Squaw Valley, CA
Chris Delumyea
Plattsburgh, New York
FEATURED ATHLETE: CHRIS DELUMYEA
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Day Dreams. The first movie to show the Palisades at Squaw Valley.
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Don't miss Chris in our 72nd film, Winter Starts Now, dropping Fall 2021!
Karsten Hart
Mill Valley, CA
2021 Winter Starts Now
FEATURED ATHLETE: KARSTEN HART
My Mom and Dad.
Invest it…well, most of it. An Audi R8 would definitely be one of those investments.
Gumins Smoothie.
KT-22 in Squaw…there are so many lines and variety that you can hot lap over and over and over. It never gets boring.
OBX Season 2 of course.
Lightning McQueen….”Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Brekkie could be good for me. No, no, no, focus. Speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning.”
Listening, in disbelief, to a voicemail from Tom Day that we should go skiing together.
My bike and surfboard. Santa Cruz V10 and my Lost Mayhem. The perfect compliments to snow.
Children’s health care in Zimbabwe, specifically the Harare Children’s Hospital Relief Fund, a project created by my teammate, Parker Gumins.
So many things were…awkward. Travel, distancing, wearing masks on chairlifts, no Dave’s Deli. But, the snow still fell and some amazing days were had.
Skiing is too amazing for people not to experience. I’d love to see it become more accessible and affordable for everyone around the world…but we’d need to figure out the lift lines.
Channel Wim Hof. Get a few quick breaths in and send it.
Blizzard of AAHHHs. It was a game changer. Super raw, different, and it pulled together three legends that I can relate to independently but that I want to emulate as one.
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Don't miss Karsten in our 72nd film, Winter Starts Now, dropping Fall 2021
Cheryl Varner
Tacoma, WA
Featured Athlete: Cheryl Varner
If I won the lottery I would take a group of my close ski buddies for 2 weeks to Las Lenas, Argentina, my 2nd most favorite ski area. Gotta love the Marta chairlift
The best place in Olympic Valley to get that breakfast of champions is the Wildfour Baking Co. because everything is made from scratch with the best ingredients.
My favorite chairlift is KT22, at Squaw Valley because it has everything. The diversity of this chair is beyond compare. For over 20 years now I have made it my mission to be1st on the KT chair on a powder day. That 1st run can be the best thing on the planet.
Some of my fondest memories of filming for this WME film was the peace and tranquility of being on the mountain before any of the public and making new ski friends. One morning we were up on Granite Chief Peak. The wind was howling and the powder was deep and it was all ours, for at least one run. It was awesome to get to ski for Tom Day and his crew.
I super love my Volkl Secrets. They are super versatile and quick to respond. I have been on Volkl skis for years and years. Same goes for my Atomic boots. My feet are always warm and happy.
There is a cause that I’ve held dear to my existence for over 50 years and that is “STOP LITTERING”. I cannot believe that in this day and age that littering is still a major issue. I thought that after a couple of decades of our youth being taught the importance of caring for our planet that it would be second nature to everyone that we need to take care of our planet first and foremost.
The longer lift lines created by “covid spacing” and the number of folks on each chair actually turned out a benefit. Fewer people were on any run at any given time. That was sweet.
My vision for skiing and snowboarding is a culture, an industry and a community of inclusion. I hope that rather than our sport becoming more exclusive, that we can grow the sport to include more and more people, sharing the joy of the mountains and sliding on snow with as many people as possible. I believe there is plenty of powder to go around for everyone!
To calm myself before any big venture, be it competing in the bumps 35 years ago or stomping in front of a camera, I sing a song to myself . This seems to center my energy and calm my nerves.
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Don't miss Cheryl in our 72nd film, Winter Starts Now, dropping Fall 2021
Connery Lundin
Hometown?
Oakland, California
Home Mountain?
Palisades Tahoe
Current Location?
Olympic Valley, CA
Warren Miller Films:
2019 Timeless
2021 Winter Starts Now
2022 Daymaker
2024 75
FEATURED ATHLETE: CONNERY LUNDIN
Marcus Caston. And anyone doing it with a fat smile on their face. The best skier is the one having the most fun.
Silverton Segment with Andy Mahre & Pep Fujas "Children of Winter" - 2008
KT-22 at Squaw Valley. From the top of KT you can access so much terrain.
Shredding in a big group with your friends, skiing fast, not stopping, pushing each other, leaving your comfort zone and throwing out high fives after.
Jeremy Jones
Warren Miller Films:
1999 Fifty (Hatchet, AK)
2016 Here, There & Everywhere (Squaw Valley, CA)
2024 75
Snowboarding legend and idol to many riders, Jeremy Jones, first took to a snowboard in 1984 in a pretty peculiar place – Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Like most people who try a new sport for the first time, he didn’t excel right away. Jump ahead three years and after linking a few feel-toe turns on that same tiny hill in Cape Code, Jones found his calling. “The feeling of making those first turns was indescribable,” says Jones. “It was as if someone had just waved a magic wand and POOF!”
