11 Facts About Hannes Schroll

Hannes Schroll was an Austrian Alpine ski racer and founder of the Sugar Bowl Ski Resort in Norden, California.

Unconfirmed reports by Newspaper and Magazine articles have stated that Hannes Schroll had won up to one hundred ski races before arriving in America.

Hannes Schroll has been characterized as being very charismatic, funny and a larger-than-life social person that would often be heard Yodeling during skiing competitions.

Hannes Schroll then went on to win both the US National Downhill and Slalom open combined category at Mt.

Rainier that particular day and invited Hannes Schroll to become the new ski school director in Yosemite at Badger Pass, in California, by hiring Hannes Schroll on the spot.

Hannes Schroll opened the Sugar Bowl Ski Resort after an invitation by his friend Bill Klein came for him to look at some property in the Sierra Nevada that went on the market in 1937.

Hannes Schroll became president of the Sugar Bowl Corporation with the financial assistance from Hamilton McCaughey a local realtor and ice-skating champion George Stiles and several families that assisted in several other ways.

Hannes Schroll is noted as playing a vital part of Sugar Bowls success by greeting guests and even entertaining them in the lodge in the evenings.

Hannes Schroll himself was inducted into US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 1966.

Hannes Schroll married stockholder Jerome Hill's sister Maud Hill in 1943, she died 18 years after his death, she was 94.

Hannes Schroll lived in his Chalet at Sugar Bowl along with his wife Maud until moving to a small farm house in Palo Alto, California.