What: Win a trip to the Evolve Chile Signature Series session August 12th-22nd, 2010
at VALLE NEVADO.

Join pro skier Tanner Hall at Evolve Chile this August as he returns to the snow after a two-year injury hiatus. He'll be pushing himself to come back stronger than ever after two severe knee and leg injuries. Ski with Tanner as well as world-class skiers Ian Provo, KC Deane and Kye Petersen. Together, you will help each other push the limits and achieve your goals - no matter what level or discipline. This Signature Session is the session of a lifetime.

Rules: Simply tell us why you deserve to win a free trip to Chile this summer in 200 words or less. We will pick the most entertaining, sincere, funny, core, or whatever it may be entry and invite you to the Evolve Chile Signature Series session August 12th-22nd, 2010. We look forward to announcing the winner on June 8th, 2010.

 
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Session Description: This program is for adults 19+ of varying ability levels who want to up their ski skills across the entire mountain. What better way to reach the next level than with the world's best skiers during a private session at the world's premier ski and snowboard establishment.

Session Dates: August 12-22, 2010   Winner: Free Session
Includes: Ground transportation, mountainside accommodations, breakfast, dinner, lift tickets, sessions with the pros. *does not include airfare to Chile

This prize has no cash value and is non-transferable or exchangeable for any other product or service.
You must be 19 year of age or older and must carry a valid passport at the time of travel.
Flight is not included as part of the prize, neither are lunches or alcohol.
If program fails to run in August 2010 prize will be transferred to August 2011.
Winner must complete a full medical form, purchase insurance and complete waiver form.

By participating in this contest, you hereby authorize TGR to add your email address to the TGR and Evolve Chile newsletter list. (You may opt out of the newsletter list when it is sent to you). Please email dev@tetongravity.com with any contest questions.

For more info on the Evolve Chile Signature Session visit EvolveChile.com.

209 Entries

  • I was told by a good friend that I need to ski Chile before I die and I'm runnig out of time. Please dont let my headstone read "Never skied in Chile"

    peter whitney (19 months ago )

  • Dear TGR,

    Sam Hahn (20 months ago )

  • I ski all over the US, from Colorado, to Utah, to Vermont. I am an avid skier with 2 teenage boys who are also great skiers. I love to challenge myself to become a better skier and take lessons designed to move myself to the next level. My boys now encourage me to ski the trees. I feel I am an ambassador for the sport, I love it and encourage others to get out and enjoy the thrill and pleasure of skiing on a cold beautiful day. I love to travel, last year we went to Costa Rica as a family. We spent time in the rain forest and scuba diving in the Pacific. I tell everyone it is a place they should visit in their lifetime. If I won this trip and enjoyed it as I think I would, I would encourage all the skiers I know (hundreds), to go to Chile to ski!

    judy rubin (20 months ago )

  • ssad

    todd (22 months ago )

  • I should win this trip cause skis and snowboards are my LIFE,literally,I go to CMC in Steamboat,my major? Ski and Snowboard buisness,I grew up doing it,still do it and will do it till the day I DIE. Im sure you guys pry hear the whole"ya i will do it till the day i die" bit,but logging 100+ a season the past 5 years and only being 19? i consider my self a little bit more then a weekend warrior.Getting a chance to go to an amazing place and do the one thing i love? you would have to be as high as an effin kite not to at least try for it! I hope this stands out more then some joe schmo, if it does thats SICK,if not well i guess im not the right one! but come november 27 i will be up on the lifts doing waht i love. heck Im just a kid who likes to ride a piece of wood threw some frozen water,simple as that.....

    cody Clark (23 months ago )

  • Why I should HAVE won this trip, by DasBlunt. I entered with my offer and promise of fluent spanish to pick up chicks, a goPro recorded hitchhiking trip through SA, and mad mentoring skills about living the dream from me, the professor (teach at a College). My skills carrying recording equipment and food would have been a bonus, should have included that tidbit in the original (so would have made a difference)!! HA! Most everyone else WANTS to go, who the fuck does not want to go? I just thought it would be fun to go. The guy who won, NEEDS to go. He needs to feel the fun again, get stoke from the folks living the dream...to help him live the dream again. This was fun, lets do it again; and if you need a porter/gopher, I work for plane tix/food/shelter and a lift ticket in SA..... hell yeah!

    Matt S (23 months ago )

  • Well first off, I live in Ohio and have to either drive or fly to do any good snowboarding. I grew up snowboarding on a pile of trash. Litter-ally (pun intended) an old dump, turned into a ski hill 300 feet high. I live to snowboard though so in recent years I've made trips to Colorado and Utah board! I don't even know if this sweepstakes applies to snowboarders, but fuck it. I love boarding with skiers and I'd especially love to progress in Chile. I've always wanted to go to South America and this would be an incredible way to do it. I also had a season ending collar bone injury in February so I've been itching to get back on the snow since then! It's killing me! Thanks for listening to my b/s. Cheers -Andrew

    Andrew Joseph (23 months ago )

  • I try to do my best at my almost fulltime job while I work through school. I try and ski as much as I can while supporting the ski industry through my local college by organizing events and car-pool rides for hitting the mounds here in Michigan. I wish I had a chance to leave the U.S., but I've never had the money to go with some friends to such a place.

    Ryan Pringnitz (23 months ago )

  • Well, I am broke. It is a long story but I had a stroke in January 2009. I have been skiing hard this past season and getting back what I lost. I have had some jobs starting with a gelato stand and moving up to the winter Olympics. Hopefully I can move on from there to something great, but I have yet to leave the country and celebrate being okay! Going to Evolve Chile with Tanner Hall would be an incredible experience and I would love to partake. Thanks!

    Holly Walker (23 months ago )

  • Number one - I live in Texas. It is going to be a thousand degrees in August. "Well just go water-ski brah'!" Yeah....no. Waterskiing vs. Pow Skiing is like hot garbage vs. nachos at The Moose. Number two - I do not suck. My skills are obvious given my sick bent chettlers and propensity for high speed tomahawks around the cliff zones on Baldy. Three - I have an iron gut and can withstand the gastro dangers of the southern hemisphere. Once I ate 4 McDonalds breakfast burritos on the drive up Little Cottonwood, and I did not die. Four - I took a semester of Spanish in high school, so obviously I can guide the group if we get lost and end up in Argentina. Five – the most important… I need this trip to get my girl back. She is a ripping skier also living in Texas. We fell in love at Snowpine and got trapped at Alta for the 7 days event in January. She scored a random last chair on Wildcat with Sage that day. I need to win this and give...

    Noah Bartsch (23 months ago )

  • Im getting old! ive been snowboarding for the last 5 years and am now 35, would love to go to Chile before a mid life crisis, plus ive been learning Spanish!

    Brad Waters (23 months ago )

  • It doesn't really matter to me if i deserve to go to Chile. But the thing is that in Chile I can find many interesting geological structures, rocks which i could split using my mighty hammer. What is more my geology teacher would be delighted if i bring some rocks to her and I suppose she would give me a lovely kiss <3

    Maciej Sznerch (23 months ago )

  • Firstly, I am sitting in my parents house in my underwear watching "Behind the Music: Christina Aguilera". I have clearly hit rock bottom. I just quit my job in the middle of a recession expecting to be accepted to grad school in the fall (I wasn't). I'm staring a the eTicket I just bought for Santiago with no idea how I am going to survive down there. I was robbed of snow all season at Mt. Hood and when it finally started snowing, I was spending a month in Mexico building a house. I haven't been skiing since I was 13 (i have been exclusively snowboarding since then), but what better way to bring people together than to send a snowboarder down to shred with the best skiers in the world. I will happily put on skis for everyones comic relief if you need some epic crashes for a video section.

    Devlin Croal (23 months ago )

  • I probably don't really deserve it, but it would really piss off my husband. I am surfing in Costa Rica right now while he is at home working and he is pretty upset. Imagine if i got took a ski trip to Chile with a bunch of hot skiers? This trip would absolutely build character... for him. Oh yeah, and I rip too.

    Reann Mommsen (23 months ago )

  • The past year has been life changing to say the least. I moved to Georgia from Colorado and gave up everything I loved to be near my wife's family. My Mother in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it was important to be near her and the family during her recovery from chemotherapy. She has made a full recovery and life is now normal again in Atlanta. I moved to Colorado in 2002 to follow my dream of being able to ski all of the time. I went to school out there and just to wait for class to be over and to drive the 100 miles to get in a few runs before dark. I quickly followed what I had learned from visiting Jackson over the years and continued my back country adventures around summit county. Soon enough I was entered in a few US Free skiing competitions in Colorado and Jackson. Although I never made podium, the experience from the competitions was great. I was able to realize that my true passion was freesking with friends either hiking or with sleds. I was able build on my skills and take advantage...

    Kyle Baumann (23 months ago )

  • Chile's ski season is our summer. Who wouldn't want to ride in the summer?

    Trevor Wallman (23 months ago )

  • skiing since I was 3, check. always searching for powder, check. Listen to reggae, check. Dalbello boots, check. Dakine luggage and other accessories, check. ARGs, check. JJs with Dukes and STS skins, check. GoPro HD, check. powder baskets, check. bibbed pants, check. shovel probe and beacon, check check check. Chilean powder with four slope slayers, ... Please help me complete my list. One more check and I got it! I have skied my whole life, and will continue to do so regardless of the outcome of this contest. The biggest thing I hope to gain out of the Evolve opportunity is to ski with people who will push me to progress even more. I ski lots on my own, and often with people who have less experience. I therefore have got comfortable being comfortable causing a reduced rate of progression, which is frustrating. It is hard when people aren't looking at the mountain the same way I am. I want to be out there with people who understand what is possible, and also try to discover what is possible. I know I would be a good addition to the crew, so pick me because this...

    kalo (23 months ago )

  • I've been skiing in western New York for my whole life. The ski resorts here are great for what they have to work with, but don't compare to anywhere in Vermont let alone anywhere out West. Having been to larger mountains and resorts in the past couple of years has made me a much better all-around skier and made me love the sport so much more. I ski as often as my schoolwork allows (1 or 2 times a week) and had a pretty good ski season this winter, but it’s always a bummer when the season ends. I haven't been skiing in 57 days. And it will be at least another 5 or 6 months until I get to ski again. Winning this contest would cut down that time to 3 months. Valle Nevado looks like an amazing resort and if I win I'll get to have a blast and really push myself on some awesome terrain that we just don't have around here. I've always wanted to go on a Southern Hemisphere trip; winning this would be a dream come true.

    Jack Rinaldo (23 months ago )

  • What is up? I love burritos, skiing, and tanner hall...I should win this trip because I live in CO and haven't been able to ski in forever! Mad schooling and work and this would be the best break from that ever. Hope you pick me, it'd be a medium fantastic idea to do it!

    Dirk Braun (23 months ago )

  • I deserve to win this because I live to ski, and I sit in school waiting for the weekend to come so i can going skiing. I know that I am not the best skier and i know that i still have a lot to work on. My greatest dream is to become a pro skier but if that cant happen, my other dream would to have the chance to ski with the pros. I would do anything to go to this camp.

    taylor (23 months ago )

  • I deserve to win this trip because skiing is my life and I want to become the best skier I possibly can. I'm dedicating my life to skiing and this camp would help me immensely.

