It鈥檚 nearly impossible to watch , the latest film from Teton Gravity Research, and not fantasize about climbing into the helicopter with skiers Angel Collinson and Elyse Saugstad in search of ridiculously steep lines in Alaska. In true TGR fashion, the film has plenty of powder-porn moments, but it also captures the camaraderie of 23 skiers and snowboarders who live the lifestyle we mortals dream about. TGR鈥檚 founders, brothers Steve and Todd Jones, hope to give their fans a taste of that by branching into the travel space with a new hotel and TGR-athlete-hosted trips.

Former pro skiers and Alaska heli-ski guides in the 1990s, the Jones brothers have been eyeing the travel industry for over ten听years. 鈥淎 lot of people reach out, telling us they want deeper immersion into the TGR lifestyle and access to our athletes,鈥� Steve says. 鈥淲e鈥檙e kind of like the Disney of action sports.听We create content, our athletes aren鈥檛 unlike Disney characters, we just needed a resort.鈥�

Fittingly, its听first hotel project, , is located in the company鈥檚 birthplace of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and named for TGR鈥檚 flagship , which听starred the third Jones brother, snowboarder Jeremy. According to Steve, the original plan was to launch a TGR restaurant, bar, and retail space in Teton Village. But when a hotel developer caught wind of the听project, he approached them about collaborating on a TGR-branded property. Set slopeside, in what used to be the Inn at Jackson Hole, Continuum had its soft opening November 28 and will have its grand opening in January.听

While TGR won鈥檛 manage day-to-day operations, it is听in charge of curating all the hotel experiences, which are meant to bring the brand to life. The lobby features a TGR virtual-reality experience that allows guests to put on goggles and get into a helicopter with Angel Collinson or ride a wave with surfer Rob Machado. Guests will also have the opportunity to join local and visiting TGR athletes, like skiers Tim Durtschi, Sage Cattabriga-Alosa, and Kai Jones听(son of TGR鈥檚 Todd Jones), mountain biker Casey Brown, and big-wave surfer Ian Walsh, on year-round adventures nearby, ranging from first-tracks ski sessions to mountain-bike excursions. There are plans for an apr猫s-with-athletes series, too, and in the off-season, Continuum will host film-editing workshops led by TGR鈥檚 noted crew.听A natural venue for film screenings, the hotel will launch its movie series on December 11, with TGR鈥檚 new Grateful Dead鈥搕hemed flick听.听The event will be hosted by director and skier Chris Benchetler 鈥嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�媋nd Machado.

The hotel has 83 rooms, from lofts with kitchenettes to affordable double queens, starting at $119 a night. Steve admits the modern-minimalist design鈥攂lond听wood, polished concrete, gray and black textiles鈥攊s a bit more upscale than he and Todd anticipated, but the vibe is purely TGR, particularly in the new lounge and bar area. Apr猫s-ski is intended to draw guests and locals, with flat-screen TVs streaming TGR classics, a retractable bar that spills out to a heated pool and a 25-person hot tub, and signature TGR cocktails named after films like The Continuum (double Jack and Coke) and Tangerine Dream (tequila, lime, and energy drink). Steve insists the prices won鈥檛 offend locals. 鈥淲e talked a lot about what we were going to do for the people who live here,鈥� he says. 鈥淲e鈥檙e working on a local rewards program and discounts for events.鈥� He adds that they tried to hire people to work at the hotel who have听TGR DNA. 鈥淗ow cool is it to realize your bartender is the guy you just shared 15 tram rides with.听We鈥檙e really trying to create an adventure community.鈥�

鈥淭odd and I have lived in Jackson nearly 30 years, and we鈥檝e seen these exclusive properties, like Caldera House and the Four Seasons, move in,鈥� he says. 鈥淎nd then you have the hostels. There was a demand for something in between. Continuum is sophisticated and modern but merges the fun vibes inherent in TGR culture.鈥� Sleep, shred, party, drink, repeat is the philosophy.

