BOLTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Ralph DesLauriers, the founder of Bolton Valley Resort, passed away this past weekend.

Deslauriers founded Bolton Valley with his dad back in 1966. He sold it in 1997, but bought it back with local investors in 2017 and ran it again, this time with his children, Lindsay, Evan, and Adam, making it one of the only independent mountains left in the state.

He was 90 years old.

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