S1 E1 Connor Ryan - Good Relations
    Kris

    Hey everyone. Thank you for joining me on theBIPoC Outside Podcast. I'm Kris Cromwell. And today we're sitting down with Connor Ryan. He's a professional free skier, Natives Outdoors athlete, Protect our Winters ambassador and a proud Hunkpapa Lakota citizen. So let's get into it. Shall we? Connor. Thank you so much for joining us today. It's lovely to have you

    Connor

    Hau Mitakuye Pi. It's good to be on the show.

    Kris

    Right on, so to get us started, let's talk a little bit about yourself. You got introduced to skiing, pretty young.

    Connor

    Yeah, I first got on the hill at about like six or so, and lucky to be from, from Boulder, Colorado, where there's access just just 30 minutes away from where I lived and yeah, it allowed me to start pretty early.

    Kris

    Awesome. Awesome. So tell me so far, what's been your best day on the snow.

    Connor

    I mean, that's hard to say I've had so many, so many days on snow. I would say my favorite or the favorite that comes to mind at the moment would be last year we had a day, just an extraordinarily deep. day at Winter Park where I think we have like about 20 or 30 inches come in overnight. And there was just kind of the perfect alignment of people that I was with that day.

    I got to share my experience with Ellen Bradley. Who's one of my best friends and back country partners. And it was her first time really getting to be at Winter Park. And I think that's one of the most magical things is when you can share a place that you love with someone on.

    its best possible day.

    Kris

    Nice. Nice. So that's what your ski in these days is Winter Park?

    Connor

    Yeah, that's my home mountain for the most part. I mean, I'm, I'm lucky to get to travel quite a bit as someone who, you know, has the privilege to ski for a living. But yeah, if I could pick any, any one place that feels the most like home when I'm on two sticks it's Winter Park.

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