2006 - Off the Grid

What is your number one goal in skiing/riding right now?
Have healthy & happy days!

Current favorite piece of gear? Why?
Icelantic Powder skis! You know why...

Best advice you were ever given?
The Golden Rule.

Where do you draw your inspiration from?
John Stockton

What is your greatest fear?
The Utah Jazz never winning a NBA championship.

Best moment filming with WME this year?
Riding snowmobiles into the zones!

Best Moment of filming with WME this year?
Riding snowmobiles into the zones!

 

Off The Grid - 2006

The bar has been raised and Warren Miller Entertainment’s 57th annual feature film is going Off the Grid.

Off the Grid delivers the fiercest line-up of adventurous skiers and riders in the deepest snow and steepest mountains featuring Jeremy Bloom, Pep Fujas, Jenn Berg, Jeremy Nobis, Simon Dumont, Lynsey Dyer, TJ Schiller and the Crist brothers, to name a few. Not without Warren Miller’s brand of humor, this year’s film runs the gamut of emotion as it circumvents our world, our grid.

Follow big-mountain superheroes to the un-skied faces of Kashmir, India. See incredibly deep powder skiing and riding in Utah, Colorado, and Montana. Find out what makes the terrain park skiing stuntmen tick at the U.S. Freeskiing Open. Marvel at the world’s gnarliest snowball fight and the quirky characters of Monpalooza. Discover the terrain-less-traveled in Austria, Switzerland and Canada. And learn why nothing is impossible on the impossible steeps of Alaska with adaptive skiers Monte Meier and Kevin Bramble. With a diverse soundtrack featuring Audioslave, Imogen Heap, Zero 7, Gomez and Primal Scream, Off the Grid is proof that when the snow falls, the rules change.

The snow is falling. The rules have changed. Winter starts now. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to get Off the Grid.

FEATURED ATHLETE: JONNY MOSELEY 

 

 

Wish I could remember back that far. The photos are awesome. I do remember losing my sick Oakley blades I won when I was 10. Damn, I miss those still. I remember sleeping in the car a lot on long drives.

 

What career accomplishment are you most proud of?

Gold Medal

 

Any nicknames?

Jmo, JBAM, Slomo, Motown (Karaoke AE), Mozor, Kzor, Mose, Jonathan, Jonny F-in Moseley, Stinky

 

Favorite ski films?

Extreme Winter, Blizzard of Ahhhs, Degenerates, and Art of Flight.

 

 

Current favorite piece of gear? Why?
Marker Duke Bindings. They have opened up the world to me. I can look at things differently now with this AT set up.

How do you like spending your down days?
Movies, writing and working on my Youth Project. I have a foundation for kids.

Fondest memory from learning to ski or ride?
My fondest is my earliest. Riding on my dad's back down a bump run. I was less than a year old and remember everything about one portion of it.

Do you have any hidden talents?
Music... The need to create and inspire music through amazing artists.

What would your superpower be?
Climbing; Spiderman skills

Spirit animal?
Eagle

What career accomplishment are you most proud of?
They are all connected. So I'm proud of the battle and I'm still here and still battling.

Do you have any pets? What are their names?
No...used to...I have plants now. The same two plants for 28 years.

Can you speak any other languages? What other languages would you like to learn?
I would love to learn Italian. I go to Italy twice a year

What is your biggest goal/something you hope to achieve in your ski career?
I want to be in influence. That somehow my combination of experiences inspire others to love this sport or the lifestyle involved.


Photos by Mike Arzt

Where would you like to ski that you haven't been to before?
Svalbard, Greenland, and Iceland.

Who has been the biggest influence to you in your ski career?
My heroes are still Craig Kelly and Terje Haakonsen, but I have had so many friends who have inspired me with their positive energy, love for, and dedication to winter sports that there are too many in my life to name.. I get inspired by seeing little kids and I get motivated to see what people like Jeremy Jones and Xavier Delerue are riding.

Where is your absolute favorite spot for après-ski?
At the base of the Sugarloaf Access Road, a little place called The Rack.

What do you look forward to most after a long day on the mountain?
Food and sleep...I really like to sleep.

What is something you wish you had more time for outside of skiing?
Surfing, golf and just time off.

FEATURED ATHLETE: Kevin Quinn

Favorite music to ride to:

Metalica

What is your favorite Peak and why?

There are so many to list but I would say Pontoon, Sphinx and Meteorite would be at the top. They are 3 of the biggest peaks in the Chugach, very esthetic and part of the "holy grail".

What is the one thing you look forward to most after a long day on the Mountain?

Being with my family and all our guests coming home safe and sound after experiencing the "best day of their life".

What do you do in the off-season?

I am obsessed with flying my 180 Cessna Airplane. I am a true believer in Crossfit (Avalanche and Blizzard in Tahoe), mountain bike and of course spend a ton of time with my 2 year old Kinley Drake and wife Jessica

You own and run the largest heli-ski operation in the US, how did you and Jessica get the idea an initiate to star PNH?

I had been visiting Valdez for years and knew I wanted to start a heli ski operation. There were over 5 operations in Valdez so I rented a fixed aircraft and flew the Chugach to Cordova where I saw the Orca Adventure Lodge. I knew this was the perfect location for a heli ski operation as it's 30 miles as the crow flies from Valdez but the only operation in Cordova. We truly have a chunk of the Chugach to ourselves. The Orca Adventure Lodge is the ideal setting, 2 miles from town located directly on Prince William Sound with the Chugach in our backyard. We are truly all-inclusive with 3 beautiful A-Stars out our front window, there is no driving up a pass to see if we are flying or not. 

What was the highlight of filming the Points North segment for Flow State?

Skiing with Mitch Toelderer and Travis Ganong. These 2 guys have such great energy. It was pretty cool spending time in the Chugach with Mitch who has been coming to PNH for years and Travis who was a 1st timer in the Chugach.