At a decidedly different price point, the brand has also launched , multi-day experiences meant to recreate the thrill of some of its听most iconic footage, like the Alaska powder scenes from Winterland. While TGR has done one-off camps and trips in the past, these new outings are highly curated, pairing guests one-on-one with guides, TGR athletes, and cinematographers. 鈥淲e pump out content with the tagline 鈥楲ive the dream,鈥櫶齛nd people want to live the dream,鈥� says Steve. 鈥淲e get inquiries all the time about trips. People tell us they went to Alaska, but their trip didn鈥檛 look anything like what they saw in our films. We don鈥檛 want to be a heli business, but we can pair people with the operators we work with and our TGR experts.鈥�

Last winter, Triple Point Expeditions in Palmer, Alaska, hosted the TGR team for a month while it听shot footage for Winterland. This winter听the heli operator will serve as base camp for the first Fantasy Trips. For $125,000听for a week, a group听of six can request听a TGR athlete of their听choice (based on availability) or a TGR filmmaker or, for an additional $5,000, both. The hefty price includes lodging, meals, a guide, fat skis or snowboards, avalanche gear, a TGR gift bag, and the opportunity to help with the custom edit of your footage. Steve says they are looking to test-run trips in Japan and add surf and mountain-bike trips based on the same model.

鈥淭his next chapter for TGR really sets us apart,鈥� he says. 鈥淣ever with any degree of arrogance do we say we don鈥檛 have competitors, because we do. There鈥檚 Warren Miller, Patagonia, Vice, Red Bull. But that鈥檚 across different categories. What we鈥檙e doing is completely unique. It鈥檚 been an evolution of the brand from film to lifestyle.鈥�

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Behind every successful mountain athlete is a team of supportive parents, friends, coaches, or听partners.听We see the end results as a lifetime of first ascents and descents, medals and awards, but rarely do we get a glimpse at their mentors, who helped blaze the trail.

For these听eight climbers and skiers, the most powerful and lasting lessons are rarely听about technical skills听but those less tangible things, like how to learn from failure,听find intrinsic motivation, and make decisions in the mountains. What it seems to boil down to isn鈥檛 a transfer of knowledge so听much as validation鈥攈aving someone in your corner, as professional rock climber Kai Lightner puts it, who unconditionally believes in you.

Here鈥檚 what these听successful outdoor athletes told听us about the mentors who shaped their lives.

Angel Collinson, 29, big-mountain skier

Lesson: Don鈥檛 be afraid to say no.听听

鈥淲丑别苍 first asked me to go film in Alaska, which was the big-dog trip, I was like, 鈥楢re you guys sure? I鈥檝e never film-skied before, I don鈥檛 know what I鈥檓 doing, you鈥檝e never met me.鈥櫶齀t was an intense situation as a rookie, but Sage Cattabriga-Alosa and Ian McIntosh, pro big-mountain听skiers, met me with such patience. Feeling like you鈥檙e a part of the team听and not a burden is the greatest gift you could ask for when you鈥檙e entering something new.鈥�

鈥淔irst and foremost, the biggest lesson they taught me was:听never be afraid to say no听and step away. When you鈥檝e been studying a line for weeks, and the film crew is ready, it鈥檚 hard not to have tunnel vision听and miss the signs. But if it doesn鈥檛 feel right鈥攚hether it鈥檚 in skiing or anything else in life鈥擨鈥檓 comfortable saying no, because I鈥檝e seen those guys do it. They鈥檒l be up there, and they鈥檒l be like, 鈥榊ou know, I don鈥檛 like the way this looks.听Can I get plucked?鈥欌��

鈥淚t鈥檚 really powerful when you see your mentors walking the walk.鈥�

Steve House, 49, alpinist, author, and cofounder of听

Lesson: Understand your decisions.

鈥淭he most impactful mentor I鈥檝e had was Ljubo, a guy I met during the year I spent abroad in Slovenia. He was in his late twenties, about ten听years older than I was, and the only person I met there who spoke English. I climbed with Ljubo maybe 100听days that year.鈥�

鈥淚 didn鈥檛 realize he was a mentor at the time. He was vastly more experienced than I was, but he didn鈥檛 talk down to me or treat me like a student. I knew I didn鈥檛 know that much, and that he knew more than I did, but he treated me as a partner听and would explain his decision-making, thought processes, and reasoning.鈥�

鈥淎lpinism is a continuous series of life-and-death decisions that begin with planning and end when you step off the mountain. We tend to focus on technical skills, but it鈥檚 errors in decision-making that typically kill people. The problem is, judgment is virtually impossible to teach, and I think the way you teach it is how Ljubo taught it,听by vocalizing his entire thought process. If you can鈥檛 explain why you came to a certain conclusion, then you don鈥檛 know enough. You鈥檙e just guessing, and you can鈥檛 be guessing in the mountains.鈥�

, 28, cross-country skier,听Olympic gold medalist

Lesson: Be your own judge.

