Utah ski industry pioneer A.W. “Woody” Anderson, who helped grow the sport along the Wasatch Front during the 1960s and 70s, died earlier this week at his home in Idaho. He was 87.
Anderson participated or worked in every aspect of the winter sport, starting out as a ski racer, becoming a beloved instructor and shop owner and eventually buying his own resort in Idaho.
“He couldn’t wait for wintertime and the first snow,” his wife Sandy Anderson told the Times-News in Twins Falls, after her husband died on Oct. 6.
Alexander Woodruff Anderson was born June 7, 1932, in Salt Lake City and grew up attending schools in the state’s capital city.