Jemsnot sure how many people who relate, but i personally looked up to all the older kids at hyland when i first started out. I didn’t look up to any skiers with a large social media presence. Watching guys like pbone, connor johnson and tom kelley had a lot of influence on my future skiing.
I looked up to a lot of the older kids at my mountain. They weren’t actually too much older but they had been skiing for a lot longer than me but their style on rails was just so cool to me. A lot of them were in the street film Capital Punishment that dropped earlier this year
Like all of them moved away to utah now and there’s less people on hill bringing that same energy. Just a ton of 12-14 year olds who all they wanna do is 4 swaps on a fat tube all day.