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Joe Pete Wilson - XC Skiing Pioneer — Cross Country Skiing In cross country skiing, Joe Pete was honored by the Professional Ski Instructors Association for developing the teaching system for cross country skiing and he was involved with setting up the original Eastern Professional Ski Touring Instructors organization (EPSTI). In 2014, Wilson was given the Founders Award by the Cross Country Ski Areas Association. In 1977, Wilson co-wrote the book Complete Cross-Country Skiing & Ski Touring, and later in 1986 he helped to produce the coffee table book Cross Country Ski Inns of the Northeastern US and Canada. If cross country skiing had its own hall of fame and museum in the US, Joe Pete Wilson would be among the first to be honored.

Joseph Peter "Joe Pete" Wilson (May 22, 1935 – September 13, 2019)[1] was an American Olympic cross-country skier, who skied for the U.S. in cross-country at the 1960 Winter Olympics and later became a well-known skiing administrator in the United States. Recognized as the first commercial cross country ski area in the U.S. Summing up all his experiences to that point, his alpine ski shop experiences as a kid in Lake Placid, traveling and racing in Europe and Scandinavia, writing the cross country ski book, counseling ski and hiking clubs planning ski treks, Wilson put together a cohesive plan for this new operation. Wilson was named one of the top ten people who have done the most to promote the growth of cross-country skiing in the United States in the last century.[citation needed]

Joseph Peter "Joe Pete" Wilson (May 22, 1935 – September 13, 2019)[1] was an American Olympic cross-country skier, who skied for the U.S. in cross-country at the 1960 Winter Olympics and later became a well-known skiing administrator in the United States. In 1959 Wilson placed first in the Olympic pre-trials in the 15k, which was held on the grounds that would soon become McKinney Creek Stadium, where the cross-country skiing and Nordic combined Winter Olympic events took place in 1960.[3] This placing set Joe Pete up as a major U.S. skier due to the number of U.S. and foreign competitors in the race.