Known for his adventurous spirit and dedication to progression, Jones turned his passion for riding into a full-time career. When snowboarding was just a fringe sport to the masses, it was a life staple for Jones. From the time he was 9 years old and into his high school years, he found himself hiking up resort hills when snowboarders weren’t allowed to on the lifts and trekked uphill in the middle of the night to snag first ascents as soon as the sun rose.
Beyond his status of being possibly the world’s best rider, Jones is also a pioneer in the industry. He’s helped discover and tracked new lines across the globe, has won countless awards, and started a snowboard company. Since its infancy in 2009, Jones Snowboards has remained focused on backcountry safety and putting the use of sustainable manufacturing practices and healthy work environments at the forefront of the brand.
Jones is also tagged with expanding backcountry snowboarding by exposing terrain reachable with a splitboard. He says he racks up about 80 days per year on his splitboard because it opens up new possibilities in areas where there are no chairlifts to be found. He also prefers splitboarding because of the solitude it brings.
While Jones is growing older, he’s certainly not slowing down, but a rewarding day takes on a new form. These days when he’s not touring above tree line or heli-skiing, Jones prefers to carve groomers with his family at Squaw Valley.
Info gathered from jonessnowboards.com
Jonny Moseley
1998 Freeriders
1999 Fifty
2008 Children of Winter
2009 Dynasty
2010 Wintervention
2011 ...Like There's No Tomorrow
2012 Flow State
2015 Chasing Shadows
2017 Line of Descent
2018 Face Of Winter
2019 Timeless
2020 Future Retro
2021 Winter Starts Now
2022 Daymaker
2023 All Time
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.
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.
JT Holmes
Squaw Valley
Red Bull, Squaw Valley, Polaris RZR, BFGoodrich
2009 Dynasty
2013 Ticket to Ride
2014 No Turning Back
2015 Chasing Shadows
2017 Line of Descent
2021 Winter Starts Now
Featured Athlete: JT Holmes
Shane McConkey (deceased), Timy Dutton (deceased), and Jeff Engergretson (alive and working for WME).
Buy an airplane, payoff my families debts, then helicopter ski, or maybe purchase my own ski resort.
Breakfast sandwich from Wildflour Baking Company in Squaw Valley's Olympic House.
KT-22 at Squaw Valley.
Blitzed by Norman Ohler.
James Bond because he uses clever pieces of gear to outwit his opponents with a confident swagger.
Highlight memory from filming with WME for this year's film?
Speedriding at Solitude right off the chairlift as well as in their nearly endless lift acccessed backcountry.
Alps & Meters Patrol knit sweater and their Alpine WInter Trouser. Both are warm, breathable and very stylish. I like their stuff because of the comfort and because I look different than anyone else on the mountain. I get compliments on my attire all day!
Red Bull's Wings For Life. They raise money for spinal cord injury research.
It was nice to stay at home and ski Squaw Valley rather than travel a bunch. COVID travel bans definitely had their silver linings.
I would like to see North American skiers and riders skiing with parachutes inbounds just like they do throughout Europe and Scandinavia. I have seen families of four with kids 11 and 14 speedriding like it is no big deal. In fact, it is not a difficult activity and it should not have the stigma of an extreme sport.
Take slow deep breaths, then exhale with my lips softly closed but relaxed. This makes that horse like sound and flappy lip movement. If you are too tense to flap your lips, you should take a moment to calm down and push the fear aside.
That is a tough one but it is hard to beat Hot Dog: The Movie. It is hilarious and captures the vibe of early days Squaw Valley freestyle skiing.
The cool thing about the Warren Miller program is the tours. Just the fact that it’s still based around having everybody in one room and you feel that energy and pre-season ski stoke, and that just really fires me up, to go and shoot stuff that I know is going to get people off their seats and just stoked.
Speed riding is adding a fourth dimension to skiing. Suddenly you're able to ski all sorts of places that otherwise aren't available, and you do that by flying over the sections that are un-skiable or even just undesirable to ski, and what that does is it allows you to just ski the highest quality ski experience, and then you're using the wind as transportation to the next high quality ski experience. It's almost gluttonous with the amount of fresh tracks we're able to get and the amount of fun we're able to have.
First of all, it's just fun. Second, doing something new that is really uncommonly done or never done before, that adds kind of an exploration element to it where you feel like you're figuring something out and conquering new territory and it really kind of triggers a new type of motivation. You brainstorm something interesting to do and then you figure out what toys you need to bring or develop in order to make it possible and then when you do complete it, it's not only fun but also an accomplishment feeling. That's really what motivates me.
Everybody needs to try speed riding. Put it on the bucket list and then scratch it off the bucket list and put it on the now list, because it’s just so dang fun. I know a lot about having fun - I'm an expert at having fun, and this is really fun. And it’s not that hard.
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Don't miss JT in our 72nd film, Winter Starts Now, dropping Fall 2021!