12/16/2023 0 Comments Jeremy jones jibber![]() ![]() For the last four years, it’s been almost no travel for snowboarding because I’ve been hyper-focused on my home range. ![]() Ten years ago, I did one or two trips a year and they were a month long each. I continue to be of the mindset that if I’m going to travel, make it count.įor business, snowboarding and photo shoots and stuff, the films pulled me at times and had me traveling more than I wanted to. If a spot has the right snowpack, I’ll go and spend a bunch of time there. I’ve never been a “chase the snow” person. Over the years, I’d have a travel budget, and I’d spend all the money and go to Alaska and spend six or eight weeks there. Is travel different for you now than it was 20 years ago? I thought, “Holy shit, this is a different sport here.”Īs that trip evolved, it became apparent that you can do things here that you can’t do anywhere else due to how perfect the mountains are and how perfect the snow is. I made the biggest turns of my life, in total control and faster than I’d ever gone in powder. It was the best snow I’ve ever ridden - not the deepest but the best. I remember my first run ever in Alaska, going over a blind roll and the mountain stretches out below me. You’ve talked in your films about your love of Alaska, and how you decided at a young age that you would be there to ride every spring. Now, we get super excited when KT opens, that means it’s a good winter. The fact is that before, even on a below-average winter, the lift opened. Three out of the last four years, that lift has either not been open or barely been open for short periods of time. I live in Truckee and Squaw Valley is my home mountain, and there we call (the chairlift) KT-22 “The Mothership.” People plan their migration (to Squaw Valley) on when that lift is open. This was in 2004 or 2005 and I remember thinking, “Good thing I don’t have these issues where I live.” Fast forward to today. The climate is changing at an accelerated rate. It’s crazy, they lost their ski area in a very short period of time. I asked why none of it is open anymore and they told me that it’s because it doesn’t snow there anymore. We were walking around, it was offseason, and they were telling me about how they grew up there, showing me where their jumps used to be, the restaurants on the hill, and their favorite spots. Over ten years ago, I was in northern Canada at an old ski area where I’m friends with some locals. When did you decide to start Protect Our Winters? The first time I went there was in ’96 and it was a forty-minute hike to get to the chairlift. What was alarming is that they have a line in the dirt of where the glacier was the year before, and the year before that. I was going there, and obviously, glaciers recede. As the glacier continued to recede, they built a chairlift from the end of the glacier to the train. Where the glacier ends, they built the train. In Chamonix, there’s this whole deal where they have this run off the main tram that’s down the glacier. How has travel shaped your vision of the world, and of your place in it? ![]()
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