bergman, co-founder of Keystone with the Dercums, has said \u201cnobody had a greater love of skiing than Max Dercum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dercums moved to Colorado\u2019s High Country from Pennsylvania after Max was one of the founding members of the ski team at Cornell University. It was at Penn State University where Max and Edna met via Max\u2019 ski club, where he organized the first Penn State ski championship in 1940 and took the state downhill and slalom titles in 1941.<\/p>\n<p>Dreaming big of a ski mountain out west, the Dercums made their way over Loveland Pass and laid the foundation for what A-Basin has become. As they grew older, the Dercums continued to ski race. Edna, at age 65, was the oldest woman competitor in the world and perennial National Seniors giant-slalom champion.<\/p>\n<p>Edna, who worked as a ski instructor for years, would ski well into her 80s. After decades working most every ski area gig \u2014 including lift operator, ski instructor and patroller \u2014 Max also skied well into his 80s.<\/p>\n<p>The Dercums were inducted into the Colorado and national ski halls of fame. And in 2003, Keystone Mountain was named Dercum Mountain in their honor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/peak-performers-nominee-edna-max-dercum-alpine-skiing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dercum family \u2014 Rolf, from left, Max, Edna and Judy \u2014 celebrate first place finishes at the 1970 National Vet\u2019s Race at Vail. The Dercums founded Arapahoe Basin Ski Area and helped to found Keystone Resort.Courtesy Edna Strand Dercum, Summit Historical Society Editor\u2019s note: Readers nominated their all-time favorite Summit County athletes for Peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 11:35:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}