鈥淚鈥檝e had so many mentors in different areas of life, including my parents, who taught me how to ski, but my high school coach, Kris Hanson, left the greatest听impression on me. She cared about my teammates and me听as complete people, not just machines to create results.鈥�

鈥淜ris recognized I was very type A听and someone who put a lot of pressure on myself. So听she would tell me, 鈥楢fter every race, before you look at the results, I want you to think of three things you did well听and three things you could improve on.鈥櫶鼴ecause no matter how well听a race went, you鈥檙e always going to have room for improvement. And no matter how poorly you think you did, you鈥檙e still going to have at least three things where you can say to yourself, 鈥榊ou know what?听I did this well.鈥櫶齋he taught me how to be the judge of my own performance鈥攏ot the results, not the newspapers, not my name on some piece of paper鈥攁nd at the end of the day, I have to be satisfied with the effort I put forth. I think that was key to me being here almost ten听years later, just loving what I鈥檓 doing.鈥�

Kitty Calhoun, 59, alpinist, guide, co-owner of听

Lesson: Keep plugging away.

鈥淚鈥檓 from South Carolina听and got into ice climbing when I went to the University of Vermont. An epic on [New Hampshire鈥檚]听Mount Washington got me interested in alpine climbing, but I didn鈥檛 know any alpinists. I didn鈥檛 have heroes, because I didn鈥檛 like reading about climbing鈥擨 just wanted to go climbing. So听I went out west.鈥�

鈥淚n Wyoming, I met Lyle Dean, and he became my first and biggest mentor. Since we were both interested in winter ascents, we jumped right in and tried a bunch of routes in the Tetons, Cascades, and Palisades. He was a few years younger than me听but a more experienced climber, so he took the harder leads, and I observed. I watched how he solved problems, and I think that鈥檚 been听my biggest takeaway from him. He鈥檚 methodical, well prepared, and takes his time to make sure he does things right. He鈥檚 also sharp, doesn鈥檛 give up easily, and has a minimalist approach to climbing.鈥�

鈥淚 saw how these traits worked and were effective, and I guess I subconsciously copied him. I鈥檓 not a gifted athlete, but I had a drive to learn听and kept plugging away at it. I鈥檝e definitely made mistakes, but fortunately, I鈥檓 still here. The more you can learn from others that have been there, done that, the better off you are. I feel pretty fortunate that he happened to be in the right place at the right time in my life.鈥�

Kai Lightner, 20, rock climber, 12-time national champion

Lesson: Know how to fail.

鈥淲丑别苍 I started climbing, it was a super weird sport for my community, especially growing up in a predominately black area in the South. So听when I went into听 for the first time, when I was six years old, my mom begged the man at the front desk to teach me, so I could burn some energy. That man was听, and he鈥檚 been my coach ever since.鈥�

鈥淪hane鈥檚 not only been an essential part of my climbing听but also my life. He taught me how to conduct myself in public settings and in competitions. He taught me how to fail, assess those failures, then turn them into learning experiences. He taught me how to turn hard work into results, knowing it鈥檚 not about the short-term听but the long-term goals. Coaches are life teachers, too.鈥�

鈥淎nd of course, my mom is superwoman, obviously. She would come from her nine-to-five job to pick me up, bring me to the gym, and belay me for another four hours, then take me home to feed me and help me with my homework. She鈥檚 my accountant, my chauffeur, my belayer, my therapist, my everything, honestly. My mother taught me resilience and perseverance听and how to put up a strong front, because she is the strongest person I know. I don鈥檛 know what I鈥檇 be if I didn鈥檛 have her in my corner.鈥�

Andres Marin, 36, climber, guide,听 recipient

Lesson: Be good, be kind, be happy.

