ABOUT
The Ski Journal is skiing's global voice. Featuring local legends and misty mountaineers alongside skiing's top pros, since 2006 TSKJ has delved into mountain ranges the world over to paint a picture of the sport's past, present, and future. Published four times per year in a collectible coffee table format, TSKJ remains committed to being skiing's premier media product.
Published by funny feelings LLC, publishers of frequency The Snowboarder’s Journal since 2001, our offices are located in Bellingham, WA near legendary Mt. Baker and it’s 700+ annual inches, as well as Whistler-Blackcomb, and the North Cascade Wilderness Area.
Jeff GalbraithPublisher
Jeff’s work has appeared in international publications for more than 15 years including Powder, Snowboarder, Warren Miller’s Ski World, Surfer, Rolling Stone, Outside and Time. He grew up in the mountains with his grandfather, an original investor and mountain manager of Seattle’s Alpental ski area, imparting the culture. Jeff left for a while to work as an editor at Surfer Publications and came back. He has been skiing since he was three, and still has flashbacks of Austrian ski coaches yelling at him to lean forward.
He holds a degree in Communications and Journalism from Western Washington University, and is a graduate of the Stanford Professional Publishing Seminar.
Jessica Lu Galbraith Creative Director
Jessica makes things look really, really good. With our sister pub, frequency TSJ Jessica has clearly set the bar for design among action sports publications. Having previously worked with one of the world’s largest advertising firms (Ogilvy & Mather) as well as top lifestyle, communication, and sporting goods clients such as Eddie Bauer, Scott USA, RECCO, and Microsoft, Jessica brings a professional design approach from her contemporary firm JessieLü Design to The Ski Journal. Jessica grew up riding in Colorado. Her creative works remain on permanent display at Colorado State University, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1999. She’d rather be yoga’ing.
Kristopher Kaiyala Editor
Kris is a veteran writer and editor whose many years of contributing to action sports magazines like Powder, SBC Skier, Backcountry, MountainZone.com, and Men’s Journal belie his peach fuzz (he still gets carded on a regular basis despite closing in on the big 4-0). He is a Washington native who grew up jumping out of tree wells on the back side of Mt. Spokane. After earning his creative writing degree from the University of Washington in 1994, he briefly moved to Wyoming, where he contributed to the Jackson Hole News. Several years and moves later, he founded Aspect Journal in 2003, a Web site devoted to ski literature. Kris’s passion and eye for detail come through in his words. He makes his two kids ski at Alpental so they don’t become Snoqualmie wussies.
Grant Gunderson Photo Editor
Grant is one of the most dedicated ski photographers on the planet, having spent the last several years shooting everyone and everything to do with skiing. His truck is almost always one of the first in the upper lot on good days and his work attests to this. Having grown up on the slopes of White Pass, Washington, Grant spent his childhood years watching the Mahre brothers up close and personal, and now he is bringing up the next generation of ski progeny. His work has appeared in Powder, Skiing, Freeze, Freeskier, and Backcountry, among other magazines. He holds an engineering degree from Western Washington University. He home brews dangerously strong (and quite excellent) beer.
Matt Wibby Director of Marketing and Advertising
Matt is a graduate of Western Washington University and holds a degree in Marketing. He has also has been skiing and snowboarding for 15 years and working in alpine media for several years now. Matt’s easygoing style and passionate enthusiasm for the snow is infectious. He never hard sells and goes all out for his clients. He got his job when we picked him up hitchhiking to Mt. Baker. Wibby is a one-man concert production company who can always score you a better deal (cell phones, domain names, thumb drives, stickers, pizzas, you name it…).
Colin Wiseman Associate Editor
Colin is our latest addition to TSKJ, hailing from Hornby Island, B.C. with dual citizenship, a Master’s in Sociology, 25 years of ripping the Island, the Interior and the Rockies, and real desire to document and communicate with the global alpine community. Colin is here to kick ass: get the story done, edited, and off to press. And he does so with stoke and positive vibrations. He is a moderate hockey player who can give a professorial lecture on South American politics. He is no slouch, either, when it comes to tearing up a foot of fresh in storm conditions and will drive great distances over sketchy provincial highways to do so.
Jessie Carlson Designer
Jessie is the kind of skier who’s skill and energy causes men to pile up into trees as she goes by – through no fault of her own. With a BFA in Design from WWU and having been a skier since a toddler, Jessie has been a natural addition to our team. With a strong aesthetic and a real understanding of real design, Jessie has been an integral part of making sure that our pages remain as clean as the snow pictured.
