Thomas Mitchell JACOBS

Tom Jacobs skied for Middlebury College, but his efforts in building the ski industry after college made him a ski icon. After college he was a ski coach at the University of Colorado and was the Executive Director of the National Ski Association in 1956-57. He founded Inside Edge Ski & Bike Shop in Glen Falls, New York in the early 1950s. In 1965 he and his wife founded Reliable Racing, a mail-order ski and bicycle racing company. They also started Inside Edge Ski & Bike Shop in Glen Falls, New York. Jacobs was inducted into the US Ski Hall of Fame in 2007.