{"id":8232,"date":"2018-05-25T09:32:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/?p=8232"},"modified":"2020-09-11T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:30:37","slug":"reviewing-owen-leepers-2018-ski-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/reviewing-owen-leepers-2018-ski-season\/","title":{"rendered":"From 90-Foot Cliff Drops to Backcountry Pond Skims: Reviewing Owen Leeper&#8217;s 2018 Ski Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jackson Hole Skiing 90 foot Front Flip, Huge cliffs, Powder &amp; Straightlines! | Owen Leeper\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qfLxuo4HkS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>For a guy recovering from shoulder surgery, Owen Leeper got after it<\/strong> during the 2018 ski season. If you count front flipping off\u00a0massive cliffs as &#8220;getting after it,&#8221; that is. I&#8217;m going to assume you do.<\/p>\n<p>Although he&#8217;ll still be skiing likely every month until the official start of the 2019 season, we talked with Owen about his best\u2014and worst\u2014moments plus his favorite\u2014and gnarliest\u2014lines from the winter gone by.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How&#8217;s the spring\/summer skiing going? How much longer do you think you&#8217;ll be skiing in Jackson?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s still quite a bit of snow up high. Now in the park it\u2019s about an hour approach to when you start skinning. The tram at Jackson Hole is open, so you can get some laps off the top. It\u2019s a little limited with what you can do up there, though, to make it worth it. We should be skiing through the end of June here. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For after that, there\u2019s this guy who wants to shoot a video down in Argentina, so I\u2019m headed down there August 1. Bariloche for a week, and then Icelantic is doing a trip down to Las Le<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00f1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as September 1. So two trips down to Argentina this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8237\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jackson-backcountry-pc-Sasha-motivala.1.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Leeper's 2018 ski season backcountry pond skim\" width=\"900\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jackson-backcountry-pc-Sasha-motivala.1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jackson-backcountry-pc-Sasha-motivala.1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jackson-backcountry-pc-Sasha-motivala.1-768x550.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why resort pond skim when you can backcountry pond skim? | PHOTO: Sasha Motivala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>How was the snow in Jackson this winter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was really good, especially up high. Off the Tram and in the backcountry was great. Tougher down low. It rained a few times down there. Overall it was a bit above average for the five winters that I\u2019ve been here so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where else did you ski this winter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a little slower this year because of my shoulder surgery. So I was up around here until March, and then we went up to Canada for about 10 days. We hit Fernie and Revelstoke. That was the main trip of the winter. Then this spring, we tried to go up to Alaska, but we kinda got rained out up there around Haines and didn\u2019t really get to ski at all. So we left a week early, and I spent the second half of that trip down in Utah skiing Snowbird and Alta.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8240\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BC-Backcountry-PC-Sasha-Motivala.1.jpg\" alt=\"british columbia backcountry skiing owen leeper \" width=\"900\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BC-Backcountry-PC-Sasha-Motivala.1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BC-Backcountry-PC-Sasha-Motivala.1-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BC-Backcountry-PC-Sasha-Motivala.1-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen Leeper skied his most aesthetic lines in the British Columbia backcountry this season. | PHOTO: Sasha Motivala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>How was Fernie?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had never been to Fernie. There\u2019s some good terrain in-bounds, but the best part up there is the really good side country.\u00a0The funny thing there is that you can\u2019t ski it while the lifts are open. The backcountry runs come down on top of groomed, easier skiing, so they don\u2019t want people setting off avalanches and killing tourists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you wait up top in the backcountry until the lifts close. And then you can ski backcountry right off the top and back to the resort. It\u2019s a unique thing. You\u2019d get up there at 3:30 and wait until Ski Patrol goes down and then you can ski these really neat chutes all the way back down. It was really cool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where did you have your best day of the winter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The best day\u2014really four days\u2014was over at Targhee. It was one of their biggest storms of the winter. They got 55 inches in three days, and Julian Carr called me up and asked if I wanted to meet him over there. Off the backside, Targhee is known for these huge cliffs that you can jump off. So we went back there and hit some of the biggest cliffs of my life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Diving Board is this 70-footer that we hit three times, and then we did a couple simul-airs of these smaller 45-foot cliffs. One of the days, it just kept snowing. It was probably 30 inches just that day. You could ski about eight turns before you had to stop to let the snow settle down so you could see the trees so you could keep going. