Dick Reuter, a member of Kirkwood Mountain Resort, died Monday, July 4, 2011 at the resort, according to a story in the Tahoe Daily. Reuter was 88 years old.
“Dick Reuter was a mountain man’s mountain man,” said Dave Myers, vice president of operation for Kirkwood Mountain Resort. “A real pioneer and tough as nails, Dick basically single-handedly installed chair #11, ‘The Reut’ of which the lift is named after him.” . . . Reuter’s mountain resort career began in the late 1950’s in Squaw Valley after a long career as a trapper and logger in the Lassen Park area, Dalzell said. . . Reuter helped fall trees to clear ski runs at Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley and worked as a ski patrol leader at Squaw Valley during the 1960 Winter Olympics where he met his wife, Jeanne, and started a family.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
[Link: Tahoe Daily News]