鈥淏ack in the late nineties, Colombia was going through a crazy political situation鈥攑retty much a civil war鈥攁nd the outdoors wasn鈥檛 something we had the opportunity to enjoy. People didn鈥檛 really go to the mountains, because that鈥檚 where the war was taking place. When I moved to the United States in 2002, I was able to experience the full power of the outdoors. You can go to the mountains, the rivers, the woods whenever you want听and never really worry about something happening to you. So听I started climbing as much as I could. In my journeys, I鈥檝e had the opportunity to run across people who have created a huge impact on who I am now.鈥�

鈥� and I took a guide course together, and then she offered me a job afterward, helping with听climbing comps.听 was working for her as well, so I had the opportunity to climb with him in Indian Creek [in Utah]听and learn from one of the best off-width climbers in the world. When I started moving toward Ouray [in Colorado], where I wanted to live, I had the opportunity to climb with , one of the best ice climbers and soloists in the world.鈥�

鈥淭hese encounters were totally by chance, and I feel so lucky to have learned from some of the best people on the planet. I also realized they鈥檙e humans, just like myself, who focused on something until they became really good. What I have learned through them all is not so much the climbing skills听but the more personal side of things, like who we are as humans, our interactions听with other people and nature, and how to create a legacy for future generations. I learned a mantra from Conrad Anker: be good, be kind, be happy.鈥�

Conrad Anker, 56, alpinist, father, first to ascend听Meru鈥檚 Shark鈥檚 Fin

Lesson: Find validation.

鈥淭he first time I met [Terrance]听鈥楳ugs鈥� Stump was in the parking lot of the Gate Buttress, a climbing area near Salt Lake City, following my after-the-rainstorm solo circuit. I鈥檇 try to do all the 5.7鈥檚, 5.9鈥檚 looking for booty鈥攇ear other climbers left behind to bail. And Mugs was down in the parking lot. It was like, Whoa, there鈥檚 the man. He鈥檚 six foot tall, walking on water.听He was 14 years older than me听and the first person I had as a mentor.鈥�

鈥淲e started climbing together that summer, but he said, 鈥業鈥檓 not going to do the big mountains with you until you鈥檝e climbed Denali and El Cap.鈥櫶齀f you鈥檙e going to be a mountain climber, those are the two. You learn winter camping on Denali, and on El Cap, you get all the skills needed for technical big walls. He would push me to climb harder听and would be like, 鈥榃ell, we both know I can lead this.听Can you?鈥櫶齋o听I would cinch up my harness and go for it. He handed the sharp end over to me. That someone of his caliber gave me the stamp of approval was pretty key. It validated who I was as a young climber.鈥�

鈥淚 was 29 when Mugs died. When you鈥檙e that age and you lose someone, it places a听burden on you.听In my journal, there are听32 people that have gone before their time. A lot of falling, a lot of moving snow. I see the burden now with the youngsters when they鈥檙e going through it. I have a friend, Timothy Tate, who鈥檚 71, and he鈥檚 a mentor听for sure. He鈥檚 a philosopher, a thinker, an intellectual, so to say, and he鈥檚 helping me become who I am in reaching out to young people with loss and grief, which is something we鈥檙e not collectively talking much about.鈥�

Kit DesLauriers, 49, ski mountaineer, mother, first person to ski the Seven Summits

Lesson: Believe in yourself.

鈥淢y mom wanted to be a sports-news broadcaster when she was young, and that was just not acceptable at the time. So听when I was growing up, she would say to me, 鈥楧on鈥檛 ever let anybody tell you there鈥檚 something you can鈥檛 do, especially because you鈥檙e a woman.鈥櫶齌hat set the bar for me.鈥�

鈥淚n 2004, I won the Freeskiing World Championship. The next season, I was riding a chairlift at Jackson [in Wyoming] with somebody I had just met, and he asked me if I was going to compete again. I said, 鈥業 don鈥檛 know.听What for? You don鈥檛 make any money, and I already proved to myself that I could do it.鈥櫶鼳nd he said, 鈥榊ou鈥檝e got to. I鈥檝e never seen another woman ski like you. I鈥檇 like to sponsor you.鈥櫶鼿e literally wrote me a check听and said to spend it on skiing. I said to him, 鈥榃hat do you want me to do in exchange?鈥櫶鼳nd he said, 鈥楯ust pay it forward. For instance, if a girls鈥� after-school program wants you to come speak to them, I hope you would.鈥櫶鼿e taught me how to give back, and his financial support enabled me to continue to pursue skiing. But听more importantly, what that really meant was he believed in me.鈥�

鈥淎s a kid, I asked my dad, 鈥楬ow come you鈥檙e not giving me a dollar for every A听I get in school?鈥櫶鼳nd he said, 鈥楤ecause you should want to do well for yourself.鈥櫶鼿e was who I called听after solo climbing and skiing the Grand [Teton] or winning the world championships. When I鈥檇 call to tell him the news, he would respond,听鈥楥ourse you did,听Kit. You鈥檙e the only one who wasn鈥檛 sure.鈥欌��

