“I’m a total control freak,” Dylan Siggers says.  It’s not the image most people have of the freeski prodigy from Fernie, BC, but the 28-year-old, renowned for his immersive filmmaking and flowing style on snow, is allowing me a peek behind the curtain. Making his skiing come across as fluid, natural and carefree has been a […]

There are no condos at Mt. Baker Ski Area. No high-rise hotels or luxury storefronts. And if there’s a hot tub, it’s the best kept secret since Bigfoot’s whereabouts. In the day and age of mega-resorts and conglomerate ski passes, this small, locally owned, 1,000-acre-ish ski hill at the end of Washington state’s Highway 542 is […]

“The garden at my house right now is just a mega, mega real image of myself,” Arianna Tricomi says in her unhurried, lyrical voice. “It’s a little wild, but the garden just grows and grows. Like me. I’m a mess, but I keep on growing.” Tricomi is sitting on her patio, drinking a beer and […]

Luke “Lupe” Hagearty is not a social media star. He has never been part of the competition scene, nor has he starred in a big-budget ski movie. In some ways, it’s hard to explain quite how this style master from West Hartford, CT, became a pro at all. Hagearty’s career has been cut from the unforgiving […]

Stan Rey is not afraid to cry. “That’s why I love watching sports,” he says. “They show their emotions. It’s so beautiful to see someone in tears of joy from accomplishing a lifetime goal.”  He cried three days before we talked because his recovery from a fully torn ACL was slower than he’d wanted. He cried […]

Lauren Samuels has always been fast. A dedicated and uncompromising athlete, she was the J2 National super-G and overall champion in 2009 and she raced at the U.S. Nationals and World Juniors in 2012. At age 15, she made the U.S. Ski Development Team, earning a coveted spot as a next-gen future Olympian, while becoming one […]

Standing atop the perfect pyramid of Ober Gabelhorn, 13,330 feet above sea level, Jérémie Heitz musters a shallow breath. The face looks steep—fall-off-the-Earth steep. A 55-five-degree pitch careening toward the valley basin. One of the Alps’ most striking peaks is more a sheer triangular wall than a freeride line, but Heitz is locked in. He waves […]

The name on the Zoom call says Phil Casabon but the moving image on the screen is of a raccoon, its whiskers twitching inches from the camera. The raccoon’s name is Wapie, named after Wapizogonke, a lake near Quebec. Casabon discovered the orphaned raccoon as a baby on the side of the road. After searching for […]

It’s June 2020 and McKenna Peterson is battling a mess of wires aboard a boat in Seattle’s Fishermen’s Terminal. McKenna spends winters burrowing through deep powder and filming Alaskan spines with Warren Miller or Matchstick Productions, but when she isn’t chasing turns as a pro skier, she’s aboard the FV Atlantis, captaining her family’s fishing […]

East Coast pro skiers often follow a well-trodden path: a ski academy education, a move out West, then punishing rounds on the competitive circuit. Alex Hackel started down that road at 14 years old. This past winter, a full decade later, he won his first X Games medal. His journey between those two points, however, […]