Co-founder of two of Summit County’s four ski resorts and local legend Max Dercum died Friday, just days shy of his 99th birthday.
Dercum passed away at a retirement home in Evergreen, where he lived, Jefferson County coroners confirmed. It is apparent he died of natural causes.
The champion skier, former forestry professor and visionary, along with his wife, Edna, was among a group of seven who started Arapahoe Basin in 1946 and was the driving force behind the founding of Keystone Resort in the early 1970s.
Remembered by friends as a bubbly, enthusiastic and spirited man, Dercum received his first pair of skis when he was just 6 years old. He fell so in love with the sport that he would eventually move to Colorado from Pennsylvania and become a founding father of the state’s flourishing ski industry.
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