鈥淲e often hold ourselves back, but through the kindness and compassion of others, anything is possible.鈥�

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Men think they know everything about exercise, and we all know where that can lead: bad backs, concussions, and rusty knees. It鈥檚 time to take a few tips from women, like these seven athletes who balance toughness, grace, strength, and fun to create a powerful combination that endures.听

Find Your Own Way

Angel Collinson
26, big-mountain skier

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As a junior ski racer, had a coach and a sports psychologist, and she put off college by a year to focus entirely on training. Then, at 18, she missed out on making the U.S. Ski Team. 鈥淚 took it as a sign,鈥� says Collinson, who lives in Salt Lake City. So she switched to freeskiing and diversified her approach, experimenting with a vegetarian diet, practicing visualization, and cross-training on a mountain bike. All that trial and error worked鈥攕he won the Free Skiing World Tour in 2010 and 2011, and was named Freeskier 尘补驳补锄颈苍别鈥檚 2015 skier of the year. Collinson now thinks of her sport as play rather than work. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 been the biggest change for me in performing at the next level,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 do better when I鈥檓 having fun.鈥�

Think Long-Term

Emelie Forsberg
29, ultrarunner and ski mountaineer

Women and men both reach their physical peak in their late twenties. But wants to run until she鈥檚 80. To that end, if she has a workout scheduled and isn鈥檛 feeling it, she鈥檒l go do something else. 鈥淚 have a professional mind for training, but I try to keep the happiness,鈥� says the Swede, who makes her home in Mandalen, Norway. Even though she鈥檚 won gold medals in the Skyrunner World Series and the ultrarunning World Championships, maintaining her passion always comes before competing. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 want to ever lose the joy that I have for running,鈥� she says.

Don鈥檛 Get Comfortable

Amelia Boone
32, obstacle racer and ultrarunner

, an attorney in San Jose, California, has won almost everything there is to win on the obstacle-racing circuit, including and the . Which is why she recently turned to ultramarathons. 鈥淚 had to find the next big challenge to keep things fresh and motivating,鈥� she says. Boone now runs trails before work. But it might soon be time for yet another new endeavor. She outran everyone鈥攎en and women鈥攁t a recent race and placed second in the super-competitive Sean O鈥橞rien 100K.听

Mix It Up

Hilaree 翱鈥橬别颈濒濒
43, skier and mountaineer

鈥淎lpinism is unpredictable and draws on all aspects of your body and mind,鈥� says , who summited both Everest and Lhotse within 24 hours in 2012 and has pioneered dozens of first ski descents on mountains around the world. So her training regimen can鈥檛 be too regimented. The Telluride, Colorado, resident keeps fit by mountain biking, trail running, ski mountaineering, and doing yoga. To learn to adapt in the mountains, 翱鈥橬别颈濒濒 constantly adds things to her repertoire that she isn鈥檛 experienced in, like triathlons and ultramarathons. 鈥淚 find it more intriguing and fun,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 also think it鈥檚 better for overall fitness.鈥�

Be Dedicated

Ashima Shiraishi
15, climber

Shiraishi scales walls better than almost anyone in the world. She鈥檚 the youngest person to send a V13 boulder problem and the first woman ever to climb a 5.15. But it鈥檚 her singular focus that sets her apart. Unlike most athletes in her sport, she doesn鈥檛 do any strength training or flexibility work. She just climbs鈥攁 lot. For the past nine years she鈥檚 spent four hours almost every day honing her technique. 鈥淵ou听can get sick of climbing even if you love it,鈥� says Shiraishi, who lives in Manhattan. 鈥淏ut I guess it鈥檚 like marriage. It can be tough, but you stick with it because you love it.鈥�

Back Off

Carissa Moore
24, surfer

Hard workouts break your body down. But so do the physical and mental demands of spending nine months a year ping-ponging between international events. Which is why , who鈥檚 from Honolulu, makes sure to block out some downtime. 鈥淲丑别苍 I try to train too hard too fast, I get sick,鈥� she says. 鈥淭ime off to rest and do yoga is fundamental in keeping me injury-free.鈥� The mental breaks help her come back stronger鈥攕he鈥檚 won three of the past five WSL Women鈥檚 World Tour titles.