    Alicia Neish (23 months ago )

  • Not only do I plan on ripping the slopes while down there, but I figured that meeting a nice, smoking hot, South American skier chic would be a great added benefit to the trip. I consider myself a good skier but spending time hitting the slopes with Tanner Hall will give me that push to drive my skills to the next level on and off the slopes!! Long live Jackson Hole and TGR!!!

    Teedles (23 months ago )

  • I am seriously afraid of heights. What does that mean for my skiing? Well, five feet of air makes my heart race. Ten feet and my palms are sweating through my gloves. Fifteen feet and it's quite likely that I may have to hide some tears behind the goggle lenses and blow a snot rocket to mask the sniffles. Put me on an exposed traverse and I’ll hyperventilate like it’s my job. I want to push through my fears on another continent, in another hemisphere, with a crew of new friends who are all there to improve their skills. I live in Revelstoke, BC, home to some of the world’s best riders. Why do I deserve to win a spot at Evolve Chile? Well, it's because my friends are fast, fearless and fun and I want to throw down with 'em.

    Karilyn Kempton (23 months ago )

  • After 3 hernia repairs and acl surgery, I’m finally skiing like I did when I was 19. I’ve never been to Chile or South America for that matter and since I got laid off this year from a job I hated anyway (door locks salesman) I don’t think I’ll be able to afford to rip for quite some time. I am already begging all my reps and friends for hookups, so I can get on some decent equipment for next season (I’d give my left nut for a pair of the Kuros). I have followed Tanner’s career with enthusiasm from the beginning as he helped transform the best sport on this planet with the greats like Seth Morrison and Shane McConkey. It would be my great honor to ski with Tanner and be part of the greatest extreme sport movie production company in the world…. TGR!!!

    Mark D Kogelmann (23 months ago )

  • I live in England, so the nearest mountains are a good thousand miles away so I don't get to ski snow very often. I'd love to win this contest not only for the incredible skiing opportunity, but I recently heard that Tanner isn't blazing up anymore so it'd be cool to give him the highest of fives because now he'll be a good contender for halfpipe skiing in 2014.

    Tom Coe (23 months ago )

  • I should win this trip just because I love skiing. I'm from Argentina and I went to Valle Nevado 13 years ago and I swore to my self that I would come back some day. And what could be better than returning to that beautiful place when Tanner, Ian and KC (hes injured I think) will be there to coach? Hope you have a great summer (winter for us people in southern hemisphere) and wishing I win this contest so I can be there and witness the opportunity of a lifetime.

    Ignacio Santa Cruz (23 months ago )

  • (23 months ago )

  • basically, if you want to be the best, you should have to push yourself on the toughest terrain, by some of the greatest skiers on this planet. So basically Tanner should come ski with me if he wants to get back into top form again. And plus, i wouldn't mind at all selling my car for plane tickets to Chile. Hell, i probably wouldn't come back to the states afterwards, then TGR can crash on my Chilean couch whenever they feel like.

    Matthias Hockers (23 months ago )

  • I Live in Kansas...

    Ron Woolford (23 months ago )

  • To reach the next level.

    Robert Barney (23 months ago )

  • I have been on a set of boards since 1980. Currently I am a stay at home father of 3, trying to finish a graduate degree in geology in Buffalo, NY. Living in Buffalo there are only hills to shred, not mountains. My current advisor is a volcanologist from Chile and he always speaks of the skiing around his home town. Since, for the past six years I have dedicated my life to staying at home with a 2, 4, 7 year old trying to raise them the proper way some fresh mountain are would help the stress level. Plus, I could teach these boys how the mountains are made ( Orogenies). Thanks for the consideration and keep it up.

    Sean Hays (23 months ago )

  • In early october we had a fresh dump so we built a booter up at the mountain. I overshot the landing on a 5 and broke both of my legs. . After missing a ski season , I feel I am closer to the mountain than ever before. Everyone kept positive through the whole thing which made me stay positive. My ski buddies are now my brothers. I am now cleared to ski and would love to make my comeback with people who have dedicated their life to the sport that I dedicate my life to. I have been watching Tanner and the crew grow and progress since I was young, and is what inspired me to keep at it and go bigger and push myself.I moved from the east the day I graduated high school and have been skiing out west since. I love being on the mountain and would love nothing more than to share in this experience. Love & Blessings to all who dedicate their heart and soul to the mountains, and the endless pursuit of the bottomless deep.

    Cory Bixler (23 months ago )

  • It's a matter of life and death! Not my own, but the people that have to interact with me. I destroyed my tibial plateau back on Valentine's day and I'm going crazy not being able to ski. Normally I ski every month of the year (hike for hours, ski 200 vert, hike for hours back out), it's all I can do to keep the beast within me from getting out. But after the injury put an end to my 29 month streak the primal instinct within me to slay the shit out of some steep pow is ripping me apart. And I fear that my closest friends will pay unless I get to ski true winter conditions soon. I've been held back a bit in my recovery due to some tendonitis but I'm going to be ready to shred come August. It would be a huge honor to ski with your crew and especially in the awesome terrain of Chile. I love big mountain riding and it would be awesome to be able to push my limits with some of the best skiers in the world. Thank you for putting on this contest.

    Jeremiah Johnson (23 months ago )

  • I would love to win this trip, being my birthday and all tomorrow!!! I need to up my skills as my 10 and 6 year old are both getting to be very good, and I want to be able to ski with them as long as possible before they dust me coming down the slopes. I have always wanted to go to Chile, and as a bonus, this would be a phenomenal excuse to get out of going to my wife's cousin's wedding on Aug 14! Buena Onda!

    J Schultz (23 months ago )

  • What up!! I would love to win this trip because i love skiing and Tanner Hall is a fantastic skier! I would love to have a private session with him!

    Paul Wooten (23 months ago )

  • In the past year I have been laid off, moved to take a crappy job, lost my girl friend, and am now looking for a new job because i don't like the one I had to take. I cannot think of a better get away than shredding some pow in Chile. I am from the metro Detroit area (the D is a bigger dump than you hear on the news) and I will be sure to represent TJ Burke and Dexter Rutecki style! Hope you pick me, and if not, cheers to whom ever wins this kick ass trip. keep it going tgr

    brian shenkosky (23 months ago )

  • Well, it's my own fault. Usually I rack up 50+ day's in the midwest then head out for spring leftovers, but this year I had a girlfriend and decided to try and grow up. I've been busting my balls and barely scraping by, this years tally is less than 50 days on snow, one week out west. Crap. I'm stuck in chicago, because I'm a dummy and signed a lease. Normally I'd head out to outer banks of NC and surf the summer away, not this year. When i can sleep i dream of hitching and hiking loveland pass, surfing with friends, not working in chicago. Now, I'm not crazy-and neither am I, but this would tatoo a smile on my mug until my lease ends next march and I can get back to working as hard as i can not to. Thanks- Cousin Andy

    Andy Wiese (23 months ago )

  • I am 18 but I will be 19 for August. I live in Argentina. I think I deserve the trip because the andes are my home mountains, I skied in south america for the last 15 years of my life. Skiing is everything for me. It would be great to show to the Argentinians that we can improve our skiing level to the next level. There have been lots of pioneers in the US, Shane for example. We need some people to start showing what can be possible on skis to our local people. We have the mountains, the amount of skiiers, the energy, why don't we start taking our skiing to the big mountains?

    Tomas Astelarra (23 months ago )

  • I am 15, i hike miles to get to snow to ski on in every month of the year, I watched my fist TGR film last year and have been addicted ever since. I am always trying new things weither its dropping my first ledge. Im one of the best skiiers in my school and i would hike more miles than ever before to take my addiction of skiing to the next level.

    chris romanjenko (23 months ago )

  • Crystal Wright.....that's why I need to go to camp. She's got it. She can stomp it, stick it and crush it whenever she wants. Long story short, I'm destined to date her and she's a touch better than me. I'm no slouch by any means but the direct line to her heart is by charging some turns with the broad. I know you're thinking you want me to win this trip. I also know you're going to get a number a sob stories about why some dude from some small town needs to win because...blah blah blah. I need you to listen, you owe this to me. Yup, you owe me. I've put myself through school working at ski shops. In those ski shops were you're freak'n videos....mocking me. Mocking me by showing me what I was missing. Note: I didn't complain or whine. Instead, went to your openings and have watched all of your films.....in July. Do you know what watching ski videos in July does to the brain? Not....Good....Things. Thus it's now your turn to help me help Crystal Wright from Jackson Hole.

    A Marts (23 months ago )

  • Why should I win this trip? Because all I can think about in the summer is winter. I'm Blonde haired and pasty colored, my friends call me casper, or Neopolitan (Brown forearms, Red shoulders, White body). The summer is brutal to me: I sunburn, its hot, its sweaty and all I end up doing is thinking about snow, watching ski movies and eating popscicles...you know, the cherry/pineapple ones. Not the crappy safeway Astro Pops ones either, they gotta be the humbolt creamery ones....oooh ya, thats the ticket. I've been to Timberline in the summer but it just doesn't satisfy my need for WINTER. Give it to me, white, brisk and cold. I need big mountains and storm cycles. I seek the endless winter and would do ANYTHING for it.

    Brandon Mobley (23 months ago )

  • Just because, & I never win anything. Skiing Chile would be like winning the lotto (I do not play the lotto, so this would be my lotto).

    Gary Johnson (23 months ago )

  • I've wanted... no, I have NEEDED to ski Chile ever since I was a little boy, and heard my dad's copy of Bob Gibson's 1959 "Ski Songs" folk record. The song "What'll We Do" offers a solution to the age-old question we ecstatic fanatic skiers face every spring: "What'll we do when the snow's all gone?" Bob's answer? "Go to Chile and ski Portillo!" So starting in about 1967, the magical idea that you can find winter joy in the middle of the hot summer has been my dream. I would have loved to ski Chile with my dad, but alas, @$%#ing cancer reared up and knocked him off his skis nine years ago. I'd do this trip in honor of the memory of this great skier, ski instructor, and ski patroller. Besides, y'all need someone to show these young punks that old guys can still shred the gnar, no matter what hemisphere! And those young punks surely have a thing or two to teach this old dawg, who wants to keep learning and evolving. So how about it? Help a dreamer live the dream!

    Greg Younger (23 months ago )

  • Moved to Cincinnati from Killington last August. This was the first winter since the Calgary Olympics I spent out of New England and didn't ski all season. I used to work for myself during the week specifically to have the freedom the ski at will. On weekends, I worked the door of the Wobbly Barn so my family could get season's passes. Now that Vermont's economy can't sustain it's worker bee's with kids, I spend all of my time staying at home taking care of my 4 and 6 year old while my wife goes to work. I could use this. I love my wife and kids, but I seriously need to recharge my inner child battery. Unemployed stay @ home dad needs a break from Ohio! Have you ever been to the midwest? The topography has flat-lined. I know there are other cat's who probably have better entries, but I doubt it would be more appreciated by any of them. Thanks for reading.

    Sean C. Delaney (23 months ago )

  • I should win this trip because I LOVE TO SKI! I live in Sandpoint, Idaho & have been for 9 years. I have been a skier for 33 years. I love to ski at Schweitzer. Schweitzer is GREAT, but Chile is BETTER!!! For me, this trip would be a chance of a lifetime & an amazing opportunity to be in the company of such great athletes. Last year, in a 2 month time period: I became single, my Dad passed away unexpectedly, & my dog died. With time, life has become better, but I could use something REALLY GOOD, to be excited about!! Skiing is done in Sandpoint & I would love a chance to ski again in 2010.. Thanks!!!

