Low Pressure Podcast: Skiing's First Podcast

Simon D'Artois is Canadian Olympian and X-Games Gold Medalist in the halfpipe   He came to LPP fresh off his experiences at the Peyongchang Olympic games.

Michelle fills us in on her current filming projects with MSP and Redbull including a wild mission to Western Australia to test her limits of performance and endurance.  We also talk about singing and playing music, house renovations,  contract negotiations, self awareness, and the importance of humility and being present

Nikolai Schirmer is working on his weekly web series, "Schirmer in the Field", a running documentary on ski culture, seen through his eyes during his travels and experiences.   We chat we talk about the process of completing his weekly episodes,   his home in Norway way above the Arctic Circle, learning how to sled in BC, Law School and how all of these tie together.

Kajsa Larsson and Malou Peterson join us to talk about their new web series KM Days.  This winter the two young skiers from Sweden have been releasing a weekly episode of their adventures traveling around Canada. The two met on a surf trip in Biarritz, France and while sitting on their boards waiting for waves. They hatched a plan to move to Revelstoke, BC and spend a season documenting their life...

Originally from SLC, Freeride World Tour veteran,  Drew Tabke,  now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest.  We sat down in the basement of a fancy ski-in ski-out chalet at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort where he talks about the spending the last 13 years travelling and skiing with the Tour.   We talk about the fraternity of skiers and how travel and competition, tragedy and triumph all contribute...

This episode is a full, behind the scenes look into a week at Freeride World Tour.  Recorded during the event in Golden BC at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort.

Greg Hill, is a skier, guide, and environmentalist who is leading the way by proving what we can do to become sustainable adventurers.   It's a a theme that is building momentum within our community and Greg, with help from his skiing and travel partner Chris Rubens, is leading the charge.   Travelling to ski and adventure in the mountains has a big carbon footprint and Greg is doing his best to f...

McKenna Peterson's life has been very closely tied to and influenced by her family.  In the Winter she grew up in Sun Valley Idaho skiing with her parents and her siblings.  In the Summer the clan hopped on a commercial fishing boat and sailed North to Alaska.  Her life changed last year with the passing of her father who was the victim of an avalanche. As a professional skier,   being in the moun...

Thayne grew up in the Church of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake city Utah before deciding at age 15 that the Church wasn't how he wanted to live his life.   Having an understanding and supportive family has been key to Thayne's development as a skier and as a person.   It's proven in the way he carries himself and in the respect he shows others and the people who continue to influence him. In this...

Marcus Caston is a skiing purist.   The SLC native believes that we should all be back on straight, skinny skis for the sole reason that it will separate the good from the average.   Marcus, who's turns and face shots have graced the cover of many a popular ski mag, talks about a lot of the contrasts in today's ski culture.  Blackcomb vs Whistler,  Alta vs Snowbird,   hucking big cliffs  vs throwi...

Aussie freeskier Nat Segal is here this week with a very entertaining conversation about,  "Finding the Line"  the new documentary ski film.  The the theme of the film, which she's making with her sister and former Olympian skier Anna Segal, is based on fear.  The two of them analyze fear and how it affects them and their decision making in the mountains, and how they each approach and tackle it d...

The first ever LPP guest, Ian McIntosh returns and joins us for a fantastic conversation to bookend our first 100 episodes! Ian McIntosh is a thinker and a planner.  I don't know if you could catch him unprepared.  This is equally true with his life away from skiing.    In the four and a half years since our first conversation, a lot has changed in his life, some good, some bad but you'll notice w...

Alex Beaulieu Marchand otherwise known as ABM has been skiing since he was in diapers.   His parents would actually change them on the gondola in between laps.  It seems like getting started at such an early age has done wonders for ABM.  He tells us about being surprised with a spot as the only Canadian to compete in Slopestyle at the Sochi Olympics as a 19 year old and his outlook for the upcomi...

