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On the ranch in Ellensburg with Dad

Born in Yakima, Washington in the spring of 1957 and shortly thereafter moving to Ellensburg, Washington, we were destined to be great apple ranchers if we had followed in our father’s footsteps. Approximately five years later the tractor we're sitting on would be driven into the irrigation ditch at the ranch by the two of us. We also took it upon ourselves to help dad do some pruning one Sunday while the rest of the family was at church, cutting about 20 trees down to knee high. Struggling as a rancher (we weren't much help!) our father accepted the mountain manager’s position at White Pass, a ski area in the Cascade Mountain range. We would like to take some credit for that decision, but we're sure being the mountain lover he is, we had nothing to do with it.

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