    Whitney Davison (23 months ago )

  • I would like to win a trip to Chile because I was jip'd when I was 17 and Menace stole my spot. Then proceeded to get kicked out of El Nevado with Mauricio who is from Santiago and finally exported from country....Mauri didn't go back the following year!

    Jake Hawkes (23 months ago )

  • I'm a butcher in Alberta and all my cash is invested in skiing. My customers at the butcher shop know how much I love skiing. A lady the other day asked me what my dream ski day would be, and I said to be able to ski during our summer or ski every month of the year. I'm 6 months out of abdominal surgery and missed a lot of the season, and hoping this trip would make up the time missed. Thanks Eric Hudson

    Eric Hudson (23 months ago )

  • I should win this trip because I am a great snowboard er. Single father. Currently unemployed. I am one of the builder's of the famous hut in the impenetrable Forrest at snowbird I was working at snowbird when the famous ankle breaking on Chad's gap.chad z is a good friend off mine. I have been trying to go pro for a while and it would be a dream come true if the pros could see me ride big mountain or just jib. I hope. To translat for all who go if I win.

    Armando corona (23 months ago )

  • I honestly do not deserve to win this trip. I have never done anything worthy of getting myself such a fantastic prize. I'm just a kid who loves skiing, powder and Backcountry especially, and i am always there to help when someone asks. Going to Chile to ski in the summer to ski is a big goal that i hope to achieve in my lifetime, but due to my income level, and the income level of my family I am going to have to come up with some clever way to do it on the cheap. As I said at the start; I really don't deserve to win something like this, but if I did, you can bet i would be theory appreciative. also I want to wish Tanner the best of luck in his recovery. Thank you, Jordan Aid

    Jordan Aid (23 months ago )

  • Hi my name is Maciek im from poland this year im gonna be 19 years old in december. Im skiing from beggining of my life but till now i wasnt doing anything like freestyle or freeride with skis. My plan for this winter is to get skills in freeride and freestyle. I want to be PRO in future maybe its late for me to try but i beleve im a good skier and i have just from slopes move to backcountry or park to be good at it. I love skiing. Thanks for reading this and sory for my english still learning ;)

    Maciek Kwapinski (23 months ago )

  • Because I am a skiaholic and have never traveled to south America. I hear the snow is much more pure and stronger than in the states. Please help me with my ski addiction as otherwise will be forced to only ski the glacier on mt hood for summer. Thank you

    Mary panza (23 months ago )

  • Tanner Hall has been an influence for me ever since I saw him in my first Poor Boyz movie 13. Last spring I also had major knee surgery and watching tanners blog's kept me motivated through rehab. I wasn't full able to ski this year til the end of the year(april) and it would be great to get back on the snow 100% this winter with one of my favorite skiers and hopefully come back a better skier than before surgery!

    Eric Dorsey (23 months ago )

  • I lived in Jackson Hole in 1997 - biggest winter in 20 somthing years. Only spent 1 season out there, banging nails, skiing and fly fishing. I lived on the Village road in a double wide trailer and loved every minute of it...Skied with some of the TGR crew as well on some of the difficult terrain...Alta 0, No Name, Once Is Enough, etc...I am now living on the east coast, Husband and full time dad to 3 kids under 5 yrs old and love them all dearly, but I havnt carved it up in over 4 years. I NEED THIS MAN!

    Peter Strid (23 months ago )

  • why not me! thats all i can think so..here goes i blew off a paid trip to hawaii with girlfriend this off season because of limited vaca time and the 1in 200 chance to get to chile this aug.sure i live in jackson,but i dont get out much.this would allow me to ski in aug. ski a new place with new peeps,and a new adventure,i can see a kick ass time would be had with the crew you have assembled,and with luck,(i'm a lucky guy), be on the receiving end of a great santa rosa storm.i'm a 100 day skier for the last 14 yrs.so i wont tire too easily.i just wanna ski,so thats why you should pick me ,thanx for the oppurtunity sean

    sean henry (23 months ago )

  • well first off i live in arkansas... yeah not too cool. Its hard living in a state that gets about 3 inches of sleet a year when your completely obSEThEd with skiing. Yet luckily (despite the unlucky circumstance of not being born in a sick ski town) I have managed to make it out west plenty of times and have become a pretty decent skier. I've even made it to Jackson HOle and skied Corbets which was pretty sick nasty. Sadly though, i was denied any scholarships out west, so i will have to wait until i graduate to become a steezed out ski bum. Along with these great reasons for me to get this chance, i know how to have a good time and know some pretty fiiine senoritas in Santiago that i could totally hook the crew up end o the day for someparty time. Plus i'm pretty sure nobody in AR knew what TGR was until i started buying yals movies three years ago and began forcing my friends to watch them (i'm even advertising for you guys, you sticker is on my freakin trashed landcruiser). It'd be great to kick it with Kye and Tanner too,...

    Mitchell Johnson (23 months ago )

  • Because : I‘m a cheap drunk - Take advantage of my inebriation-induced generosity and save on booze! I like to tell jokes - Both clean and dirty for your entertainment I have wilderness EMT and avalanche training - To help keep it real while keeping it safe I’m female - Just playing my affirmative action card here I snowboard - Bright, steezy outerwear can be eye catching and very photogenic I grew up with six brothers - I’m able to tolerate all forms of man-related grossness I am a skilled massage therapist - Free rubdowns! (No happy endings…unless it helps my chances) I 've written for newspapers - High quality documentation of the whole trip! I have flexible ethical boundaries when it comes to journalism - A willingness to omit incriminating sections of aforementioned documentation I’m told I have a Loud voice - Upon my return everyone will hear, repeatedly, how great Evolve Chile is

    C. Roach (23 months ago )

  • For seven hard years I have been working my ass off to become something in skiing, for myself; for no one else. My injuries have really taken me down lets list them; 4 concussions, 3 broken ribs, twice broken tail bone, broken fingers, toes, and an awesome broken pelvis which is still making me limp. I have been working so hard, and I just wish someone would give me a break. Girls get it easy, but I've worked from nothing and almost made it to the top, now i'm just waiting for my second chance.

    Brooklynn Hall (23 months ago )

  • I once asked a friend, "Why Chile?" His response: "A favorable exchange rate, the Andes, and good wine." That's why

    Nick "The Quick" Ochi (23 months ago )

  • I need to go to Chile and ski. Most people will give reasons about why they need to go to Chile, but I'm just telling you I need to go to Chile and ski. Don't ask why; mind your own business.

    Travis Hastings (23 months ago )

  • I should win this trip as I sadly never got to ski Valle Nevado even after spending some time in Chile and Argentina. It was a low snow year and everyone said to pass on in both Valle Nevado and Bariloche cause lack of snow. I had saved lots of pennies for the trip and another one is not coming around soon. There is nothing I would love more than to spray some snow this summer!

    george wilson (23 months ago )

  • This trip would change my life forever!!!... ive been skiin since i was 2 years old. an its been the love of my life since then. here in central idaho, my friends an i get the treat of endless pow days in the winter. but living in idaho its hard to get noticed in the world of skiing. i feel that if i got the chance to ski with some of the biggest influences of my life an the best Chile has to offer, that it would put me in a spot to actually do something with my life. also, i have never left the country so this would give me the chance to finally do so. i will do anything and everything to make sure that you guys are totally stoked you picked me to go on this epic journey! so please, make the biggest an best change in this skiers life. i will forever be at your guy's service if you do.. plus i would love to kick it with Tanner an everybody at TGR an get lifted, an drink some beers, an celebrate life, an be the happiest person in the world!

    Torrey Reeder (23 months ago )

  • I should win because I need to experience the thrill of floating on pow again. Last year after moving back to Vail in the face of a spiraling economy, I tore my knee up on the day after thanksgiving. After surgery, 8 weeks on crutches, and months of rehab, I was ready for the 09/10 season. The season started out poor, and 363 days after my microfracture surgery I fell victim to Colorado's early season snowpack. I hit a buried tree, tumbled and broke my tibia. Now, after two surgeries, 18 weeks on crutches, and countless doctor bills all I have is a $5000 titanium rod in my tibia and hardly any good days from 2 seasons in the mountains. So please TGR, help me get back to the pow.

    George Davison (24 months ago )

  • I don't really deserve it, but it would be one amazing story to tell my 3 year old and one year old sons how I schooled some pros in Chile.

    Caleb Pope (24 months ago )

  • Tanner and I can share stories about coming back from injuries (I broke my tibia and femur earlier this year in fingers line at Squaw Valley) and will be fully back to action by July. Besides, it might be nice to watch an old fart break themselves over the young bucks breaking themselves.

    Patrick Mulligan (24 months ago )

  • This may be the only time in my life that my odd combination of majors (Spanish and Snow Science) will actually somewhat "qualify" me for a position I am interested. Usually when someone asks me what i am going to do with my degrees, they look at me slyly and say -- with heavy doses of sarcasm and incredulity-- "Go skiing in Chile?" I normally just nod and say sheepishly, "Yeah, that's the plan." The plan has not come to fruition yet due to financial constraints and job/school schedules. I would be forever grateful for a chance to ski with someone I have idolized (Tanner -- looked up to him as an MT boy) in a country that I have taken a keen academic interest in over the past four years. I feel that I could positively contribute to both the on snow and cultural aspects of the trip -- while my primary focus would be the skiing, I can't deny the allure of the Chilean cultural experience. And, despite my bland writing, I am fun to be around and a good traveling partner in crime. PS Lets fish down there too!

    Holt Hancock (24 months ago )

  • Because is i love skiing and linvig in Italy could be a dream ski in Chile!!! Thank You . . yuo are the best !! All: Sage, Seth, Ian, . . . where is Micah Black? What he is doing? Thanks a lot!!

    Davide Dellarolle (24 months ago )

  • Fuck! Hello? ShitFuck! So, I have a Fuck! sickness and tin doing research in the TGR Forums, I’ve found out that the only thing that might cure it is seeing a famous Dr. Cliff in Chile. Well, and his special assistant, Senora Pow. Asshole! Motherfucker! I’m really sick guys. I can’t stop cursing! Fuck! Please help me! Two steep weeks should fix me up. Gracias! A few Cervezas would also help. Bastards! This is life or death, so I’ve already been practicing my Spanish. Punta! See? Things might have worked out in the North East, but it’s a long way till fall and Dr Washington in NH is taking the summer off. I need my medicina! COCKSUCKER! and it’s totally time for some experimental treatment!!! Gracias, TGR. I’m counting on you. BASTARDOS!!!

    Matt Lucas (24 months ago )

  • I should win a trip to chile because I love to ski. Its what I live for. I ski all winter and don't do shit from may to december. I don't care about leaving family, friends, or a trip to Hawaii to go. Hawaii is f***in boring anyways. Whats the point of going anywhere if you can't ski!

