Skiing with the Stars

Benjamin is Jamaica's one-man Olympic ski team, and Jamaica's first-ever Olympic Alpine ski racer. Fresh back from the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, dig a little deeper and his story gets even stranger. Set apart from his competitors not only for representing a country without any snow but also for having started the sport 30 years later than the rest of the field, aged 32! Benjamin found skiing in 2015 while touring the world as an international DJ.

Matt Annetts is a Snowboard Freeride World Tour Competitor and a star in NDG Cinema productions Don't Crack Under Pressure, Addicted to Life, Pushing the Limits, and Imagine.

"Sick" Rick Armstrong is a professional skier, freeskiing pioneer,  mountaineer, businessman and serial entrepreneur based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He was a pioneering guide in the early years of Alaska Heli-skiing while working as a lead guide for Valdez Heli-skiing and Doug Coombs as chronicled in the 2007 feature film Steep. He was a member of the ultra-elite group of skiers called the Jackson Hole Airforce who transformed skiing in the 1990s and 2000s. He is known for having skied unskied lines such as his first and unrepeated massive drop into the left side of the notorious Corbet's Couloir at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. He was the first person to have both skied and snowboarded the Grand Teton in Teton National Park. He has many first ski descents in China, Alaska, Europe, Antarctica, South America, and South Georgia Island. He was an athlete in the 1998 and 1999 Winter X-Games in Crested Butte.

Sean Baker grew up in Maine, fly fishing on the Kennebec, Penobscot, Rapid Rivers where his dad taught him how to cast and fish for brook trout. He spent his winter seasons ski racing in Maine in alternate seasons, until he made his way to Scotland as white water rafting guide and became a fly fish guide on the rivers Spey and Annan. Sean made his way to Jackson in 2007, and has since competed on behalf of the US fly fishing team in three national championships. When he’s not working as a ski instructor, trainer and examiner for Jackson Hole Mountain Resort you can find him mountain biking throughout the Intermountain-West, salt-water fishing in Belize, Mexico or Bahamas.

A.J.’s true passions are found in the mountains. She is an avid skier, mountain biker, river runner, water-skier, backpacker and trail runner. She has traveled the world as a Freeskiing athlete and won highest accolades as the World Tour Champion in the height of her ski career. She was the first female to telemark ski the Grand Teton and still throws the occasional backflip on skis. She worked as a member of the Avalanche Hazard Reduction team with the Jackson Hole Ski Patrol, has been inducted onto the JH Air Force, and loves spend time with her family, friends, and four-legged companions anywhere/any day/any time outdoors.

Widely recognized for the biggest airs in skiing, Julian Carr has been featured in seven Warren Miller films, developing a reputation not only for big airs, but for all around skiing. Most recently Julian received the 2021 George Mallory Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also received the 'Photo of the Year' award from Powder Magazine, won the prestigious Sickbird Award on the Freeskiing World Tour, X-Games GOLD Medalist, 3rd Place in esteemed Powder Magazine Reader Poll, & he holds two world records in cliff height. Julian serves as an ambassador for Protect Our Winters (POW), & board member of Conservation Lands Foundation. He's the founder of Cirque Series, Dojamats & Blake Broncos. Julian is the active Race Director of the mountain running series he founded, the Cirque Series, which is in its tenth season.

Mike is a self-proclaimed Jackson Hole ski bum on winter number 48. He has 30+ years as a heli ski guide and has many first descents as a ski mountaineer. He spent many years adventuring with Doug Coombs, and takes responsibility for getting him involved in both heli skiing and climbing. Mike hired Doug Coombs for his first heli job with High Mountain Heli, and he was then one of Doug’s first employees in Alaska. They skied together almost daily when Doug first moved Jackson, tuning skis at TVS at night so they could ski every day.

