Gerry FitzGerald is a legend in the Inland Northwest ski-racing community
"I was in the Navy and we were on a destroyer, we were out at sea, so I was talking to these guys. This one guy — I'll never forget his hometown: He was from Fitzgerald, Georgia. I gave them a ski lesson on the fantail of a destroyer," Gerry "Fitz" FitzGerald says, laughing while we sit drinking coffee one cold morning at Lookout Pass. He demonstrated the lesson: "OK, hold your feet here. And now walk forward. OK. Keep your hands out here. It was hysterical, but they were into it." A longtime Spokane resident, Fitz has been coaching ski racing for over 50 years and during that time h...
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