Be Patient听

Rebecca Rusch
48, mountain biker

says her experience as a mountain-bike coach in her hometown of Ketchum, Idaho, has taught her that women tend to be more cerebral in the way they train. 鈥淲e want to learn how to do things before muscling through,鈥� she says. That kind of scrupulousness can make for better form and more confidence. In other words, it鈥檚 OK to slow down sometimes. Also: it鈥檚 never too late to take up a new sport. Rusch, four-time winner of the Leadville 100 and a seven-time world champion, didn鈥檛 start mountain biking until she was 38.

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Last winter, Angel Collinson was deep in Alaska鈥檚 Neacola Mountains, a jagged subrange of the Aleutian Mountains about 120 miles southwest of Anchorage, in a zone that rarely sees skiers or climbers due to its rugged remoteness. For four weeks, Collinson lived out of a glorified tent city, population 13鈥攁ll athletes and filmmakers鈥攚ho鈥檇 been dropped there by bush plane to film , the latest ski flick from Teton Gravity Research.

On good days, Collinson and fellow skiers Ian McIntosh and Sage Cattabriga-Alosa would ride towering spines in glowing sunlight for the cameras. When the weather didn鈥檛 cooperate, they鈥檇 pass the time playing dice games in the tent.听

On the last day of the trip, with the weather and snow conditions prime for filming, the TGR team settled on skiing a zone the skiers called the Magic Kingdom. It was a toothy, shark fin of a peak with only a couple of high-consequence skiable lines that dropped over a blind rollover from the summit. 鈥淚 knew I was capable of skiing it,鈥� says Collinson, who鈥檚 25. 鈥淏ut it would be at the height of anything I鈥檇 ever done.鈥�

During a mellow warm-up run that morning, Collinson felt off鈥攎entally tired, a little slow to react. The weeks of high intensity skiing had set in, and she knew instinctually that it wasn鈥檛 the day to try something big. 鈥淚t was one of those situations where I didn鈥檛 want to talk myself into it,鈥� she says. 鈥淪ometimes there鈥檚 just that gut feeling you have to listen to and I did that day. I was worried I鈥檇 regret not stepping up to the plate, but instead I discovered this deep sense of trust in myself.鈥�

Bowing out of what could be the film鈥檚 best shot wasn鈥檛 an easy decision. TGR is one of the premier action sports video companies in the world and the king of ski porn, and has launched the career of many budding pro skiers like Todd Ligare听and Ian McIntosh. Inclusion in the studio鈥檚 films can secure an athlete鈥檚 reputation and livelihood and help attract mega sponsorship deals. That day in Alaska, Collinson told the filmmakers she wasn鈥檛 up for the challenge and instead skied an easier line on another face. Opting out took the courage of a pro鈥攁 skier with less self-confidence might have gone for it in spite of the danger鈥攁nd cemented Collinson鈥檚 status as an A-lister with TGR.

鈥淗er approach to the mountains is calm and calculated,鈥� says TGR co-founder Todd Jones. 鈥淪he鈥檚 not out there forcing it. When the mountains speak, she listens.鈥�

It turned out that Collinson didn鈥檛 even need that final day to turn in a staggering performance in Paradise Waits. She already had enough footage in the can from the previous weeks, flashing elevator-shaft steeps and airing cliffs with graceful fierceness, to create what the Ski Journal 鈥渢he burliest鈥攁nd most entertaining鈥攆emale film segment of all time.鈥� Her footage ended up earning her the coveted closing segment in Paradise Waits, marking the first time a woman has been selected for a TGR finale. The year prior, Collinson also broke barriers with the first female opening segment of a TGR film, in 2014鈥檚 . In fact, until Collinson showed up on the scene three years ago, the studio hadn鈥檛 featured a woman in a film in years.

That segment for Best Female Performance and Best Line (the first time a woman has won that, too) at the Powder Awards, at the International Freeski Film Festival, and she was named Freeskier 尘补驳补锄颈苍别鈥檚 for 2015.听

All that attention鈥攖he film segments, the awards, the media interviews鈥攕till feels a little foreign, Collinson says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 nice to be recognized for something you鈥檙e good at, but I honestly don鈥檛 like being in the limelight.鈥�

Collinson would certainly be entitled to an ego after the past couple of years she鈥檚 had: ski movie stardom, major awards, lucrative endorsement offers. But, according to those closest to her, that鈥檚 not her style. 鈥淔or Angel, it almost works the other way. The more success she has, the more humble she seems to get,鈥� says her brother, 23-year-old fellow pro skier John Collinson. 鈥淪he has always been, and I think always will be, grounded. Now she鈥檚 just learning how to deal with the stresses that come with success.鈥�

Collinson and her brother were bred into skiing. They grew up sharing a bunkbed in a closet-sized room in employee housing at the base of Snowbird, Utah, where their dad, Jimmy, was a ski patroller and snow-safety director for over 30 years. They were one of few families living in the dorm-style apartments.

