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mountain during the week.
You are a cross over master. Pro
skier and ripping snowboarder. How
did that all start? How often do you
snowboard?
I wouldn’t say I’m a crossover master
haha. Thank you. It comes from hanging
out with snowboarders, being a skate-
boarder and constantly watching snow-
board and skate flicks for inspiration.
Give us a lowdown of your filming
projects past, present and hopes for
the future?
In the past it started out just mess-
ing around with our friend groups just
shooting each other on GoPro and if
we were lucky we could get someone
with a real camera out to shoot us. After
High School I made it my goal to try to
document skiing as best I could and
got really lucky getting in with 4BI9 crew
out of Utah. I shot my first real segment
with them in “All Damn Day” and was
nominated as rookie of the year at IF3
film festival. Pete Alport has also been
an integral part of filming me and help-
ing me understand how to shoot things,
and how to build a solid segment.
Jasper Newton has also helped me be
more creative and work together to get
unique shots! After shooting with 4BI9 I
got in with Poor Boyz Productions and
shot a segment for their film “Twenty”
their twentieth ski movie. Which was real
special to me because I grew up watch-
ing those movies and to have a seg-
ment amongst skiers I grew up watching
was crazy. From there I did a personal
project with my ski sponsor, Lib-Tech,
and then shot for Tanner Hall’s 2-year
project “Ring The Alarm”. That winter I
learned a lot and owe a lot to Tanner for
bringing me in on such a big project.
From there, I grouped up with Good
Company ski, which has a lot of people
from 4BI9 and is the production compa-
ny that many of my fellow skier friends
work with. This season Jasper Newton,
Karl Fostvedt and myself are making our
own mini movie under the Good Com-
pany umbrella. We are super stoked to
construct a piece that has a clear vision
from the start to finish and hopefully get
people stoked to go ski!
Where has your skiing taken you?
Where is your favorite place to ski
other than Mt Bachelor?
My skiing has taken me around the
Western US, Hawaii, British Columbia
and Japan. My travels are mostly spent
in the Northwest and in British Colum-
bia. That is where I like to film the most
and also progress my skiing riding big
mountain and technical pillow lines.
My favorite place has to be either Mt.
Baker or Revelstoke B.C. I hope to get
to Alaska and also Europe! There is still
so much to ski in the U.S. and B.C. that I
haven’t experienced yet too.
Why is Mt Bachelor such a good
training ground for aspiring skiers
and snowboarders?
Because we get a consistent snowpack
that also comes with natural terrain for
learning tricks and a solid terrain park. It
has got it all within a close proximity to
Bend! I think that the activities and great
weather for outdoor stuff around Bend
is what shapes us athletes the most.
Not many other places you can dip into
other sports that easily and gain inspira-
tion from every aspect.
Any crazy travel stories you can tell
us?
Pretty much every time going to a new
zone and punching up a logging road
on the snowmobiles to find new places
to ski is an adventure and comes with a
story. Skiing in Hawaii was probably the
craziest trip I’ve been on. We went there
to shoot a story with Freeskier with Pete
Alport, Justin Norman and Dan Norku-
nas. Meeting the local Hawaiians and
shredding with them was all time. They
were hesitant of us being there at first
but once we started sessioning together
they got really hyped and where such
nice people who spread pure happiness
and stoke like no other. We had a road
gap session up below the telescopes
on Mauna Kea and everyone was going
nuts; even the cops pulled their car un-
der the gap and we were boosting over
them. It was absolutely nuts.
If you could be a professional athlete
in any other sport what would that
be?
Man I think it would be surfing. The
lifestyle of that sport is the best. I would
say skateboarding, but being at that
top level is so savage I don’t think I
could maintain that high level with all the
talent out there to have a long career/
functioning body. Surfing is a bit more
forgiving and you can do it for a long
time, plus the feeling of riding a wave is
pretty darn nice.
Do you do traditional gym workouts
to keep fit or just use the outdoors as
your training ground?
I hate going to the gym but try to
squeeze it in for preventative injuries.
Mountain biking and skateboarding are
my training. It keeps your mind sharp
while building strength and keeps re-
flexes on point.
Last year you skied all the major
peaks around Central Oregon and
made a film about it. Do you plan on
doing something like that again? Last
spring we had incredible snow, is that
a deciding factor?
Not quite all the peaks... Haha. Yes!
There are some that got away that I
need to get on. I plan on doing it again
to ski and climb more technical lines off
the peaks now that I have a better idea
of the ones I haven’t spent too much
time on. The snow level is definitely a
factor and big snow years help with the
approaches to these peaks.