Successful Succession

Katie Boedecker grew up at Showdown Montana, the ski area her father, George Willett, bought in 1973 when Boedecker was just 10 years old. The mountain has had a tremendous impact on her. “She’s known me almost my whole life,” Boedecker says of the resort. “I’ve cried the most painful tears out there. I’ve laughed my best laugh. I feel like the mountain is my home, that it receives me, that it protects me, that it looks out for me. That’s what homes are meant to do.”

Katie Boedecker (third adult from right), and the next generation, carry on the legacy of family ownership at Showdown Montana.