Special Recognition Awards

Cody Sheppard was posthumously honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Cody first came to Santa Fe as a student at St. John’s College, and quickly gravitated to the mountains. He began working at Ski Santa Fe/Santa Fe Ski Basin in 1971, and his roles soon included everything from ticket sales and parking to grooming and snowmaking, before becoming a patrolman in 1973. He became patrol director in 1981, and held the position until illness forced his retirement in 2016. He succumbed to cancer in 2017.