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Emilio Trampuz
Apr 30, 2025, 8:16:12 PMApr 30
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Hi
ffolks,
Many of you will receive this as a duplicate, because I have already sent this to your personal email address directly. But, I am sending this to the club's Forum (Google Group) as well, in order to share this news with some people that have left the club but may still be part of the Forum. NOTE that the Forum is a Google Group and it is independent of the Mt. High club. People join the Forum on their own (optional), and they also need to leave the Forum on their own if they wish to do so. The Mt. High club doesn't control this Group.
Three people have passed away recently. Maybe you didn't know all of them, This is mostly just FYI. The only dates to remember, if you wish to attend, are:
a) Dave Hiebert's Celebration of Life, Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 2 pm.
b) Lloyd Musser's Celebration of Life, Sunday, July 13, 2025, from 1 - 5 pm.
Dave Hiebert
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Dave passed away peacefully on February 2nd, 2025 from Mesothelioma Cancer.
He was 82, lived a full and happy life, always upbeat and thankful.
He was a member of both the SKi Kats club and the Mountain High club.
There will be a Celebration of his life on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at 2 pm, at the
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Willamette Falls
710 6th Street
Oregon City, OR 97045
Refreshments will be served. Please contact his wife Frankie with any questions: 360-931-3356.
Here is a picture of Dave Hiebert and Emilio Trampuz at the Canada/USA border crossing, returning from a ski trip in Canada, and pretending they are in trouble with the law.
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Lloyd Musser
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Lloyd Musser was the curator and heart and soul of the Mt. Hood Museum and Cultural Center in Government Camp. He passed away on March 1st, 2025, just a few months after his wife Maureen died. It is interesting that he passed away on the same day that the annual Ski the Glade Trail Day was held -- and event that Lloyd himself created some 22 years earlier.
Bud Valian
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Most everyone who spent much time on the mountain knew Bud Valian. He passed away in Belize on April 23, 2025. Bud wa 91 years old. Bud was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, but lived most of his life in Government Camp, Oregon. He worked as a ski instructor and later opened the Mogul Mouse Ski Shop and Bud Valian’s Ski Shop in Government Camp, teaching skiing all winter. He would travel south for two months every spring for SCUBA diving adventures.
Here is an email that Betsy sent to Jeannie Hummel and asked for us to let folks know. Bud's wife Betsy wrote:
" I lost Bud on the 23rd. It already seems like an eternity ago. He passed while holding my hand, laying on the bed together and I recalling all the beautiful dives, boats, adventures, skiing and life we had together... the tropical breeze was especially soft and perfectly warm, not hot that day. I noticed. I opened the curtains and windows and let the breeze sweep over us as we laid there. Within 15 minutes he slipped away to a place without the constant pain Bud has had to live with for so many many years of his life.
"I wanted you to know. I am fine. I have friends around and I'll be returning to the mountain & Newport sometime end of June or July .... this house is so quiet and empty now, it was built w/ Bud's needs in mind and is now soothing on better days.. to be able to go out on the verandah and watch the Agoutis, birds and smell the Cashew fruit and Manges ripening in the treetops.... see the clouds pass by over the palm trees, as he loved it.
"We were blessed to be together for almost 42 years married. It was a rough fight Bud fought as ‘end of life’ is nothing like it is in developed countries, but would it be any other way for Bud? Probably not. He was a brave man. Life is a blink, we are truly dust in the winds….. take care, all of you.
Betsy"
And here is a picture of Bud Valians
Many of you will receive this as a duplicate, because I have already sent this to your personal email address directly. But, I am sending this to the club's Forum (Google Group) as well, in order to share this news with some people that have left the club but may still be part of the Forum. NOTE that the Forum is a Google Group and it is independent of the Mt. High club. People join the Forum on their own (optional), and they also need to leave the Forum on their own if they wish to do so. The Mt. High club doesn't control this Group.
Three people have passed away recently. Maybe you didn't know all of them, This is mostly just FYI. The only dates to remember, if you wish to attend, are:
a) Dave Hiebert's Celebration of Life, Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 2 pm.
b) Lloyd Musser's Celebration of Life, Sunday, July 13, 2025, from 1 - 5 pm.
Dave Hiebert
===========
Dave passed away peacefully on February 2nd, 2025 from Mesothelioma Cancer.
He was 82, lived a full and happy life, always upbeat and thankful.
He was a member of both the SKi Kats club and the Mountain High club.
There will be a Celebration of his life on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at 2 pm, at the
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Willamette Falls
710 6th Street
Oregon City, OR 97045
Refreshments will be served. Please contact his wife Frankie with any questions: 360-931-3356.
Here is a picture of Dave Hiebert and Emilio Trampuz at the Canada/USA border crossing, returning from a ski trip in Canada, and pretending they are in trouble with the law.
Lloyd Musser
============
Lloyd Musser was the curator and heart and soul of the Mt. Hood Museum and Cultural Center in Government Camp. He passed away on March 1st, 2025, just a few months after his wife Maureen died. It is interesting that he passed away on the same day that the annual Ski the Glade Trail Day was held -- and event that Lloyd himself created some 22 years earlier.
Please
join us in honoring the lives of Maureen and Lloyd
A. Musser
on July 13th, 2025, at Timberline
Lodge, from 1–5 PM.
This
celebration of life is open to all whose lives
were touched by Lloyd and Maureen. As Maureen
wished, it will be a joyful gathering filled
with laughter, shared memories, and stories
that celebrate their legacy and the many lives
they impacted.
Feel
free to spread the word to anyone who may want
to attend.
Here is Lloyd Musser on Glade Trail Day in March 2007. Photo from Emilio Trampuz.
Here is Lloyd Musser on Glade Trail Day in March 2007. Photo from Emilio Trampuz.
Bud Valian
==========
Most everyone who spent much time on the mountain knew Bud Valian. He passed away in Belize on April 23, 2025. Bud wa 91 years old. Bud was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, but lived most of his life in Government Camp, Oregon. He worked as a ski instructor and later opened the Mogul Mouse Ski Shop and Bud Valian’s Ski Shop in Government Camp, teaching skiing all winter. He would travel south for two months every spring for SCUBA diving adventures.
Here is an email that Betsy sent to Jeannie Hummel and asked for us to let folks know. Bud's wife Betsy wrote:
" I lost Bud on the 23rd. It already seems like an eternity ago. He passed while holding my hand, laying on the bed together and I recalling all the beautiful dives, boats, adventures, skiing and life we had together... the tropical breeze was especially soft and perfectly warm, not hot that day. I noticed. I opened the curtains and windows and let the breeze sweep over us as we laid there. Within 15 minutes he slipped away to a place without the constant pain Bud has had to live with for so many many years of his life.
"I wanted you to know. I am fine. I have friends around and I'll be returning to the mountain & Newport sometime end of June or July .... this house is so quiet and empty now, it was built w/ Bud's needs in mind and is now soothing on better days.. to be able to go out on the verandah and watch the Agoutis, birds and smell the Cashew fruit and Manges ripening in the treetops.... see the clouds pass by over the palm trees, as he loved it.
"We were blessed to be together for almost 42 years married. It was a rough fight Bud fought as ‘end of life’ is nothing like it is in developed countries, but would it be any other way for Bud? Probably not. He was a brave man. Life is a blink, we are truly dust in the winds….. take care, all of you.
Betsy"
And here is a picture of Bud Valians
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