Collinson鈥檚 mom, Deb, homeschooled her two children (and a couple other ski kids as well) inside a tiny schoolroom in the canyon. Each summer the family would pile into a 1979 blue Ford Econoline van and travel the west, climbing mountains like Whitney, Shasta, and Hood, and backpack for weeks on end. The Collinson kids took strongly to the outdoors. As a teenager, Angel, who鈥檚 two years older than her brother, was a world-class junior ski racer. At 17, John became the youngest person to climb the seven summits.听

When Collinson was 18, she narrowly missed the cut for the U.S. Ski Team, and as a result decided to pull the plug on gates. She earned a full academic scholarship at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City with the intention of pursuing a double major in environmental studies and philosophy. Shortly after enrolling, she signed up for her first big-mountain freeskiing contest.

In her听rookie year on the Freeskiing World Tour, in 2010, at age 19, Collinson won the overall women鈥檚 title. She won again in 2011.听In 2012听she听decided, as a sophomore, to put college on hold so that she could really focus on skiing. She doubled up and competed on both the American Freeskiing World Tour and the European Freeride World Tour, earning second place overall on both tours. She was known for her consistency in steep terrain鈥攕he鈥檇 pick a line nobody else would even see, then plunge in at top speed with utter confidence as the slope dropped away beneath her.

Her results were strong enough to catch the eyes of TGR鈥檚 filmmakers and, in 2013, while waiting in the tram line at Snowbird, she got the call inviting her to join the crew for her first major听foray in Alaska鈥攖o听Knik Glacier, a remote part of the Chugach Mountains. She has since been featured in three TGR films.听

Rather than focus on promoting herself on social media, which has become an essential part of making a living as a pro athlete, Collinson would rather that her ski style鈥攃omposed, calculated, fast鈥攕peaks for itself. 鈥淪kiing has always been my freedom and my happy place. Now all of a sudden, people are paying attention to it,鈥� she says. 鈥淲hat鈥檚 that quote? 鈥榃ith great power comes great responsibility.鈥� I know I can use my voice in meaningful ways. But sometimes I want to be that 16-year-old nobody with my headphones on doing Snowbird tram laps and not talking to anybody.鈥�

But while Collinson has the attention, she intends to use it. Applying her notoriety to environmental causes is her latest focus. She鈥檚 teamed up with the non-profit organization to lobby for climate change policy on the streets of Washington, D.C. She penned a November 2015 op-ed for 国产吃瓜黑料 about the impact of Utah鈥檚 power plants on the state鈥檚 air quality. She also works with the Sierra Club on various climate change and clean air projects.听

This winter, Collinson says her primary goal is simply to film another quality segment with TGR. Eventually, she wants to go back to school and focus on environmental policy. But for now, she鈥檚 working to improve on the slopes. 鈥淲丑别苍 I see my footage, I always see the things I could have done better,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 always feel like I have more in the tank.鈥澨�

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Freeskier Angel Collinson announced that she has signed with Team , whose roster includes such big-name skiers as Jenn Berg, Seth Morrison, and Grete Eliassen. Also on Team Backcountry.com is Collinson's brother, Johnny, with whom she shares a strong skiing pedigree. As children the siblings split a five-by-twelve-foot bedroom in the employee housing of Utah's Snowbird Ski Resort, where their father continues to work in the snow safety department.

, 20, exploded on the freeskiing scene this year, taking both the overall title in the U.S.-based and placing second in the Europe-based . This was just her second season competing in both tours. On her way to the podium, Collinson also had to endure the loss of her boyfriend, freeskiier , who passed away in March from injuries sustained during a competition at Kirkwood, California.

In the off season, Collinson attends the University of Utah where she's studying environmental law on full academic scholarship.

No doubt both Collinsons will be worth keeping an eye on in upcoming seasons.

–Michael Webster

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