Former Deer Valley owner Edgar Stern dies

Edgar Stern, who transformed Park City Mountain Resort and later founded nearby Deer Valley Resort in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, died Sunday at age 86 in Seattle.

EDGAR STERN, who transformed Park City Mountain Resort and later founded nearby Deer Valley Resort in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, died Sunday at age 86 in Seattle.
    Stern was a tremendous supporter of ski racing and was involved in bringing the U.S. Ski Team to Park City in 1973 as part of a training center project. Park City has been the home of the U.S. Ski Team ever since. As the owner of Deer Valley Resort, Stern welcomed freestyle competition and made the annual World Cup the favorite stop of the season for athletes. Deer Valley also played host to the 2003 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships and will hold the event again in 2011.
    "Edgar Stern was influential in many ways on behalf of U.S. Ski Team athletes,” says USSA President and CEO Bill Marolt. “It was Edgar, in the early '70s, who helped bring the U.S. Ski Team to its first training center at the Park City Ski Area. And decades later, he continued to support our athletes with the production of the very best FIS Freestyle World Cup events anywhere with our annual competition in Deer Valley.
    “With the passing of Edgar Stern and, earlier this year, Nick Badami (who bought Park City Mountain Resort from Stern in 1975) our Park City community ad our U.S. Ski Team athletes have lost two visionaries who will leave their mark on our sport for many years to come.”
    Stern is survived by his wife of 61 years, Polly; one daughter and three sons, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The family is having a private memorial service but intend to have a public celebration of his life later in Park City.