I have grown up in Jackson Hole, Wyo., my entire life and have been riding for 12 years. I started out skiing at the age of 2 and switched over to snowboarding at the age of 6. Growing up in Jackson has allowed me to become an all-around rider when it comes to big mountain, riding parks and pipes and getting the opportunity to experience the great aspects of life. I love to film and work with photographers while riding, but - most importantly - I love to ride with my friends at my home mountain. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort will always be the true backbone of where my riding comes from. Throughout the years I have experienced different cultures by traveling to countries to take photos, film and compete. I want to take snowboarding as far as it will let me go - no matter what's stands in my way - as well as progress the sport. But when it comes down to it ... I love to snowboard.

International expedition skier and guide who has skied impressive feats, including the first female descent of the notorious Otter Body on the Grand Teton, and, in 2014, she went on to be the first woman to ski-guide the Grand Teton. Kim guides for EXUM Mountain Guides, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Alpine Guides, and for Ice Axe Expeditions internationally. She has been an instructor and/or guide for numerous companies and ski camps since 2002, as well as being a 12-year past member of the San Miguel County Search and Rescue Team (and Advisory Board member), with medical, avalanche, and rescue certifications.

Rick led the Jackson Hole High School ski team in points his senior year before heading to Bozeman for college, where he worked as a ski instructor and also took his ski career in the new directions of mountaineering and cinematography: linking his rock-climbing and skiing abilities, he completed several first descents in the Bridger Mountains. In 1992, Rick departed for Alaska, and, with several others, made numerous first descents that Rick filmed. When he returned to Jackson, Rick continued his mountaineering and racing careers, participating in USSA Masters racing and the annual JHSC Town Downhill. As a freelance cinematographer, Rick has worked from Alaska to Antarctica with a range of organizations, including TGR, Warren Miller, and NBC as part of the Olympic Downhill crew. In 2009, he joined the JHSC Board of Directors, on which he served three 3-year terms, and he was a key contributor to the Building Our Base Campaign.

Kai Jones has been on skis since he was 18 months old, honing his abilities on the rugged terrain of Wyoming’s Grand Targhee and Jackson Hole resorts. Growing up in Victor, Idaho, the technical and powder-stacked peaks of the Tetons have long been Kai’s playground—he’s been tackling iconic backcountry lines since elementary school. His environment has surely shaped his style; Kai has a prowess years his senior combined with the non-stop energy of youth, and his no-holds-barred approach to sending is front and center in his riding. At age 9, Kai started competing in junior big mountain contests. When he was 11, he was the under-12 champion of the Worldwide Freeride Tour. That same season, he sent it off the infamous Smart Bastard, a 35-foot cliff just beyond the ropes at JHMR. The next year, his cliff drop made it into his first video part in Teton Gravity Research’s Far Out. Since then, he has continued to set his own line on his skis while stacking footage for TGR, showcasing an ever-evolving and uncanny ability to navigate technical terrain. This past winter, while filming for TGR’s Stoke the Fire, Kai stepped to the mountains of Alaska for the first time. Last summer, he summited and skied down the 13,776-foot Grand Teton. What does the future hold for this rising son of the Tetons? At the rate he’s going, anything he wants.

As a Big Sky, Montana native, Keely Kelleher, found her passion for the outdoors and skiing early. She started ski racing at five years old. Kelleher ski raced for twenty years, eight of which were on the U.S. Ski Team. Kelleher raced competitively on the World Cup speed circuit for four of those years, scoring regularly, and winning the 2010 National Super G title.

Post retirement from the U.S. Ski Team Keely earned her B.A. in Business Management at Westminster College in Utah. Her passion for skiing led her to a two-time win of the Big Mountain Skier X Rahlves Banzai Tour and being a featured athlete in the 2012 Warren Miller film’s Flow State and the 2013 film Ticket to Ride.

In 2011 Kelleher founded the first ski racing camp for girls in North America, Keely’s Ski Camp for Girls, based around the mission to coach, inspire and empower young girls through ski racing and free skiing.

Big Mountain and Slopestyle skiing pioneer, US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame Inductee, TGR Hall of Fame Inductee, JHAF.

Jeff is the voice behind the JHMR Snow Report and has been for been for 8 years. Jeff has spent more than three decades immersed in the Jackson Hole Ski scene and is famous for his huge airs and cliff drops. Jeff has competed in JHMR's Kings and Queens of Corbet's with a photo of his backflip at the inaugural event won first place in the Sports Action category at the NPPA photo journalist clip competition. Jeff is a Stio athlete and skis for Atomic.

