Eric Blehm snowboarded in the San Bernardino Mountains as a kid in the early eighties. He became a sponsored amateur on the Look team for a season and then His passion for snowboarding lead him to become a writer for Transworld where he worked his way up to editor in chief before leaving to freelance. For nearly 20 years Eric embedded himself with elite military teams writing two New York Times best sellers, Legend, and The only thing worth dying for. In his latest book, The Darkest White, Eric tackles the Craig Kelly story. With intimate details of Craig’s life from friends and family, the darkest white brings Craig and his accomplishments into focus and tells the most intimate account of the devastating avalanche that claimed the lives of seven people including Craig back in 2003
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TJ Schneider is a badass pro snowboarder from the 2000's (and Red Deer Alberta where the local hill is a valley not a hill or mountain...) who rode for Capita for 12 years. He was one of the original Capita team who suddenly vanished from snowboarding in 2012... Here's a conversation that includes a bit of backstory about that decision.
Support the showEric Blehm snowboarded in the San Bernardino Mountains as a kid in the early eighties. He became a sponsored amateur on the Look team for a season and then His passion for snowboarding lead him to become a writer for Transworld where he worked his way up to editor in chief before leaving to freelance. For nearly 20 years Eric embedded himself with elite military teams writing two New York Times best sellers, Legend, and The only thing worth dying for. In his latest book, The Darkest White, Eric tackles the Craig Kelly story. With intimate details of Craig’s life from friends and family, the darkest white brings Craig and his accomplishments into focus and tells the most intimate account of the devastating avalanche that claimed the lives of seven people including Craig back in 2003
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Sean sullivan is a professional snowboard photographer from Snowboarding’s golden age. Sully joined Snowboarder magazine before they had a senior photographer program and took some of the most iconic snowboard photos of all time. Sully was there for the transition from the magazines running snowboarding to videos, DVD’s, and eventually social media being the main level of engagement for the core snowboard community… we cover all of that plus the time someone tried to steal his name! Enjoy this episode with original legendary snowboard photographer Sean Sullivan
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Josh Dirksen is one of the nicest pro snowboarders I've ever met. Hailing from Oregon and riding out of Mt Bachelor, Josh developed amazing surf style snowboarding through a career of competing, filming, and freeriding. Living with his family in Switzerland, I caught up with Josh at The Mount Baker Headquarters in Bellingham Washington just an hour from my house. Plane tickets for Josh and his daughter had already been purchased so even though the LBS is postponed because of lacklustre snow levels, Josh was in Washington and had time for an interview. Please enjoy!
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Support the showMegan Pischke Porcheron is a Legendary Pioneer Women's Pro Snowboarder. She filmed for tons of movies and competed in seven X-games. Her reputation as a back country snowboarder is all time. She's been married to DCP for 25 years and the two have raised two shredding children and just got back from a Japow trip with the whole family. Megan is a director at the Boarding For Breast Cancer Foundation and is a cancer survivor. Enjoy this conversation from her home in Squamish.
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Support the showTyler Nichol is a cat driver from the Yukon. He was the guy behind the 2010 Olympic SuperPipe and then he did a few years building the Mount Seymour Park. Tyler's story is fascinating and his take on the snowboarding community may just be the antidote to all the corporate craziness going on in the snowboard industry. Sit back and relax as Tyler teaches us all a lesson in bottom up economics.
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Damian Buckley is a 90's Canadian Pro Snowboarder from the Calgary scene. Damian's involvement with Powderstick Snowboards lead to him working for Never Snowboards briefly in Vancouver (the original Vancouver based snowboard manufacturer where Wired owner Rob Dow designed boards in the 90's). After a move to Southern California Damian returned to Calgary. I met him at Mount Baldy Resort outside Osoyoos where he currently lives and builds custom cars.
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Retirement is going well. Thanks in a big way to this week's guest Sean Kearns. The story I'm telling myself is that you are lucky to have this conversational snapshot of where Sean is in his life today for many many reasons. One of the intentions of this conversation is to engage at least one person that needs to hear Sean's story right now. Sean is an amazing friend, anyone who considers him to be one knows exactly what I'm talking about. I'm honoured to bring you this chat with the one and only, The Great Sean Kearns.
Support the showKevin Royes is the inventor behind Bakoda accessories. In the 90's Kevin innovated leashes, stomp pads, locks, waxing and binding tools. He took accessories to another level by signing Devun Walsh and half the Forum 8 to the Bakoda team. Then he sold Bakoda to Northwave and Drake in 1998. 20 years later when I tried to track him down Kevin was no where to be found. So when I got a phone call from him this summer I was stoked. This lead to a meeting up for this interview which took place in his RV while it poured rain outside... enjoy!! It was worth the wait!
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Support the showEstelle Pensiero is a pro snowboarder for Arbor Snowboards who is also sponsored by Volcom, DB Bags, and BCA. She cut her teeth in the backcountry growing up at Baldface Lodge in the Selkirk mountains riding with some of the best snowboarders in the world. Estelle has been featured in Volcom snow videos like NewFangled Phenomenon which just came off a few days ago, go check it out after this episode!!
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