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was definitely the deepest snow I\u2019ve ever skied and the biggest cliffs I\u2019ve ever jumped off. So it was probably the highlight of not only the year but my ski career so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Skier Owen Leeper Flips Diving Board Cliff in Targhee Backcountry POV\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nnez_VizUwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>You said you guys went about 90 feet on one hit. What&#8217;s the secret to landing a massive air like that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On any big cliff, you\u2019re basically trying to land as parallel to the slope as possible so you don\u2019t knee yourself in the face or end up breaking your neck or leg or something. But the snow was so deep that you\u2019d air off and land basically flat on your back because it was too big and not steep enough to be able to stomp it. You\u2019d land and just get buried about eight feet deep. So the main thing there is making sure you have someone above you to pull you out if you can\u2019t get out on your own. Pretty scary if the snow starts falling in on you. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your sketchiest moment of the season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was skiing in the Once is Enough Couloir off Cody Peak in my normal boots but a different ski that wasn\u2019t mounted correctly. I made one jump-turn, and both of my heels came out, so I started sliding on my stomach down this rocky chute and almost went off this 40-foot cliff into rocks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gnarliest line?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Probably the scariest one was at Jackson, and it\u2019s called Three Times a Lady. It takes a bunch of snow to fill in, and it didn\u2019t fill in this year until the second-to-last week of the season. It\u2019s this pinner couloir that\u2019s not wide enough to make turns in, so you basically have to work your way through it and then straight line out the bottom. It\u2019s probably 300-400 vertical feet that you have to straight line, and then you pop out in this bowl, so it\u2019s probably 1,000 feet total. That was pretty much the tightest one\u2014my skis were basically touching both walls.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8235\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/3-times-a-lady.1.jpg\" alt=\"couloir skiing jackson hole \" width=\"900\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/3-times-a-lady.1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/3-times-a-lady.1-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/3-times-a-lady.1-768x637.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point and shoot. | PHOTO: Owen Leeper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Best view?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We brought our snowmobiles up on our trip to Fernie and Revy, and one day we went up and were able to sled up into the alpine on this huge glacier overlooking The Bugaboos, these huge granite peaks in BC. We were sledding and sled skiing up there, and it was definitely the best backdrop I saw all winter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite ski?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Icelantic Nomad 115 is my go-to. It\u2019s perfect for Jackson because it\u2019s wide enough on powder days but it\u2019s got camber underfoot so you can charge through all the crud. All the terrain around Jackson requires some kind of crud skiing or tighter jump turns in couloirs. So it\u2019s definitely the best one for all that.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8239\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/targhee-PC-Jana-Rogers.jpg\" alt=\"targhee backcountry skiing owen leeper\" width=\"900\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/targhee-PC-Jana-Rogers.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/targhee-PC-Jana-Rogers-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/targhee-PC-Jana-Rogers-768x620.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Off the backside, Targhee is known for these huge cliffs that you can jump off. So we went back there and hit some of the biggest cliffs of my life.&#8221; | PHOTO: Jana Rogers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Favorite song?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ll listen to music on the hike up or if I\u2019m skiing in bounds by myself. It\u2019s not a safe idea for the backcountry. But I usually just throw on a Pandora station and see what comes on. Anything that\u2019s upbeat and makes you want to ski faster rather than slower. Electronic, like Calvin Harris type stuff. When you\u2019re skiing, you can\u2019t hear the words anyway. You just hear the beat and that gets your tempo going. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Go-to snack?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I always have a couple Power Bars in my pocket. But my go-to is trail mix, and it\u2019s gotta have double the chocolate. I usually add another bag of M&amp;Ms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite beer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s usually the cheap stuff, usually Rainier. That or PBR. It\u2019s cheap and in a can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What&#8217;s one thing you didn&#8217;t do this year that you want to do next winter?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haines is definitely on the trip list for next spring, and I\u2019d love to go over to Europe and ski some of the couloirs around Chamonix and Zermatt. I\u2019ve been over there once and basically saw everything I\u2019d like to ski but didn\u2019t get a chance to. So that would be my goal for next year, to go spend a couple weeks over there skiing big peaks and couloirs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Powder7 Skier Owen Leeper Skis 55 Inches of Powder in Targhee Backcountry\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5hhkIcDkY-0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Get to know Powder7&#8217;s first sponsored athlete: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/owen-leeper-interview\/\">Owen Leeper<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a guy recovering from shoulder surgery, Owen Leeper got after it during the 2018 ski season. 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