SAM Magazine-Ishpeming, Mich., Oct. 14, 2010-World Champion ski racer Daron Rahlves, iconic skiing legend Glen Plake, and the late big-mountain freeskier Shane McConkey are among six skiers and builders named to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame's Class of 2010. They will be joined by Paralympic medalist and World Champion Muffy Davis, Olympian Bobby Cochran, and resort builder Earl Holding, owner of Sun Valley and Snowbasin. The class will be inducted Apr. 2, 2011 at Sun Valley as part of a weeklong celebration of skiing history, including Sun Valley's 75th season.

"This year's Hall of Fame inductees include some great diversity in contributions to our sport," said Hall of Fame chairman Bernie Weichsel. "Each shares in common a great passion for skiing and each has made a tremendous difference in bringing recognition to this lifelong sport enjoyed by millions around the world."

Bobby Cochran is the third member of the famous skiing family from Vermont to enter the Hall of Fame, joining sisters Barbara and Marilyn. He became, at the age of 16, one of the youngest skiers to be selected to the U.S. Ski Team and enjoyed a six-year career (1968-1974) before moving on to the World Professional Tour. In 1973, his best season, he became the first U.S. male skier to win a World Cup giant slalom, reached the podium in three out of four skiing disciplines and won the Hahnenkamm combined.

Muffy Davis grew up racing with Picabo Street at Sun Valley until an accident in 1989 ended her career as an able-bodied skier. She earned a degree at Stanford before returning to the slopes after attending Hall of Famer Sarah Will's adaptive skiing camp in 1995. Thus began an outstanding career, resulting in four Paralympic medals (a bronze and three silvers), a World Championship gold in 2000 and back-to-back World Cup overall titles in 2000 and 2001.

Earl Holding is known in the business world as the owner of Sinclair Oil and the Little America chain of hotels. But, in 1977, he purchased Sun Valley and began a revitalization and beautification program to restore the historic resort. A Salt Lake City native, Holding played a key role in bringing the 2002 Olympic Winter Games to that city. He purchased and developed Snowbasin, which hosted the men's and women's Olympic downhill, combined and super G events.

The late Shane McConkey popularized freeskiing and helped develop backcountry and deep powder skis. He won World Pro Mogul Tour in 1993, the South American Freeskiing championship in 1994, and the U.S. Freeskiing championship in 1995. In 1996 and 1998, he took the International Freeskier Association World Tour Championship. In 2002, he helped develop the first reverse camber and reverse sidecut ski, the Volant Spatula, and four years later introduced the K2 Pontoon. He was featured in 26 ski films and became a world leader in ski base jumping. He died in a ski base jumping accident on Mar. 26, 2009.

With his signature mohawk and unrelenting enthusiasm, Glen Plake is perhaps the world's best-known and most-recognizable skier. The three-time World Hot Dog skiing champion has become the symbol of the fun, joy and spirit of skiing. He starred in classic ski films including "The Blizzard of Aahhh's," "Fistful of Moguls," "License to Thrill," and this year's "Legend of Aahhh's." His television and magazine appearances are legion as he continues to promote skiing at all levels, from high-altitude expeditions around the world to his "Down Home Tour."

Daron Rahlves retired from the U.S. Alpine Ski Team in 2006 as the single most decorated skier in downhill, with nine World Cup victories to his credit. Among his victories was his 2003 win at the historic and prestigious Hahnenkamm in Kitzbuhel Austria. At St Anton, Austria in 2001, he earned the World Championship gold medal in the super G.

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