Published by admin on Wed, 06/07/2023 - 11:22am
James Thomas Hughes was born in Denver, Colo., Jan. 12, 1953, and spent his childhood in a rural area along the front range of the Colorado Rockies. He started skiing at 5, and was seen a few years later gracefully airborne off of ski jumps with an icy buzz haircut.
As a teen he was a ski patrol and avid hiker, taking his love of these to Grenoble, France, for his senior year of high school as an exchange student. There he climbed many of the Alps to ski down on untouched snow.