    Thomas Robert (24 months ago )

  • How many people from the states get to ride in F*&CKIN Augest!! Im 25, have a great job, own house, awsome dog, loving girlfriend and family. I'd leave it all behind if i could just snowboard day in, day out. (except my dog). I live to snowboard, and push myself and others each time out, plus riding chile is on the bucket list. Someone needs to rep the BSG (Ridebsg.com) in South America too. I can probably scrap up enough cash for the plane ticket too. (How many times a week can you sell your blood/sperm?) Anyone know? Ill learn to ski if thats what i takes!! Doesnt look that hard

    Tyler Hudziec (24 months ago )

  • On April 13th of this year I took a fall straight-linin and broke my tib/fib. Three surgeries later and I'm getting back on my feet ready to charge again! Only thing is that by the time I will be physically able to ski, it's gonna be full on summer. I was shooting for Mammoth's closing day (July 4th), but mid-Aug is more of a sure thing. I would pretty much do anything to get down there and more than anything be able to get on skis before next winter.

    Fritz Renner (24 months ago )

  • I should win 'cause I'm in Egypt and just spent an hour waiting for the video of Jeremy Jones riding Sexy Spines to load (yea the internet is that shitty here), and even though it's over 100 degrees, i got chills. Of all the things I miss from the U.S., Snowboarding is what i missing most. More than Ice Coffee, GOOD beer, my boyfriend and my bed- I just wanna some snow beneath my feet. help a girl out, would ya?

    Madeleine Smith (24 months ago )

  • dude, i'd shit my pants so hard if i won my grandkids would be born addicted to imodium. p.s. i love tgr and constantly spread the good word.

    dave (24 months ago )

  • Turned 30 yesterday and my present from mother nature was a bagful of aches and pains. You don't get any younger! The pains and niggles don't magically disappear. I just want to ride as much as I can with the time that I have left. There's no reason why I deserve it more than the next guy - but it would be awesome all the same. I love beer, am chilled out and would love to accompany Tanner and his mates on this trip. Pick me.

    Jay Claringbold (24 months ago )

  • I feel I deserve to win a free trip to Chile this summer to ski with some of the best skiers because I have gave up... -Family -Friends -Steelers Football -Real Beer -A Real Job -Money To ski as much powder as possible and on a ski bums budget a Chili ski trip simply would not fit in. THANKS Ty

    Tyler Falk (24 months ago )

  • Clearly, being with Tanner Hall, the snow will be so much deeper and the mountain that much steeper. We can use the day to shred, and at night, find some nice Chilean ladies to share the bed (though not together like an orgy or something, I’m not really into that). Are the ladies “nice” in Chile? I assume they’re Catholic, and in my experience, that can go either way. How long did you think I was going to keep up the rhyming, I’m a skier more so than a poet, though both are useful when it comes to getting laid, I mean, come’on. But, in all serious now: Skiing, though new in my life (cause I didn’t have rich parents to buy me skis and ski lessons growing up) IS my life. That is why when it is 25 degree CELCIUS, and I’m in the middle of Hamilton, Ontario (Pittsburgh of Canada) I’m on the TGR website signing up for a contest that, if won, will only lead to my embarrassment. Also, because every night when falling asleep I’m visualizing new moves and form for next season. So pretty please, with a cherry on top.

    Charles Mattina (24 months ago )

  • My husband wants to knock me up. Exacerbating his urgency is the fact that I was recently laid-off. Hubby (whose male biological clock is apparently raging in his ear) thinks my current housewife status equates to prime baby making time. WTF?! I hate being a housewife, and I'm not ready to have snotty, grimy, needy kids. I lost a couple seasons to knee injuries myself, and now that I'm fully recovered I can't just move straight to the “joy” (barf) of pregnancy and motherhood! I want to ski more! A lot more. I want to feel comfy dropping 15 footers. I want to learn to spin. I want to keep touring. How can I do all this whilst breastfeeding a screaming little kid? He's laying on the pressure though. Predictably, so are our moms, who can't even remotely understand my independence and hesitation. If I don't go to South America this summer, I just know I'll be this horrible, resentful, bitter mother. Help me get this out of my system. Help me let my husband knock me up. Take me in honor of your own mom, who probably had you before she knew what she was getting into.

    Nichole Nieves (24 months ago )

  • For me, snowboarding is not a competition against others. You're constantly competing against yourself, against your own fear. How fast and big can I go, which new trick could I try, what's the narrowlier terrain I can ride... But, you got to have some people with you pushing yourself to beat your own limits. I think I can do that for Tanner, Kye, Ian and KC. So... why should you select me ? Because i'm gonna bring your athletes to a whole new level and they gonna have killer parts in your next movie ! More honestly, Living in Québec kind of limits you if you want to be a stronger rider. Last winter, I spend the entire season snowboarding in Revelstoke BC. Best moments of my life. But then I realized that I can’t be a ski(snowboard) bum all my life. I gotta go back to school. But, it’s clear in my mind that, every year, i’m gonna find a way to go riding some big mountains. So this trip to Chile would be a great opportunity for me to discover new mountains, meet some cool people from different places and, of course, improve my snowboarder’s...

    Samuel Vien (24 months ago )

  • Recovering from a major injury takes obvious amounts of self motivation and drive. Waking up everyday knowing it is not going to be fun, but without it, there will be no more fun period. In this case fun is skiing, and to compound things, skiing on the world’s highest levels. In my opinion, the kind of drive it takes to recover from injuries like Tanner's shows his love of the sport more clearly than anything else could. I've never had injuries near what he has experienced, but having a knee surgery, a shoulder that dislocates somewhat often, and a disk herniation that I’m slowly winning the struggle with today, I understand how injuries only make you want to ski more. I grew up skiing the steep and deep that is New England. I went to college in the North East Kingdom of Vermont where I got a degree in Ski Resort Management. It was fun and I did lots of skiing at Burke Mountain, better known for the small academy BMA. That was last year and since I moved to Mammoth where I spent this season skiing delicious powder. However, it’s almost June and I want more… Chile : )...

    Nathaniel Bevelaqua (24 months ago )

  • I love to travel and ski! What else!

    Carissa Kasper (24 months ago )

  • Chile + me + POV + tanner + KC + Kye + Provo = nasty edits, big lines, high-fives, and lots of progression in the land of the south. It is an easy pick, I have skied with Kye and chatted with KC about new ideas and angles at Mt. Baker this past winter. Keeping up won't be an issue, and the stoke that will surround Tanner needs to be recorded every breathing second he is on his sticks for this trip! The amount of rehab and dedication T.H. puts into skiing he deserves to be well, in the spotlight, surrounded by good vibes. The Cinqo Amigos will up the anti to bring the sickest edits, POV, and photos to the top of the freestyle skiing world right back to where Tanner left off! Also a large amount of steak, beer, and women will be consumed as well as endless conversations about past, present, and future radness had by all on snowy mountains all over the world!

    John Wells (24 months ago )

  • I DON’T DESERVE A SKI TRIP TO CHILE I AM JUST A DIE HARD SKI BUM/COLLEGE STUDENT. My parents had me skiing before I could talk, I work as a Ski Instructor/Freestyle Coach at Crotched Mt a 875’ vert hill, and drive a 97’ Honda Civic. THAT IS MY LIFE. If you pick me I will offer Tanner a complementary freestyle lesson!! … AND show him how to ride pow like we do here on the East Coast! Strapping sticks on my feet and hitting pow is what I live for. To hit Chile with Tanner&friends would be more then a dream come true! It would more then likely be one of my greatest life experiences.

    Ross Budd (24 months ago )

  • I believe I deserve to win this trip not because I haven't been to Chile or because I can shred big mountain, but because I am begging you to pick me. I want to develop my skills even further, have the pros teaching the skills they have learned, and ways best to portray my own personal style on the mountain.

    Josh Lillrose (24 months ago )

  • I want to win this trip because my passion is for skiing like many others, but I have never been able to get out there and really experience it like others have. I have been stuck at huge destination resorts in CO and do not have the proper gear for backcountry or money to travel. I want to ride in the southern hemisphere pow not only for the experience itself, but so that I can take home something truly unique and life changing. I have always felt that there's an aspiring skier ready to bust out of his shell and really progress in the sport. I feel this adventure will truly help me to be what I know I was meant to be.

    Nyles Strey (24 months ago )

  • I just want to go skiing and have some fun times.

    tyler Smith (24 months ago )

  • Because I wanna fight like Peter Pan! Graduating college, entering the real world, figuring out what you wanna do with you life, what makes you tick, what gets up in the morning, what brings you joy....and all to often I think of skiing. I'm so lucky and blessed to have been given an education, but some days I just feel like Peter Pan, not wanting to grow up. Skiing provides that outlet and gives that childish smile and joy every time. As I grow through my early 20s I continue to evaluate how I just gotta have the connection to the outdoors and real life that skiing helps keep you in tune with. I keep realizing that I need to do what I can to make skiing a part of my life, and I would just love to rip it in Chile, as I have been there before and beheld the beauty of the Andes but never got to leave my mark on the snow!

    Matt Tiedemann (24 months ago )

  • OMG because free stuff would be rad. Who is Ian Provo? I would need a special party for my B-day. I bought KC's skis if that helps (they are sweet!) pimp strong

    Rick Rice (24 months ago )

  • I should win this trip because I want to learn the most amazing trick in all of skiing (and life in general), which is KC's ability to turn the old adage of "above C4, breathe no more" into "above C4, take a day off and then get back on the sled." Best wishes to a speedy recovery!

    Adam Ü (24 months ago )

  • I have never been able to get out into the mountains so I figured 'what the hell', I'll enter into this contest. I was born without the prospect of ever being able to hit real powder, and I have never been able to afford a decent pair of skis. I love skiing. I love everything about it. I love the feeling of that first turn. I love the crisp mountain air.The reason I get up in the morning is so that I have the PROSPECT of moving out to B.C. when I graduate University. I have seen Under The Influence more times than I can count, and it would be a true honour to ride amongst my idols. Skiing is my life. Always has been, and always will be until the day I die. All that, and face shots. Gotta have face shots.

    Chris Comper (24 months ago )

  • I am a skier and I live and breathe the mountains. I play your movies wherever I go skiing. A few years ago I introdued TGR and Under the Influence to thousands at the ski show my town (Ottawa, Ontario). UTI is my favourite ski movie of all time. They have continued the tradition with your films while I live in Revelstoke BC. I can only imagine what it would be like to ski with your crew in the summer when so many skiers are dreaming about powder skiing while I get some ideas on how to improve my skiing and train for my 2010-11 ski season. I push my inner and outer limits every year and your movies are my sound track.

    Greg Lister (24 months ago )

  • There are many reasons why I should win this trip. First, I am the most core 43 year old grade school teacher EVAH! Second, I have summers off and would love to spend time in S.A. Please pick me. I'd have some really awesome pictures to share with my students next fall. David aka Carlo the Ski Nose Popsicle Third, I need to brush up on mi espanol. Fourth, the trip would be an excellent birthday present, thank you in advance. Fifth, I would love to improve my skills. Sixth, last summer I was laid up because I was hit by a car while riding my bike to work at REI, (My part time second job.) Now I am more fit than ever and looking to do something to do with this new level of health and fitness. Seventh, did I mention I am the most core 4th grade teacher EVAH!

    David Rubin (24 months ago )

  • Growing up skiing Stevens Pass, WA I moved out to Colorado to become a poor college kid. I’m the only girl living in a house with three boys and it constantly smells like butt here; it would be real nice to get away. When I go out my roommates tell other guys that I have a penis… for the record I don’t have a penis, they’re just mean. My love life sucks. They also tell me it has something to do with the fact that I live on a diet of top ramen and granola, I’m a dude… really I promise I’m not, or that I’ve already fallen in love with skiing. I’m constantly broke because I scrap together cash in order to go to Jackson Hole or buy new ski gear. I’ve destroyed two pairs of skis this year alone... My mom lives in constant fear that I’m going to drop out of school and become a ski bum, which isn’t far from the truth. Seriously though skiing is my only escape and going to South America has been a dream of mine since I was little… plus I can rip.

