Loss of a member--SkiSailor

[Tim Hodgson]

I left a message on her obit posted by ADKmel above. I hope it is helps her family and spouse know how many lives she touched.

 

[jimmy]

RIP Laura.

@MaryG introduced us in 2013. We spent that Easter Sunday at Bridger Bowl skiing, talking about her becoming an instructor, laughing and drinking beer with the locals. Laura really became a great instructor in a very short period of time. What a fun, accomplished person and a great skier. The lady could rip.

 

[AmyPJ]

I met Laura in 2014. She had a grin that made me smile and want to hang around her. Online, she was an articulate, passionate persona. I'm glad she was loving life in Big Sky skiing and pushing her boundaries. I can't remember where she posted about doing that couloir, or maybe Ursula posted it, but it was great reading. RIP Laura. I wish I'd had more time to get to know you better.

^^^^ Same here. Same impression from the short time I skied with her that week here in UT. She was just awesome.

 

[Brad J]

So sad to lose a fellow sailor as well as skier. I am sure she has left a big hole in both communities.

 

[Steve]

She and I participated in a few threads together last year, some disagreed with her perspective and she and I PM'd a lot about the way they and she (and I) communicated. She was very frustrated and I supported her. It meant a lot to her and to me. I felt close to her in a way that only can happen in this odd, virtual world of an online forum. There are so many over the years that I've wanted to ski with on epicski and pugski. She's at the top of that list, and now it can never happen.

I know she's making beautiful, effortless turns on the sweetest softest clouds in heaven.

 

[Coach13]

This is sad news indeed. RIP

 

[4ster]

Sad to hear this
RIP Skisailor

 

[Pat AKA mustski]

I also met her in Utah at the diva trip. She had the best wipe out, I have ever seen ... a complete flip and landed on her feet smiling and just kept skiing! The smile was her personal badge I believe.

 

[Tricia]

This tribute video was posted for SkiSailor

 

[VickiK]

It was her birthday recently, I think, and her friend/ski mentor shared that tribute. It made me tear up, and again wish I knew her better.

 

[Tim Hodgson]

And apparently a Life Well Loved.
What Grace.
There are so many messages to absorb from that tribute without words.

 

[Wendy]

Laura’s loss is one of those that you never really get over.

It hits me from time to time, as I move through my days, doing things that Laura also loved.

But I am happy that Laura lived her life to the fullest, and gave so much to others.

 

[Pat AKA mustski]

Dang. I wanted to watch it but it says video unavailable.

 

[kimberlin]

I met Laura at Big Sky a few years ago. Skied with her in a lesson and then she demoed my Z-77s all day while teaching a beginner. "Very turny", she said as i passed her on a cat-track.
On the first day of the trip my "husband" (we're not married ) and I took up to Big Sky, she met us for lunch and skied with us the rest of the day. DH is an excellent skier and went up to the Chutes on top of Lone Mountain with Laura as his guide. The conditions were pretty bad ,and very hard to see. He was quite impressed with her !! She took a picture of him at the top with his phone as he held her skis. The pink K2 Alluvits.
That photo was framed and hanging in the home of DH parents. Just before I had learned of Laura's death I happened to have been in that home and actually stole it from them because I liked the picture so much. Now it sits in my office , bringing a whole new level of respect , beauty, and sadness whenever I look at it.
I hardly knew Laura, did not know she had cancer.
Her death blindsided me.
To be honest, I have been more affected by the deaths of people I hardly knew because in some way, their spirit had touched me in ways I did not realize until after they died.

 

[Tricia]

I am sorry that the youtube video has expired. I'll reach out to the person who posted and see if it can be released.

 

[Tricia]

The tribute video has apparently been taken down but there is this.

 

[Steve]

The video is still available it’s a PugSki problem many of us have often. Open it in the YouTube app or another browser.

youtu.be/vFKJDea_DEE

 

[Jim Kenney]

What impressed my in the video is that this lady flashed some of her biggest smiles in the photos where she was undergoing chemo/medical treatments. Tough cookie!

 

[Tim Hodgson]

Tribute video plays here:



(Tricia thank you for posting it.)

 

[Jim McDonald]

R.I.P. and condolences to all who knew her. Sounds like a great lady, friend, skier, sailor.