Born and raised in Aspen, skiing has been a lifelong passion.

I clicked into my first pair of skis at four, and my love for adventure and air only grew as I began to explore everything from natural jumps to the intense terrain parks that emerged in my middle school years. Moving to Ouray, Colorado at nine brought new terrain in Telluride, and by the time I was back in Aspen for high school, I was spending most of my free time (and maybe a few school days) on the snow.

My next few years were spent studying Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, while also competing in half-pipe and slopestyle events back on the mountain, honing my skills and embracing the thrill of competitive skiing. With my degree in hand, I returned to Aspen—but my quest for new challenges led me to Jackson Hole in 2013.

Now, my winters are spent pushing the limits at Jackson Hole, sending cliffs, straightlining intense chutes, and exploring couloirs both in and beyond the resort boundaries. I’ve been fortunate to ski across the globe—from the powdery slopes of Japan and Canada to the stunning terrains of South America, New Zealand, and Europe. When I’m not at the resort, I’m off on ski mountaineering adventures, climbing to hidden peaks with ice axes and crampons to find the most elusive lines.

Melissa Malm became the first professional female ski patroller on the Jackson Hole Ski Patrol in 1978. Back when untracked powder lasted for days after a storm, lift lines were nonexistent and the side country was a wild adventure and closed. For nearly five decades Rendezvous Mountain and the mountains of Wyoming have been her office and playground.

Max was born and raised in Jackson where his love for the outdoors and skiing started. Growing up as a skier racer, Max was fortunate to travel much of the country for races. The experiences and friendships made through his time in the sport paved the path for a successful future as a professional skier and small business owner. He believes that some of life's greatest lessons can be learned in the mountains and hopes to inspire others to explore the outdoors.

The youngest woman to ski the Grand Teton, Morgan has completed ski mountaineering descents, alpine climbs, and obscure human powered adventures in places such as the Tetons, Alps, Andes, Cascades, Wind River Range, Japan, and Iceland. After years of competing as a professional freeskier and working through a degree in geology from Middlebury College, Morgan returned to the Tetons full time to guide backcountry skiing and alpine climbing year-round.

Few people have seen and heard what Wade McKoy has witnessed while skiing during the past 50 years in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. As a professional ski-action photographer and co-publisher of the Jackson Hole Skier magazine, he was among the first to document the budding, big mountain ski culture in the Tetons during the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. Becoming a dedicated skier himself, McKoy continued this work into the 21st century and has compiled a 50-year visual and written record of ski life in Jackson Hole and the Tetons during this transformative time. Coming this spring, his new book, The Arc of Skiing Jackson Hole, 45 years behind the lens, chronicles these storied images.

Madison is a professional big mountain skier and four-season outdoor athlete based in Jackson Hole, WY.

Featured in Warren Miller Entertainment's 72nd and 73rd Annual Film, "Winter Starts Now," "Daymaker."

​Featured in Legs of Steel Production "Beauty Full Send"

​Featured in print publications: Powder Magazine, Cover of Backcountry Magazine, and Mountain Magazine as well as features in Freeskier Magazine, and Outside Magazine. 

Madison strives to tell genuine stories, connect with others, and inspire people to showcase their authentic selfs. 

Professional skier based out of Jackson. His specialties are humongous airs and massive backflips. Competed in the Subaru Freeride Series and the Freeride World Qualifiers.

Bobby Thomson is an entrepreneur and skier in Jackson Hole.  Bobby is responsible for creating some of the most beautiful and inspiring ski content on the internet and you’ll often find his videos on JHMR’s website and social media accounts. He is a sought-after MMS Instructor who is the go-to-choice for celebrities who want to have the best experience on the mountain. Bobby is Jackson-famous for skiing more than 100,000 vertical feet in one day during both the 20/21 and 21/22 ski seasons. He holds the current Jackson Hole Mountain Resort vertical record of 125,000 feet skied in a day. Bobby is sponsored by Bomber Skis.