    Caressa Binion (24 months ago )

  • I don't want to put your guys to sleep by writing 200 words but I could. I don't want to go into my level of riding either, but I could. Strait up, I will make sure that we have a great time by bringing a positive attitude and committing to killing it on the mountain. Thanks for the chance and hope to see you in Chile!

    Jon McCabe (24 months ago )

  • I should win this trip because I intern for TGR :) and I'm a great skier with mad respect for Tanner. Plus who wouldn't wanna go to Chile, i know I do.

    Jacob Jacques (24 months ago )

  • I think i should win this trip because I need to expand my horizons beyond what I thought was possible. I would love to TRY to keep up with the young talent that I heliskiguide in Alaska and South America. I would love to take you guys into some of the terrain I explored and guided last year in Chile either before or after this session. Life is about learning,,, would be sooo cool to backflip into some of the chutes, faces and spines I frequent every year. With the new rocker and fat skis being introduced yearly the ability to rip faster and higher is open to all ages ! Your instructors are probably used to teaching youngsters and I think they need the challenge of teaching an old dog new tricks. I will never get old and slow only older and faster. This session will allow me to expand my techniques to keep up with the new skis and clientale. Pick me or forever holdyour tongues Signed LEARNING TO FLY

    Jerry Hance (24 months ago )

  • I'm a true mountain person stuck in college at the U of Delaware. The closes mountain I have is 2 hours away, consisting of 31 trails that never really completely open. I never get to fresh pow but I'm too broke to chase the dreams. I graduate in the fall with a bachelors in Biology with a side of student loans. Between those expenses and my busted car I barely get the cash to put trips together. I have big mountain experience all over Colorado and Utah. I have the skill I just need a sponser. I couldn't think of a better graduation gift for 5 years of hard work. Keep shredding.

    Gil Kirk (24 months ago )

  • Why? cuz I'm 26 and this is totally my breakout year, bro. You would have heard about me by now, but instead of selling out I wanted to keep it core, bro--so core. Been living in a snow cave in upper LCC eating nothing but ermines and pinecone seeds, just waiting for the day when I can showcase my radness to the world. Would be sick to ride with Tanner--I can show him a few things, he can show me a few things (probably not cuz I'm so FKNA rad, but I'm also pretty humble so figured I'd throw it out there). It'll be totally progressive for the sport. Bro. Look forward to seeing you bros in Chile, I'll be sure to bring the PBR and JD! But seriously for the love of Jehovah this trip would make my life... pickmepickmepickme!

    Alex Popowych (24 months ago )

  • So I just graduated film school in Bozeman, MT and I have no effin' clue what I'm gonna do. My bud and I worked our arses off on a ski/ board documentary for school credit on college kids who try their best to shred backcountry and balance that with school/ life. My bud has a jobby, a fiance, and is planning a surf vacation to Hawaii whilst I, am lost in an awkward/ terrifying transition period in which I have nothing to look forward to but paying bills and next ski season (hopefully). In this current somatic state of apprehension, I have had strong desires to ride the infamous pow nestled in the gargantuan mountains of South America. I deserve it, right? Plus I need to "find myself" or whatever they call it. What better way to find my true meaning in life than to go skiing? If not, the pow will at least temporarily bury all the anxieties of the real world that I am suddenly fully burdened with. Thanks for the opportunity and by the by... here's a link to my dearest flick: http://vimeo.com/11570137

    Steven Popovich (24 months ago )

  • Tanner, Kye, KC, and Ian... please show me some cat-like secrets before I get too old and break a hip trying in vain to imitate those with innate abilities. I'll keep up on the groomers, moguls, and steeps, though, so let's get out there to the upper reaches of Valle Nevado where the Brazilian kids and even most Chileans can't get to us, and you can help me scout and huck head-high drops and land them without forward rolling if the snow is a deep, fluffy, powder. Show me how to stick it. Help me get my feet to spin more than 270 degrees when my shoulders go 450. That hurts. During SoCal summer, I want to walk up to the crowded departure ticket counters of LAX to check in my snow sticks right next to the foil-coated board bags of the locals asking me, “where are you goin' with those, brah??”. It's ski season someplace. Please remind me where.

    Brandon Fitchett (24 months ago )

  • cause i'm fucking awsome

    Donald Shaeffer (24 months ago )

  • I just moved to CO back in August of 2009 and I can't believe how much awesome skiing I have missed in my past 26 yrs. of skiing in the North East. I was in the military for 6 yrs and only skied a little during my holiday times with the family. I'm really getting excited about going hardcore backcountry next season. My injured ankle and knee while in Iraq has made me really want to enjoy life to the fullest and enjoy this awesome sport. In closing, I would just like to say that while in college I did a ski trip report for my Spanish class on where to go and stay. Thanks

    Craig LaDuke (24 months ago )

  • I'm underage, screw it, i'll enter as my cousin, but i got the shredding potential of any veteran out there. With my NYC apartment, i never get any good powder and i gots to get my fix. Also, im distantly related to Seth Morrison, yeah, you heard that. Im his second cousin's cousin. I got skiing in my blood, ask him about sarah nate ben and josh, he'll know who im talking bout.

    Morry Kolman (24 months ago )

  • The MIGHTY RaccoonFace will be included in this trip because she is crazy hot (which will look good in the pictures) and she fucking ROCKS! This is because The MIGHTY RaccoonFace was predestined to be awesome by Xenu. Also, by including TMRF a poor 6-year-old girl in Arkansas with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her to a traveling freak show. In the case The MIGHTY RaccoonFace is not included leprechauns will be sent to your house to sodomize you in your sleep and Thetans will be unleashed on your underpants to turn them carnivorous and consume your genitals! okbye ps Send me 15 dollars pps PICK ME!

    The MIGHTY RaccoonFace (24 months ago )

  • I like my Chile with a lot of meet and extra cheese. Yup-a chilly joke. Damn it. Thought I was the first to bring a chilly joke. Well, I have no sob story. No broken bones. Not sick. I skied a shit ton this winter-in fact, we are still burning turns. Me and my ski/board buddies charge during winter. I am competitive, but always have fun. I push my buds and my buds push back. Always trying to progress and look at skiing in different ways. Weather its balls deep pow or sunny days- lift access or sled access, I am the one stoked and screaming hell ya. Chile will be good times, charging, super unique excellent experience, great people, progression and a way to make more lifetime ski/board buds. What else can anyone ask for. Plus-I always enter these damn contests and never win. Maybe it’s the stupid jokes. Like the man himself once said: Just go down there already and jump off something for crying out loud. Peace.

    Mac Miltz (24 months ago )

  • I am a mechanical engineering student and unhealthy obsessed Skier, all I think about is skiing! My dream is to own my own ski manufacture some day and make my own skis and I would like to ask Tanner about the ski business and even more than that I would like to shred and have my skiing abilities pushed to the very edge of the limit!!

    Tim Begin (24 months ago )

  • I’m nominating my husband Shaun. I feel that he’s an amazing candidate to win this trip for many reasons. First, he’s a blast to be around. He’ll make the trip more enjoyable with his sense of humor and his generous personality. Anyone who meets him loves to be around him. Second, skiing is his dream. We live in Minnesota and he grew up on Buck Hill. Literally, that was his mom’s daycare…buck hill. Well, let’s just say it’s named well. It’s pretty much just a big hill. But, on that big hill he learned to be a great skier. He’s taken his love, passion for skiing and his patience to teach others how to ski including myself and our nieces and nephews. Third, he loves freelance skiing, and you can’t get much of that in good o’l Minnesota. So he’s taken some skiing trips to fulfill his love for skiing but this trip would be the ultimate trip. I’m nominating my husband Shaun, because he’s incredibly wonderful, he funny and is a good man. His passion for skiing is seen everyday in his life.

    kate johnson (24 months ago )

  • My last memory of Tanner is him chugging a full 40oz at our junior nationals party at Bogus Basin in the 90's (he was probably 14). I am a bit of a relic, but I'd love to make this trip and shred some gnar.

    Mark Warner (24 months ago )

  • Pick me because I love chile. It doesn't love me but I eat it anyways. Sometimes my wife makes vegetarian chile which is gross but I always end up eating twice as much. Sometimes she won't sleep with me for 3 nights afterwards. But don't worry, if you pick me, I won't eat any chile on this trip.

    Jay (24 months ago )

  • Real short and real simple. I used to snowboard. Now I ski. So I used to do work. Now I fuck shit up. Oh and MA sucks for skiing. High Five!

    Derek Spencer (24 months ago )

  • YO....i have been skiing since i was about 2. started at wintergreen, va...moved when i was 8 to squaw. my dad who is a ca native skiied badger pass and the n. shore of tahoe since he was 9..he got me into it. my dad skiied along side guys like scot schmidt in the day. he also started me at squaw's race team when i was 8 so i could progress the sport of free skiing. now i am a 2x junior olympian, entered my first free ski comp at snow bird , the u.s. nationals, last march and was in second place after the first day..to a local kid. i love all aspects of the sport..much in the same way as one of my fav. skiers...dane tudor. i have loved skiing since i can remember...and want to thank some of the legends that have spent time with me ...kent kreitler, jeff mckittrick and last season traning w/ one of the most underrated skiers of all time....aaron mcgovern. i was born to represent and progress the sport....hope to see meet you all in chile. best regards...pierson souza..............peace.

    PIERSON SOUZA (24 months ago )

  • I love powder!!! Here in NW IN I will ski the local dunes just to get 3 or 4 turns in. I've been skiing a long time but have never been to southern hemisphere. Out of bounds and off-piste skiing is the Best. I think trees, wide open bowls, coulours, circues with small cornice entrances. I will even air it out if the landing is soft enough. PICK ME PLEASE!! Oh, the wife loves to ski too.

    william olson (24 months ago )

  • My whole entire life has been skiing. I am writing you you from Valdez, Ak. I used to ride PC and remember when tanner and CR would damage the half pipe. I guess its because I am fun to ski with, and good as a pro. + I want to tag some chicas..... SISISISI MUY Buneo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Jordan Pond (24 months ago )

  • Pick me because I busted my shoulder on new years, and had to shred with a sling from January 1st until March 12th. I still shredded hard for 43 days in that period, but couldn't really giv'er like I would have liked to. That, and I will ski harder, faster, and longer than anyone else. garunteed.

    Jeff Amantea (24 months ago )

  • I am 14 years old and have had a life long dream to ski with all of these guys. I have not gotten any good pow days accept every few months. I ski at Mad River Glen and have never really traveled. I would love to win and it would be a life time experience. i am a good skier who needs some good tips from the pros and then maybe to become one. Thanks to you all, Zack

    Zack Berlan (24 months ago )

  • I am old skier. Soon die. Must ski this summer to make life worthwhile. Pick this old guy and make me very happy. Thank you.

    tim franchi (24 months ago )

  • First, it was a terrible snow year back east....and it's going to be a very long summer. I need some POW. Second and most important, I'm getting married this September. Now this is a blessing and I couldn't be happier, but my time on the hill is going to take a serious hit. One last epic trip / bachelor party for my younger brother and I would be a fitting way to go out. One last bender before my legs give out, my alcohol tolerance diminishes and my devotion shifts from dropping cliffs to making babies.

