Background
Engen was born in the town of Mjøndalen in Buskerud county, the third son of Trond and Martha Oen Engen. After his father died of the Spanish flu in 1918, his mother and brothers moved the short distance to small town Steinberg.
cross-country skier ski jumper Nordic combined skier
Engen was born in the town of Mjøndalen in Buskerud county, the third son of Trond and Martha Oen Engen. After his father died of the Spanish flu in 1918, his mother and brothers moved the short distance to small town Steinberg.
He was the youngest of the three Engen brothers that pioneered and popularized alpine skiing in the intermountain west, primarily in Utah and Idaho. Corey (born Kaare) was a ski jumper and cross-country skier in his native Norway. Corey Engen was one of the first ski instructors at Sun Valley, Idaho, and later moved to McCall, Idaho, first teaching at the Little Ski Hill, then known as the "Payette Lakes Ski Area." In the late 1940s, Engen had initiated the ski school at Snowbasin, near Ogden, Utah, and also coached the Weber State College ski team
In 1951 he returned to McCall, and ten years later was instrumental in the development of the new Brundage Mountain ski area, managing it until 1970.
He was inducted into the United States. National Ski Hall of Fame in 1973. After her death in December 2002, Engen moved to Provo.
Corey Engen died in Orem at the age of 90, his death attributed to complications from pneumonia. He is buried in the Larkin Sunset Gardens Cemetery in Sandy, Utah.
The is located in the Joe Quinney Winter Sports Center at Utah Olympic Park, four miles north of Park City, Utah.
lieutenant contains more than 300 trophies, medals, uniforms, scrapbooks, skis, boots, photos, films and other collectables that span some 70 years in the career of the Engen family. The museum"s educational component gives school children a skiing-based foundation to study subjects such as the water cycle, physics and Utah"s colorful history.
Engen brothers.