1886 Street Scene in Wardner, Idaho

ID: 5544 ~ Source: Image courtesy of: University of Idaho, Barnard-Stockbridge Photograph Collection.

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1886 Street scene in Wardner, Idaho. Pictured is Noah Kellogg’s infamous burro Bill, who allegedly discovered the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine. The boys riding are Jerome Day, Sam and Frank Poteet.

A jackass, a big hill, and the community that loves them: This is the story of the lucrative jackass that started it all (up on a hill), the memory and embodiment of that jackass (and that hill), and the story of survival of a beloved ski area that was far from lucrative.

By Katherine Hentges

All ski areas have many ups and downs in their history, not just in relation to lift operations up and down the mountain. But the Jackass Ski Resort has had more downs than ups in its lifetime. It is…