    RYAN PATRIQUIN (24 months ago )

  • Okay, so I'm probably the oldest female to enter this contest. But this is one of the last things on MY bucket list! I've done the scuba-diving, skydiving, heli-skiing, motorcycling. I've survived cancer, a labrial tear of the hip socket, and a prison riot. ( I was working at the time) But I can still keep up with the "younger " crowd at the local area where I've been skiing for 32 years. I could pose as the group's um- - -urban cougar, but without the leopard clothing. (love the animal, hate the print) Seriously though, you're never too old to learn and challenge yourself, and my philosophy has always been that life is just too short , and it is definitely not a dress rehearsal! Maybe the BEST reason that you should take me along to Chile is, I can order beer in Spanish! Mas cervasas por favor!!!

    Sharon Perry (24 months ago )

  • Here goes... Im 56 years old and still have three kids left in the house, enough said. Aside from that i was a ski bum in Vail back in the 70's and i know what narly, hard core skiing is all about. I have been skiing twice as long as tanner has been alive. I started skiing in the fiftes on wooden planks. I even served President Ford a hot dog in the Vail cafeteria. Can any other contestent say that? I doubt it! I was also one gondi car away from being on the Gondola when it fell off in '76 killing four people. God kept me alive for a reason(a.k.a im supposed to win this contest). I dont drop cliffs anymore but i can keep up just fine, and ill lead the charge in pounding PBR's at night, (if they have them down there). I have led an interesting life and will fit right in with the guys. Get me the hell out of Midland Michigan and let me ski some pow like the good ole days.

    John Fisher (24 months ago )

  • First off here is a link to some of my footage! Make sure to check out all the vids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMtA9ydz-ZA I deserve this because I broke my leg skiing in South America 4 years ago and I want to go back and land my cliff that cost me 9 months of no walking and a year of PT. Also I speak a little spanish and have good hooks down their.

    AP (24 months ago )

  • Earlier this year, I found myself out of gas, stranded on the highway a mile from Fort Collins, Colorado. I was on my way to Jackson Hole for spring break alongside a big crew of friends, but I should’ve turned back then. The first day there, I post-holed on a double-stager, tumbled over some rocks, and walked away with a fist-sized bruise in my hip and my thumb bent the wrong way. Two nights later, after a very loud verbal argument with my girlfriend in front of everyone, she went out on the town and nailed some Jackson bro. Now I find myself with a permanently damaged thumb, never planning to return to Jackson, and no longer speaking with the girl I had planned to go to South America with this summer. Since then, the only escape from that week from Hell comes from skiing powder, which is in short supply for the next 6 months in Colorado. It’ll be a long summer without it, but I would love to go to Evolve Chile to get a refreshing taste of my one true love of skiing pow this August.

    Jon Jay (24 months ago )

  • Hey there! I should win the Trip to south america just because it is included in my two-year-plan I schemed one and a half years ago. Since then I am pretty much living the dream as a professional ski bum, managed to get my working done between the seasons, selling strawberries in springtime and working on christmas markets in late fall, just to have summer and winter free of work to do as much skiing as possible. I made it as far as Japan, New Zealand, Norway and did a Campervan-Stormchaser-Trip of the European Alps. For summer 2010 I planned a trip to south america, but then my skibuddy got injured. But being positive, I always knew something else will turn up! So here I am, a 20-year-old Austrian Skibum, just waiting to be invited to ski South America with Tanner, Kye, KC and Ian. Best Regards Sebastian

    Sebastian Fischer (24 months ago )

  • why not take a beast of the south ... I'm Italian and I go skiing in the Alps always .... it's time to head for new horizons and then what better time to ski the powder with the monsters .... only negative ... nn speak English well ... we will also bring my friend Gigi il Bullo,talented snowboarders

    alessandro chiodini (24 months ago )

  • G'day, I live in Australia and well although the snow isn't great here i do take advantage of what i get and ski as much as possible. Just the thought of skiing real pow is unthought of here but we do get on the odd occasion a blast of heavy snot. I am forced to ski park on most occasions just because of the poor conditions but still enjoy the parks that are built here. I just want a week or two where i can ski without loosing my bases and getting a multitude of core shots along my skis. Rocks are one of a number of obstacles on the hill and along with large crowds and gapers stuffed on minimal terrain doesn't help. Although they do provide some entertainment on the lift. I like to combine my filming with skiing but i am only restricted to park and poor terrain. Something a little more gnarly and different would be nice. I am a keen skier in search of some filth (pow) as well as meeting a new crew of skiers and pros who share the same hunger. I love Australia and we got an amazing 1cm today yes...

    Lewis streete (24 months ago )

  • This trip would mean the world to me because for the past 8 months, I have enviously watched my friends, family, and classmates enjoy the winter season. This 2010 season has been the first season where I barely had time to do anything but try to finish up my last year of college. From skiing 70+ days a season, I was lucky enough to ski 5 wonderful days with some friends. During these 5 days, I truly felt like an old man "trying" to slay it my friends. Watching the TGR clips has made me miss the outdoors, skiing, and everything that comes with it. This trip would be my trip of a lifetime and would greatly be appreciated!

    Bao Nguy (24 months ago )

  • I would contribute on many levels. I can ride, ski, surf and film. I want to bring my riding skills to match the waves I surf. By the way, I'm an early riser and always make enough Hawaiian French toast for everyone, ask Timmy Turner (for real). I've always wanted to go to Chile in Summer, but I'm a California Transplant living in AK. I think this trip could bring me to the next level of being the worlds only big mountain and big wave rider. This would be an amazing life experience and I would treat it as such.

    Joe Griskonis (24 months ago )

  • because skiing rocks and skiing in Chile would be way better than hiking for a couple month old melting snow in the sierras and cascades.

    andrew heath (24 months ago )

  • I feel like I deserve this free trip to ski with some of the best in Chile because I will also be returning from a two year hiatus from skiing. I will be taking my boards for medical school at the end of July which will end my first two years of being stuck inside and not getting to enjoy the beloved sport of skiing. The end of boards will mark my return to the outside world, to the true helping of others in hospitals and to the next two years of my medical education. What better way to reopen my eyes to the light than to go on a journey to Chile and do what I love to do most with a great crew: ski.

    Christopher Wright (24 months ago )

  • I first must say I am a trust recipient. I will hatch the following plan from my "brain trust" . Upon winning and completing participation in the prize trip, I will smuggle out mucho chilean or next door neighbor bolivian "powder" ;) in my shorts and if necessary in balloons I will swallow. I think I can swallow and hold about a gross (144) of medium sized balloons. I prefer the ones clowns use at parties that blow up into the shape of animals. Once we hit the states, I will hit the men's room or better yet a facility in a bar of a dive hotel near the airport at which time I will tender to you guys at TGR the "goods" ;) . I may have to induce the delivery with a vitamin enema. Be sure to bring one for me, and maybe one for yourself ;O . You may then setforth selling the "powder" "goods" and basically get back all the money you spent on my sorry ass while I was on the free trip! I...

    Bart Boffo (24 months ago )

  • First of all: I cannot really claim that I deserve it. But I am pretty sure that you deserve me to join you! :D The more spring is coming to the end the more I realize what does the skiing really means for me. Every year stronger. I am thinking about it in every minute. Argentina has already came on my mind, but I am not stealing and for a bank robbery I miss a reliable people so I cant afford it, if I want to skiing next winter. Nothing motivates me that much as the posibility of skiing. Some crazy guiding force leads me to the mountains. So I will go. To make my vision true. Plus I will do anything you ask for except staying at home. I am from Czech Republic, almost under the Alps.

    Filip Sedlák (24 months ago )

  • About 3 months ago I woke up in a hospital with a tube up my dick. I didn’t remember a thing, and all I cared about was finding a phone and seeing if I could still go to Mt.Baker with my friend. But as the nurse walked in and explained why I was there, I knew my dreams of Mt. Baker were over. I had a blood alcohol content of 0.3. I got home and realized I had gone to a party and drank a lot. This was the FIRST time I had ever even tried alcohol, and I end up screwing myself for my dream trip. I have been skiing 7 years. I grew up skiing on an icy park and I get a powder trip 2-3 times a year. But when I do have powder I don’t touch the park. I try everything from little pillows to cliffs and verticals. I only want to ski; I want to live, Dream and ski. But because I live in Maryland I am held back from my true potential. If you pick me for this I will try so hard and go so big that you wont even know what happened....

    Andy Marca (24 months ago )

  • Why do I want to win this trip soooooooo badly? Well this past winter I moved from Colorado to Washington so that I could ski big mountains and fat POW which was the best choice of my life. But unfortunately on February 24 while touring in the back-country i hit a tree and broke my Talus and had to have surgery. After that it preceded to dump 130 inches in March and I was stoked for all the homies rippin pow, but now I am a fiend for that stoak and winter is way to far away. On top of that skiing in South America has always been one of my biggest dreams, never mind rippin with all those G rasclotts. So basically i hope you choose me cause I just wanna ski Pow with DA HOMIES and enjoy the sick culture of South America. JAH is Rastafari and I am Levi Stewart... please pick me

    Levi Stewart (24 months ago )

  • redemption session, it would be more than pleasant to get some mo' faceshots, after the mild winter in the hole. In addtion, I am pretty fuckin down, and good times would ensue, plus I would never being ridin in summer in the southern hemisphere without your help.

    scott a smith (24 months ago )

  • Hi, at first sorry for my english I'm from Slovakia(central Europe).. why I deserve to get this option? Ohh because of my great love of skiing especialy backcountry riddin and also for my poor english :D what would be better for me than skiing pow in the summer with team that you offer??? :)

    Robert Greso (24 months ago )

  • Each day I look at ski area and senic webcams of far off places, since everywere is far from Ohio. Think corn, beans and broken industry. In the webcams see lines, pick my entrance, imagine looking over the edge, and remember the trepidation that I feel each time I look down. Then, I'm back in Ohio. My excapes this way are often, but lack depth.

    Tim Niederkorn (24 months ago )

  • I would be great to go see all the chileian people that i meet working at Killington Ski Area in Killington Vermont, After only three months we became good friends and keep in contact. Thats it, so i can go to see them and VIsit there country and we all could go to the eventt together. Thats why you should pick me, so i can ski CHILE.......WENA CHILE!

    Wayne Temple (24 months ago )

  • Yesterday was a bad day. I've put in around 140 days this season, my first in UT, and was as stoked as ever to be skiing pow. How I keep the need to ski going is beyond me, but in the past couple weeks it's as if I caught a 2nd wind. Despite large amounts of debt, weeks with little food to eat, or no gas to get myself to the mountain, this year has been a dream. But yesterday, April 30th, I lined up a 20 footer at Snowbird, caught a tip on a rock in the takeoff and landed with my foot tangled in a tree, my tibia and fibula shattered at the boottop, ending an 18 month streak of skiing one day before May and two weeks before my birthday. I love skiing more than anyone I know (honestly!), and to have it taken away from me, even at this point in the season, is one of the most depressing moments of my life. I can't think of a better way to get back in shape then spending time skiing with Tanner and Ian, a couple of my skiing idols.

    Nate Blouin (24 months ago )

  • I deserve to win because it's been a dream of mine to ski in South America and this would make it come true!

