Girls of Winter X


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Gretchen Bleiler
 Chanelle Sladics

 Tara Dakides
 Leanne Pelosi
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Kristi Leskinen

 Grete Eliassen

 Priscilla Levac

 Sarah Burke

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Gretchen Bleiler

Gretchen-Bleiler2-160x130Ever since she was three Gretchen knew she wanted to go to the Olympics and in 2006 her dream came true. In spite of her drive to win, in life she's not competitive. "I am pretty nice most of the time as long as I am not hungry. If you don¹t feed me I can be a real witch."

Chanelle Sladics

Chanelle Sladics 100x81"I was a weekend warrior no doubt, I was on the mountain every Sunday, doing the USSA events with my good guy friends from high school. My days on the hill were no comparison to my competitors, but I wanted to finish high school. I had to make a lot of sacrifices regarding my social life in high school, in order to start competing." - Chanelle

Tara Dakides

Tara Dakides 160x130"You know, the more I travel the less I need. I like my bags light. I have to have my Harley moto boots and a good pair of jeans, my computer, my digi camera, and my journal…some face care and conditioner are good to, but I gotta have my moto boots."- Tara

Leanne Pelosi

Leanne-Pelosi-160x130_2"My parents got my brother and I this plastic snowboard from a Canadian sports department store. It was super cheesy. They thought it was really dangerous so we weren't allowed on the ski hills, so we would go to the golf course and make jumps." - Leanne

Grete Eliassen

Grete 100x81"The war wounds that I always see are the scars on my hands from tuning my skis. Wear gloves! I think everyday IUm able to ski is humbling to me, not everyone gets to enjoy the mountains like I get to on a daily basis, I feel very fortunate" - Grete

Kristi Leskinen

Kristi-Leskinen-160x130"That first year at the Freeskiing Open all of my ski heroes were there. JF Cusson, JP Auclair, Jonny Mosely, I saw what they were doing and right then I knew that was it. I gave up wakeboarding and moved to Mammoth the next winter." - Kristi

Priscilla Levac

priscilla_levac_160x130_lp2"During high school some friends of mine got me into it. I tried it a few times and got addicted. The next thing you know I was skipping school to go snowboarding a lot. Back then there weren't parks where I lived so there was just riding on little icy mountains in Quebec."

Sarah Burke

Sarah Burke 100x81"Guys see me ski and then they don't think I am the same person off the hill as I am on the hill. They think I have been sitting in the lodge all day." - Sarah