Zoa Engineering has created a personal electric ski lift that's uniquely portable and easy to use. It's been designed to give skiers and snowboarders more out of their time in the backcountry.

Zoa Founder Robert Button and Co-Founder and Marketing Director Andrew Zwicker join us to explain how their PL1 Portable Rope Tow System came to be, how it works and the story behind this potential game changing device.

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Peter "Peru' Chrzanowski has lived a live of adventure and mishap... and he's survived.  In his memoir aptly named,  "I Survived Myself", Peter tells stories of first descents, harrowing accidents, wild travel tales and much more.

In this conversation we talk about the process and inspirations for writing the book about his life.  We dive deeper into some of the tales including his early days skiing at Whistler and getting into trouble with the Ski Patrol, hosting a 3 day backcountry race where everything went wrong, to judging the first few years of the World Extreme Skiing Championships in Alaska.

 

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Peter Landsman's, "Lift Blog", is arguably the internet's most comprehensive website dedicated to ski area lift infrastructure, info and current events.  Chairlifts are his passion.  So much so, he works for Jackson Hole's lift operations department and has just completed the impressive feat of visiting every lift in the US and Canada... all 750 of them!

We talk about his epic mission , is the 6 pack actually and upgrade to the 4 pack, chairlift safety around the world,  the cable of the Sea to Sky Gondola being cut twice and lots more information you didn't know about chairlifts.

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Todd Lawson is the Publisher of Mountain Life Magazine has written his first book, "Inside the Belly of an Elephant".  Is the true story of his worldly journeys by motorcycle, inspired by his brother Sean, who passed away from preventable Malaria on his very first moto adventure.

Lawson takes us through Africa, every country in Latin America, with his partner Christina, and back again to Africa.  Along the way we're introduced to wild characters, serendipitous events, and tough moments all, "...as a way to truly honour the legacy of Sean in an arms-open exploration into the beauty of the natural world and the people living closest to it."

In the book, Lawson weaves together a sense of adventure, inspiring introspection and self growth with true humanity and raw emotion,  all conveyed through his perspective atop a saddle and two wheels.

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Eric Blehm is a former editor of Transworld Snowboarding Magazine and is a New York Times best selling author specializing in adventure biographies. He's here to talk about his latest book, "The Darkest White" which is a deep look into the life and tragic death of the legendary snowboarder, Craig Kelly.

Kelly is arguably the most influential Snowboarder of all time. His death in an avalanche in 2003 was a shock to the snowboarding and mountain guiding communities and the aftermath left many questions unanswered. 

In the Darkest White, Blehm weaves together Kelly's biography, a history of the sport of snowboarding and approaches the avalanche with a forensic eye in an effort to make sense of the tragic event.

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NewSchoolers.com has been the leader in skiing's freestyle / jib / park culture since 1999. In that time it has been bought, sold and restructured by their parent companies more times than you can count on two hands.

Even though they we're being passed around like "Pokemon Cards", NS was the "cockroach" that just kept on surviving the mergers and downsizing and restructuring. Now, the inmates are running the asylum as the crew has just purchased the iconic title becoming, once again, truly independent.

We're joined by 3 of the new owners of NewSchoolers.com to tell us how it happened.

Doug Bishop - Mr.Bishop

David Zorko - Dr. Zorko

Adam Spensley - Twig

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Emily Childs is one part of the three person crew of fun loving, hard charging skiers, The Blondes.   Earlier this year The Blondes released their film, "How Did We Get Here?" , which answers that exact question, sharing a quick look into the histories of the three athletes and friends. 

Emily had a busy winter this year with several big ski trips and a lot of time spent in helicopters.  It's not exactly what you think though.  When not skiing spines in Alaska or shooting promo photos she works as a helicopter pilot and talks about the process of getting her licence.  Em also tells us about growing up at Troll Ski Resort, a small little area in BC that was founded by her Grandfather and operated by her mom.

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Janelle Yip is one part of the three person crew of fun loving, hard charging skiers, The Blondes.   Earlier this year The Blondes released their film, "How Did We Get Here?" , which answers that exact question, sharing a quick look into the histories of the three athletes and friends. This week we dive deep.

Janelle or "JY" as she is usually called made her way to Revelstoke after growing up in Calgary with the goal of becoming a pro skier.  There she met Tonje and Emily and formed The Blondes!  We talk about JY's summer job fighting forest fires in BC and how that led to her working on a soon to be released film, from HDWGH producers CK9 Sudios, portraying the dangerous job. We also chat about overcoming her bad concussion, the evolution of the Blondes, inspiring the next generation of skiers, naps and much more.

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Tonje Kvivik is one part of the three person crew of fun loving, hard charging skiers, The Blondes.   Earlier this year The Blondes released their film, "How Did We Get Here?" , which answers that exact question, sharing a quick look into the histories of the three athletes and friends. 

This week we dive deep. Tonje grew up in Norway before making her way to Revelstoke where she met Janelle Yip and Emily Childs.  She tells us her version of the origin story of the Blondes from Revy to Whistler, filming for TGR and MSP,  their all for one attitude.   

Tonje also spent those years simultaneously studying for her bachelors and masters degrees,  she suffered an injury early this season that she has, until now, kept quiet and she talks about her move to Arc'teryx and much much more.

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Marielle Thompson is the 2024 Ski Cross, Crystal Globe winner.  It's actually her fouth overall title which she can now place on the mantle alongside her gold and silver Olympic medals. 

We talk about the evolution of Ski Cross as a sport and why Team Canada has been so dominant over the years.  She also shares how she manages the extensive travel spending weeks on the road at a time.  I ask her if she ever gets to ski any pow in between events and we talk also talk about our dogs and how she is also an excellent softball player.

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Ming Poon is a very accomplished photographer and environmental advocate based in the outdoor Mecca of Lake Tahoe. His path up to this point took a very unexpected detour when he was thrust into the world of big business and a move to China after the death of his father.   We talk about Ming's constant evolution from aspiring guide to expat executive to photographer, environmentalist and then father and how he takes each new challenge and incorporates it into his very rich life. LISTENTOSKIING

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