    Tom Fedak (24 months ago )

  • Reasons I should win this trip. I love skiing. I don't live at a mountain and I have to work mon-fri. I have never been to Chile. I will not get to ski this august if I don't go. It would be fun to ski with Tanner and crew. I am fun to hang out with. Skiing is the life I would live if I ever just stop working a "normal job" So those are the reasons you should pick me please. Thanks Charlie

    Charles Proctor (25 months ago )

  • About the only thing that gives me a chance in hell at winning this contest is that a majority of my year sucks. So i hope whoever reads this has pity on my soul and finally gives me credit for all the junk i have to do that isn't shredding legit snow on legit mountains. I go to college and am in Army ROTC in NIagara Falls, NY. Yes kids, that is an hour and a half away from a "mountain" (Western NY jargon for a hill). So it would be really swell if i could enjoy some riding this summer with my favorite guy because all year wrong i'm learning to be Rambo and going to classes. I just wanna shred with the man! Thanks!

    David Saxton (25 months ago )

  • I'm dreaming about living the dream...

    Cary Shiflea (25 months ago )

  • because is going to be the last chance in the world to ski with a pro, cuz world ends on 2012, and the grobal warming is leaving us without snow. and i can carry tanner's skies for him and translate everything too cuz i speak spanish fluently. the other thing is that im really sick and the doctor told me that i have to ski with a pro to get better if not i will day. haha thanks guys for making contest like these

    Marco Hermosilla Romero (25 months ago )

  • Because I was born in CHILE, and I can't wait to see my beautiful country!! I can't wait to grab a good Empanada, pastel de choclo, porotos granados.... so much, Te quiero CHILE

    carmen temple (25 months ago )

  • My California season is too damn short

    aaron merrell (25 months ago )

  • Ill be in Chile for most of August meeting up with a bunch of my Chilean friends I meet while working in Tahoe for 2 seasons my friends have been skiing these mountains there entire life. My home boy Enrique has a house on Valle Nevado and is huge into the backcountry around these resorts. It will be great to have that local knowledge. Has a kid from South Florida (or hell has I refer to it) I can hold my own. Im not a big park rat. I rather hike 4 hours for some steeps then hit a jib. I made Kirkwood my home mountain in Tahoe and have all the backcountry gear(beacon, shovel, probe, etc...). Please pick me and I will raise the bar higher.

    David Conell (25 months ago )

  • I am currently trapped in Oklahoma City, OK. I only got to put in about 12 days this year but I spent 120 hours in my truck back and forth to make that happen. Please I NEED a few more days and more importantly I need to get the hell out of Oklahoma!

    Brendon Chill (25 months ago )

  • I've grown up skiing my entire life, basically since the age of 4 I've been skiing and it has been one if not the only real passion in my life, that is until I got married and started a family. Normally I wouldn't do the cliché "sob story" but I am pulling that out. Growing up I averaged over 200 ski days a season, now that I am "all grown up" as they say, I average only 5 to 6 ski days a season. Pretty pathetic right? I at least get out west to ski some real mountains and real powder, in Utah, the greatest snow on, earth, and it really is. When I get together with my ski crew we have always talked about going somewhere in south America to try something new and every year plans fall apart. This year might just be the year I could truly get out and ski south America because of this contest, and honestly it would be a trip of my life time. It’s not all that often a family man can get away and do trips like this but if you gave me the chance I would make it epic!

    Josh shenkle (25 months ago )

  • I am a near 50 year old man who picked up skiing late in life. I have an incredible passion for the sport. Unfortunately I live in the mid-west where there is not much of a season. and traveling out west is too expensive. I drool over my past issues of Ski, Skiing, and Powder magazines and I'm glued to the screen when my weekly ski e-mail arrives. My real reson for wanting to win the trip to Chile is more essential than just my passion for the sport. I am the only man in a hoouse with three women. This august they will all be on thier menstrual cycles at the same time so it is imperitive that I escape the country in order to keep my sanity. Please help me!

    Rich Coleman (25 months ago )

  • First of all, I´ve chosen WY (like Why) because I live in Brazil and I couldn´t find this option above. Isn´t it a great reason for me to be chosen? Anyway, I´ve seen the snow for the first time at the begining of this year with my husband and we´ve learned to ski (and fall in the snow) at this time. It will be surely funny to win a trip to the Evolve Chile and fall down there, don´t you think?

    Letícia Tórgo (25 months ago )

  • The summer it´s not a excuse to run away from ski. But it´s a excuse to go far away for that!

    Luciana Gonzalez (25 months ago )

  • I live in a teeny little town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of CA dubbed, "a nice little drinking town with a fishing problem." There are four people to ski with and nobody to spray to. At least I have no problem finding fresh lines! Big change from my previous Tahoe address. Skiing primarily in the backcountry, it is hard to hone my skills, skiing just a couple lines in a typical day's outing. Our skiing is great, but I drool over friends' photos from "cham", AK, and Chilie. These guys are guides, bro bras, the sponsored ones. After the mortagage, supporting my semi- unemployed husband (sorry babe), and running a seasonal business, I can't seem to make these trips happen. I'm terribly jealous. I tell myself it doesn't matter, the photos, the free gear, the "scene"... But, who am I kidding? I've wanted to be one of the cool kids since my brother caught me in front of the mirror at age 6 in my new red ski pants saying," who is that hot chick ripping it in the red suit?" I would love to celebrate my...

    Kristina Smith (25 months ago )

  • I live in Chile and would be incredible to share my land with all of these guys. Also, I'm coming back from a shoulder injury in 2008 and became a father last season, so this winter would be a great opportunity to go further. All of us at the sessions will be pushing out our limits!!!

    Emilio Jofré (25 months ago )

  • Jackso, WY, winter '09-'10: I was broke and could not grab a job anywhere in the valley. I already had my mountain pass and decided to ride out the winter living off oatmeal and start fresh for the summer. My plan was to go to work at a Chilean resort so I could keep the winter alive. Just as I was licking the stamps on my applications to Portillo, Valle Nevado, and Farellones, I got a call back from a great job in Jackson that will keep me planted through the summer and next winter. I love the job. But, still wonder what Chile would be like. I've been working on my espanol just in case.

    William Wickey (25 months ago )

  • I think I should win this trip to Valle Nevado because a'm Chilean, and two years ago, I went to Colorado and started to watch ski videos like crazy, and then I realized that Tanner and all freeskier were awesome. So I made a wish, someday I should accomplish at least one of those videos tricks I've seen, so what's best to be tought by one of this skiers, and all of them must be good teachers and sharing all his knowledge with people must be awesome, and what best to share with chilean guys after this huge earthquake we've lived! And as you said guys, with all this huge skiers Tanner, Kye, KC and Ian, The Signature Session is the session of a lifetime and so close to my home, in Chile! I can't stay washing dishes at home. Hope to see ya all in August. PS= anyways, if you don't pick me, just come around my place and we'll share a Real Chilean Style Barbacue with some Kunstman (Chilean best beer) and some Pisco Shoots (i think it's better than Jager) lol! Believe me those are huge and funky tasty! Just mail me! Sweet landing from Chile!

    Cristian Garate (25 months ago )

  • Why should I get the trip. I would say for a number of reasons, one being my good wit and charm makes me handy anywhere in the world, you always need the guy on the trip to provide the jokes, ci? Second, i've skied all my life, raced for the last couple years, but big mountain is my passion, and i would huck anything if I had the chance to film or even just ski with the guys from TGR. And lastly, i figured you guys would need one super thug guy, and since you don't have anyone like LJ Strenio or T wall, I could be that guy with the XXL ball jersey to cover up my ass cuz my pants are down to my knees. ( Not actually, i kick it pretty white boy from the suburbs) Basically, i think I need a chance to take my freesking somewhere and this is it. So por favor senor, give me that chance!!! Sincerely, Connor

    Connor Tweed (25 months ago )

  • I am making a comeback this season too. Spring 2009, 3/29/09 to be exact, I was working at Alyeska Resort. They told me it was perfectly safe to snowboard on volcanic ash-which was covering the mtn that day. I believed them and went to work, and was ripping down a run when the ash made my board stop dead. My body kept going, did about 4 cartwheels, and managed to hobble away with a tibial plateau fracture and torn acl. Just started riding again the middle of March 2010. I need more snow!!! I just got back on snow. My employer broke my knee. I NEED REDEMPTION!!!!!!! and chairlifts!

    kat reardon (25 months ago )

  • I deserve to win this trip because I will already be in Chile! I am a second year college student at UC Davis. I will be studying urban planning in Santiago, but chose to study in Chile because of the nearby mountains. I plan to bring my ski gear and ski with anyone I can find, but to ski with tanner hall and the rest would be unforgettable. Since my father bought "Believe" for me I have come to appreciate every aspect of tanner's skiing. I have attempted to complement my skiing with his spinning, dropping and line picking abilities. As a young person, this is my only chance to get to Chile and I would love to ski with come of today's most progressive big mountain skiers. I have a respect for the mountains and am privileged to be going to Chile in the first place. If I do not attend the evolve camp, hopefully I will see you all out there in the mountains. Thanks -Nick

    Nick Quaglia (25 months ago )

  • The awesome powder in Chile deserves to be carved up by a Scots woman who is obsessed with skiing!

    Ali Powell (25 months ago )

  • I broke my knee cap at the start of the season and after a couple of doctor visits it turned into a season ending injury. I skied november in whistler and had a great month. my knee is finally healed and going to chile would be amazing after not being able to move from the couple for months. and meeting and seeing tanner and the boys would be sick!!

    dustin Reinhart (25 months ago )

  • I deserve to win this trip because i love the snow more than anything in the world . Recently i got married and forgot what is was like to enjoy the snow . i used to ride 70 times a season . I have been twice in two years .this sucks so bad my progression had come so far . I had reached almost all my goals i had set. i went riding 2 weeks ago and i was like i never stopped. I am always watching videos studying how to become better . i have always wanted to go to chile and experience the mountains there. what better way than to be with pro skiers. back in the 80s my brother rode for k2 in austria . i always wish i could have skied with him when he was at his prime . still to this day i try to get him to come along. i even bought him a pair of skis and gave them to him . i know this is probably not the best thing you will read but i at least i tried . i am by no means the best rider but...

    Benjamin Thomas Parsons (25 months ago )

  • Simply put, I want to challenge all the boy's teaching abilities. I can ski alright, but need some pushing, some words of wisdom and practice with some of the best out there.

    Ron Simpson (25 months ago )

  • Look- I'm not going to play games with you here. I've never been on ski's in my life. BUT i'm incredibly entertaining. Think of "Charles De Mar" from Better off Dead but with totes more style. I'll also make Chris Dunn's life a living hell.

    John Lilly (25 months ago )

  • Why I shouldn't win by William Hansen I've never won anything, I never won the car, I never win in Vegas, I couldn't even win the decent looking hooker by paying double, I never won any of the ski comps I've ever entered, I never got laid in high school and I for damn sure never got The Girl. I figure I might as well enter this contest and not win it so that I can build up my resume of King of Loserville because I know I can for sure win that. Although I doubt it because I'm sure there is someone else out there more worse off than me. I have my skis and can wash enough toilets to get me a season pass every year and get in atleast 100 days in a season so I guess I'm wrong, I'm already a winner :)

    william hansen (25 months ago )

  • What can i say Skiing has become this great passion in me. The most indescribable feeling threw it. For the past 5 years i have done nothing but chase snow and the great feeling of skiing. Last year i set things aside and made my way to south america to live with a guy i met in Sun Peaks named fernando the four words he would say to me... CHILE IS DE BEST. and thats all i needed to make the decision of going to Chile. My season there was amazing with dumps up to 120 cm in 72 hours i now know Chile is the place to spend your summer. Last Aug i had the chance to meet KC Dean and do some filming on El Colorado and it was awesome. KC really pushed me and helped me get some of the shots that i wanted. This summer i plan on going back to Chile and if i could win this free session with Tanner, KC and Ian it would make my trip 100x more memorable.

