Our Staff
MSI Cycle & Ski Qualified Team
Tom Danley
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Blake Peterson
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Barbara Nason
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Adam Johnson
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David Hobbs
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| I was born in Santa Clara , California just missing the disco aria but in enough time to witness my sister's huge hair. Since that day of spring in a state far too populated even back then, I was destined for adventure. |
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| The thrill of life, the simple pleasures that no one would anticipate for a career. I absolutely love cycling of any kind and enjoy skiing about the same. There's something exciting about living for the seasons. I've been a bicycle mechanic for 14 years in several shops and for a professional downhill race team. I've attended the United Bicycle Institute (UBI) and dozens of industry clinics. Winter of '06 was my seventh season as a ski instructor but I'm not sure I'll have the time now that MSI is open. Whether it be road racing or DH, powder turns or misty 7's I love to chase the thrill and share it with friends around me. We're in this business because so many of use share the same passion and you deserve personal, professional, small shop service.
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| As a native Montana, the outdoor lifestyle was just normal recreation for me. My father was a skier and on the Gt. Falls High School Ski team in 1942. Needless to say, when I came along in 1961 my destiny was set. |
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| At age three we went to our home hill (King's Hill) and my father passed the torch to me. Some thirteen years later when I was competing in freestyle skiing and breaking gear at a phenomenal rate, he suggested I get a job at a ski shop to defray the cost of equipment. Little did he know but, that moment would define most of my adult life.
After school in Bozeman I moved to Winter Park Colorado to teach skiing. Once I figured out that ski instructors don't make much money and really don't ski that much I found myself back in retail. In Colorado the tourist sets the schedule. With this in mind, imagine I didn't have much to do from say, 10:00 to 3:00 everyday. Armed with a free season pass (courtesy of my employer) and young strong legs, I happily skied many 100 day seasons. Somewhere in the twenty years I spent in CO. I got a wife, a management job, and an ability to make peoples ski boots fit like their favorite pair of jeans.
In 2003 my wife announced she had been transferred to someplace in Montana called the Flathead. With heavy hearts we left the Colorado high country and moved home. We now live in Columbia Falls and call the Big Mountain our hill. I'm still in the ski shop and hope my father is proud…..
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| Raised right here in the Flathead Valley
but left to experience college in Southern California. Graduated with a degree in fashion merchandising and headed to New York. |
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Married with 3 awesome kids, then divorced. Yeah……. Been there, done that. So it's back to the basics. I'm really looking forward to the next chapter.
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| Hello, my name is Adam Johnson and I have been with MSI since the doors opened in June of 2006. I spent the summer wrenching on bikes and the fall doing anything and everything in addition to setting up the ski shop. |
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| Unfortunately, I will not be around this winter as I will be retuning to Garmisch , Germany to teach skiing for a second season. Hopefully I will see you all this spring when it is time to put the skis away and pull out the bikes. Have a great winter.
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| My name is David Hobbs and I live in Whitefish because it's the coolest place on earth. My parents haven't kicked me out of the house yet so I'll keep raiding the frig and skiing my brains out at the Big. |
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| I'm a telemark skier which means my mind is free after fallowing my heels. I work at MSI for the sweet hook ups and the ability to tune my gear when ever I need it. Tele racing has taken me around the world but I still enjoy a sunny day on the beach in Mexico . My friends think of me as that weird guy that unicycles and tele's but mostly there just not sure about me. My parents just think I'm special. After a long day of training and maybe some pesto tortellini I can think of nothing better than some day competing in the Olympics or maybe tearing up the side of a volcano on my unicycle.
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