US Chef Ski Club to Discuss Legacy - 9 August 2024

The founding members of the U.S. Chef Ski Club, Jacky Ruette, Jean Pierre Foucart, Gerard Uhrik, and friends of the club, will sit down with Town of Hunter Supervisor, Sean Mahoney to discuss their 50-year legacy at Hunter Mountain and around the world.

The U.S. Chef SKi Club was first sparked by the first chefs race on Hunter Mountain in 1975. Karl Plattner, Hunter Mountain ski school instructor, Jacky Ruette, Hunter Mountain Blue Angels ski instructor and restauranter, Chef André Soltner of Lutèce, and Pastry Chef extraordinaire Michel Keller, organized the event. They invited their New York City hospitality colleagues to Hunter Mountain to race in honor of their friend, Jacques Pépin, who had been in a devastating vehicle accident. And as they say, the rest is history.

The panel will discuss their history as a club, as friends and colleagues in the hospitality industry, and as mountain top community members. This group witnessed and influenced the boom of the ski culture at Hunter Mountain and carries on a long tradition of tourism and hospitality in the Catskill Mountains. We look forward to learning more about them and help them begin their celebration of 50 years of "Camaraderie, Hospitality, and Skiing." You can also read a bit about them in our Summer 2023 Hemlock, on our website, https://mths.org/the-hemlock/

This program will take place at the MTHS’s Ulster & Delaware Train Station.