Elspeth Greenhill 2013

Known affectionally around the club as Bugga Bugga, a nick-name she earnt while racing. Legend says that, as she skied down the course and maybe missing a gate, she would shout out, “Bugger, Bugger, Bugger!” The name seemed to stick. 

Elspeth grew up at the foot of Mt Buffalo and started skiing around the age of 18. Her father Richard was on the Mt Buffalo committee for many years and Rollasons Falls are named in his honour. 

Elspeth and her MSC friends would travel to Falls Creek on the "Blitz" travelling up from Myrtleford on a Saturday afternoon.

A very successful representative skier for the MSC, some of her achievements: 

• In 1954, the New Zealand team came to Australia to compete against the N.E.D.S.A. team. N.E.D.S.A. was very successful, with Myrtleford having three representatives, in John Robertson, Dick Walpole and Elspeth Rollason. Elspeth came second in both Women’s Downhill and Giant Slalom and came third in the Slalom.
• 1955 Victorian Championships, held at Mt. Hotham, she came seventh in the Slalom and fifth in the Giant Slalom.
• 1955 Australian Championships, held at Ben Lomond in Tasmania, she came eighth in the Slalom and fourth in the Downhill.
• 1957 Australian Championships, she came tenth in the Women’s Downhill, ninth in the Slalom and sixth in the combined.
• 1957 Victorian Championships, held at Mt Buller, she came fourth in the Downhill and seventh in the Slalom.
• 1960 Victorian Championships, she came eighth in the Slalom and tenth in the Downhill

A very proud and passionate member of the club, Elspeth sat on the committee from 1951 to 1958, these years were very progressive for the club, after the lodge we know today was first built in 1949.

Elspeth married in 1959 and her 1st child was born in September 1960. Her daughter Ros remembered "her taking us downhill on the back of her Skis as kids."

Elspeth's final visit to the lodge was in 2013, when she was proudly awarded life membership.