JACKSON — Capt. Ray Gilmore (10th Mountain Division, U.S. Army-Ret.) has been hired as the new director of historic Black Mountain’s ski school.
The school was once directed by late pioneering local ski instructor J. Arthur Doucette, who served in World War II in the Army’s legendary 10th Mountain Division “Ski Troops.”
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