My old friend Chad Sayers has been a world traveller and adventurer for the better part of the last 2 decades.   Known mainly for appearing in countless ski publications as well as Jordan Manley's fantastic,  "A Skier's Journey" film series,  Chad is currently compiling stories and photos from his lifetime of adventures for a new book he is writing. From this conversation, I gather that Chad seems...

Seeking Nirvana.  It's something we all should strive for.  If you're having troubles finding it yourself, perhaps you should just watch these guys then.  Pro skiers, Mike Henituik, Matt Margetts, Joe Schuster, Riley Leboe have known each other for a long time and all have years of  individual success within the ski industry.  The crew has been skiing for various film companies or competing in the...

Chris "Rooster" James and Geoff McDonald created,  SKI THE EAST,  the rally cry and East coast skiing's main identifier.  The two friends met in college while creating a "Jackass" style show for the campus' TV station.  After multiple citations and several threats of getting kicked of school filming stunts for "Meathead Films",  the two took the energy they put into jeopardizing their education wi...

It can't be measured what Jason Levinthal has done for the ski industry. He is an innovator. The steps he's taken his entire career, whether he is aware of it or not, has progressed our sport not only with the equipment we use but also with the way we do business.

This week we have German Freeskier, Sven Kueenle.   I connected with Sven while at the IF3 festival in Montreal. He was there to support the latest Legs of Steel film, "Same Difference" .   Sven spent more time travelling to the event than he was able to spend there having to go back to Germany for an appearance on a late night German sports show.  Same Difference follows 3 different story lines a...

Right off the bat we wanted to find out how Tatum got her start in skiing.  She grew up in a family of skiers.  Her Grandfather, originally from Chamonix, was a mountain man,  her dad was a member of the Canadian Ski Team and the family business is, you guessed it, is a ski shop.  She wasn't forced into it though.  They let her decide when it was time.  When that time came.... she decided to snowb...

In this episode we continue to highlight New Zealand Club Field ski culture.   I've decided to zero in on one club in particular; Temple Basin.   Back in 2003, I spent a season working there and its one of those places I needed to return. Temple Basin is really unique, not only in the way it operates but also for its unreal terrain.  We timed our arrival perfectly and for the next 3 days we got to...

I went to NZ to dive a little deeper into New Zealand Ski culture.   Most people know about Wanaka and Queenstown and maybe Mt Hutt. These are the kinds of ski areas most of us are familiar with. Charlifts, snowmaking, groomed runs and big lodges full of coffee bars, pastries and inoffensive music. But there's another side of the Kiwi ski scene that you may not know about.   The Club Fields. What'...

James "Woodsy" Woods,  has been travelling the world competing on the Slopestyle and Big Air circuit for the better part of a decade.  He is still just as stoked about it now as he has ever been. While in Whistler, Woodsy came to the LPP Studios for a chat during his yearly visit to Momentum Ski Camps on the Horstman Glacier.  Born and raised in Sheffield  England,  he may seem like a bit of an an...

Chris Logan has spent most of the winter travelling around BC with Parker White and the Big Picture crew.  While in Whistler, as all skiers should, he stopped by the LPP Studios for a chat. Logan, a native of Long Island NY, tells us about going to "ski" school at Mt. Snow in Vermont.   It's not what you're thinking.  He went to a ski high school where he attended classes some of the time and went...

Swedish photographer, Daniel Rönnbäck stopped in at the LPP Studios while in Whistler to compete in the Olympus Pro Photographer Showdown at the World Ski and Snowboard festival. He decided to accept the invitation to the contest  because it happened to coincide perfectly with the JP Auclair Memorial event.  Daniel talks about shooting with JP as well as Andreas Fransson who happened to be a heavy...

Colter Hinchliffe made his way to Whistler this spring from his home in Aspen Colorado. We talk about his love for Aspen and the difference of types of skiing each of the mountains there have to offer.   Colter explains his, "clean line",  stance on backcountry safety and personal responsibility when travelling outside of  ski area boundaries as well as climbing, summer jobs and much more.  Enjoy!...