    Parker Blackstock (25 months ago )

  • I'm from California, and I love weed. My first year of college was spent in Richmond, VA at a school filled with pearl-sporting sorority snobs and preppy frat-douches named Jeppy III wearing pink shorts and boat shoes. I was miserable, and I stood out like a hippie who showers with regularity. So I used nature's best remedy to alleviate my everyday torture. One day we forgot to open the dorm-room windows, and the Pigs came knocking. Everyone ran out the other door except for me and the room owner; I'm not one to leave a homie behind. Officer Riley came in with an agenda to bust some pot-smoking liberals. I suddenly exclaimed "It's all my pot and I smoked it alone," secretly hoping that I would get kicked out of college that instant (remember the pink shorts). "You don't even know why you do that!" he says. "I do it because in this shithole, it is the highlight of my day." Riley whisked me outside to 'talk.' "When I was your age I used to feel like that. And then..." (I was trained as a Berkeley child to diligently recognize phrases like this)...

    Paris Latham (25 months ago )

  • After endlessly pursuing my one true passion, a career in skiing, I still have yet to be where my hopes and dreams have been pushing me towards. After moving away from Tahoe for a year to give school a chance over skiing, I ended up back in Tahoe, completely unable to put my passion behind me. I moved back to be coached by one of the best coaches around, who was put to rest in a better place soon after my return back to Tahoe. Although devastated, I quickly found a new coach for the 08-09’ season who took my skiing to a new level, teaching me tricks I didn’t think possible. But after my amazing season that left me wanting so much more, I was once again left lost, without a coach. After pursuing skiing this past season alone, I made little progression without a coach pushing me, and was left somewhat unmotivated, and questioned whether I should continue to pursue my passion. I know that I have what it takes to achieve my dream. I just need that extra push from someone who can bring out the best in me, and that push must belong at...

    Ali Agee (25 months ago )

  • I'm a 6 foot tall athlete from NJ simultaneously pursuing ski interests and working on earning my MBA. Yes, I am from New Jersey… Yea, I know what you are thinking: “This kid definitely can’t ski with the pros; there are no mountains in NJ. All they have are guidos. Next applicant.” I get it. I have heard that many times before, but now I would like to prove you wrong. As the old saying goes, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” So, I am currently a freshman in college, and my future summers will be filled with internships and then work after that. This trip will be something to look back on when I am cramped into a 2x4 cubicle. Also, being from NJ I don’t get as much time doing big mountain skiing, but I definitely can shred with the best. I would like to further my skills all across the mountain because it would translate into becoming a better skier x racer, one of my other goals.

    Drew Gilmore (25 months ago )

  • This winter, we had a total season snowfall of 20 inches. Total snowfall! This equated to a base of about a solid packed two inches (our groomers did an exceptional job, considering). Our big powder day this year was less than an inch and a half. You would think, living in Alaska, that we would all have big mountains with epic snowfall, but I live in the part of Alaska that is cold and dark and dry. Lifts are often closed due to cold weather; they shut down at -20F, or warmer, if the wind is blowing. We missed at least 10 days this year due to cold, and our area is only open weekends. The hours of operation are 10-2pm in midwinter because earlier or later it is too dark to see, and first run at 10 is pushing the limits of visibility. I dream of becoming a big mountain freeskier, but don't live in the right place to make that happen. Watching other skiers is such an inspiration, and I dream of getting the chance to ski in the places I watch on film. My skis sit...

    Jenny March (25 months ago )

  • I have skied with Kye's Dad, skied with his mom, but never with Kye.

    sTu (25 months ago )

  • why should this aging ski bum win this trip over all others? what makes my story better than all the rest? well, that's hard to quantify. i DO KNOW than i have sweated and toiled in the hospitality industry for years-primarily in the ski scene- working food service jobs for the free food but having to endure shame at the hands of disatisfied and unreasonable guests; suffering monetary poverty for the right to ski massive dumps at Snowbird and Kirkwood, and going thru the prime years of my ski career having to ski on skinny skis...no fatties and reverse-camber in my ripping 20's. And, I just lost my camera somewhere on High Boy skiing down from Alta's closing day party, with all my pictures of my recent spring skiing photos. so have sympathy for me and send me to chile! or at least some free swag, which i will rock proudly!

    dan hall (25 months ago )

  • Here's the thing. I deserve this trip for the sole reason that I can help get Tanner Hall spread his gnar sauce all over the ski world once again. Now I'm no pro skier but I do have skills, and what tanner tries to do I also will try to do. Chances are the tricks won't turn out too good for me but at least I'll provide some high class entertainment. Hopefully that will be enough motivation for Tanner to shred the gnar and there's a good chance I'll be able to kill it too.

    nick koldenhoven (25 months ago )

  • I am a chick! But seriously, snow sports are almost entirely dominated by men, it's about time women show the world what we can do..not just look cute in snow clothes. I want to continue to push the envelope, raise the platform, etc etc. Then one day when I can't snowboard anymore, the next person in line will have even MORE opportunities. And plus, I hear the Mexican food is delish.

    Angela (25 months ago )

  • I NEED to ski. I currently live in Egypt, for reasons unknown to the skiing part of my brain. I got in a fat 0 days this season, when only two seasons ago I was able to get in over 80. I need mountains and I need snow in my life before I go crazy. Please, please ship me out of this polluted desert city they call Cairo and implant me in some mountainous goodness.

    Alan Sears (25 months ago )

  • Send me to Chili because I will straight up take advantage of ripping with pros more than anyone. I dream of riding well enough to be in a TGR film and the only way that will ever happen is to learn from the best. I am a strength and conditioning expert who trains hard year round so i can shred even harder (my Facebook profile has evidence of my pound for pound strength). I could actually help Tanner regain his strength and power lost from his injury as I've been a personal trainer for over 4 years. I live in Phoenix, AZ yet I still have been on the hill 35 days this season. I have driven about 20,000 miles this year on numerous road trips to CA and CO suffering through many sleepless nights to get my pow fix in. Please help me get out of the AZ heat this summer! No one else will bring the positive energy and balls out intensity to the southern Hemi like the AZ rider!

    George Tracy (25 months ago )

  • I grew up in a skiing family. I skied every weekend at squaw with my mom Geri and stepdad Jerry. However, in 2005 when I was a freshman in high school, 15 years old, my mom was killed in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in Tahoe. This hit me so hard. It devastated me to the point that I literally quit skiing. The joy of skiing was gone for me, in fact skiing just made me feel sick. While I still constantly thought about skiing during the winters of my high school career, it wasn’t until my freshman year of college, the winter of 2008-2009 that I stepped back into my skis. That winter(while I was back in Reno on holiday vacations while attending the University of Oregon) I got myself up to Boreal and Squaw about 5-7 times. I thank Matt Sterbenz for his inspiring email response to this out-of-nowhere fan-mail that I sent to 4frnt. Then McConkey died and it hit me. I finally realized that life is much too short to suffer from the past, and that there is no reason why I should not be doing...

    Nick Knecht (25 months ago )

  • Push the limits? This trip will be a mental rebuilding session for Tanner. I am a metal genius as a music educator and mentor, * plus I speak fluent Spanish, not native , so I draw the girls in with my California charm, then I will wingman for the crew. boom......done.

    Matt (25 months ago )

  • I think everyone deserves a trip. But would be cool to win and have fun in the snow. I haven't seen snow in person because no one I know likes the snow. So sadly no snow but that could change, right?

    stephen hong (25 months ago )

  • Because this trip would be the perfect icing on the cake of the best ski season of my life. My version of a mid-life crisis hit this year. I'm 34 and completely blew off the corporate work wold and committed to skiing as much pow as possible. Tally thus far this year: 30+ Pow Days at Squaw Trip to Retallack - Where I crushed Phil in Ping Pong and crushed early season pow Trip to Island Lake Lodge - Crushed pow and they all suck at ping pong Two weeks in Haines - 5 days of pow, and 10 days of mayhem at the Funny Farm (lots of time spent in the Northern Lights Lounge). 1 Week at PNH in Cordova - 4 days of all time Chugach pow. and...... a Week in Chile? Cheers, PD

    Patrick Dowley (25 months ago )

  • Not just for yours truly, but instead to record the trip to share digitally with my diabled relative and grandson. Sincerely Martin Hansen

    Martin Hansen (25 months ago )

  • I took Tanner summer skiing at Bear tooth pass 10 years ago when he was a Mini Grom. So, I think it would be way cool to be able to have this opportunity to shred with the super ripper now in Chile! Especially~ because I'm a 40 year old mother of two little boys and need a vacation...My husband would be glad to deal!

    Shelly Jones (25 months ago )

  • I told my wife about the sweepstakes and I said "I want to go to Chile". So I deserve to go to Chile to shred with Tanner, because my wife said, "I won't let you go otherwise". PLEASE HELP ME!

    Josh Mattson (25 months ago )

  • I can keep up with Tanner. And, my spanish isn't bad ,either.

    Daniel McSwiggan (25 months ago )

  • I was just in Chile last week building houses for earthquake victims -- good karma says you should bring me back for some shredding! Plus, I bring extra beer and I'll carry your boots!

    Ted Meyer (25 months ago )

  • Your reason: I defended TGR when haters called BS on your carbon offsetting post; I have the oldest genuine snowboard picture on FB I have seen. I am representing TGR and POW on my suburban windows, even though I live on the socal coast; I have all of your vids; I am planning on buying the Solution and the Flagship from JJ's new company in Sep.; I forced a trip to Jackson this year to be near ground central TGR...etc.etc...... MY Reason? I am having a mid life crisis. I have a wife, a 2 year old girl and a 5 year old boy and my wife will NEVER, EVER let me take a boarding trip to Chile unless I win it!!! C'mon guys. I know you feel my pain :-)

    Charlie German (25 months ago )

  • I've got to get better. I thought I had a couple more years of being better than my kids. i don't. This spring in Park City, Ut. I was skiing Venesualla Gap with my 9 year old. I'm half way down gasping for air, wondering how I'm going to survive our vacation...my son, who's only skiied outside the southeast once, skis up to me and says: "Dad it'll workout better for you if you stay in the fall line and make smaller turns."

    Chase Ambler (25 months ago )

  • Because I fell off the chairlift in Mountain Dew & Cigarettes. Chile needs to know all about Gaper steeze... Ooh, and because I eat, breathe, dream and drule thinking about taking photos of guys with the talent levels of Tanner, Provo, KC, and Kye... (( www.coreyrondeau.com <<--- Photos ))

    Corey Rondeau (25 months ago )

  • My life is constructed to best accommodate my passion: Like Tanner, skiing (duh!) is my lifeblood, my outlet and my network, and my season ended all too early with a torn ACL. Damn rocks! I am focused on the future, and August is the soonest I can ski. Interim, I am focused on improving strength and stability to ski at an elite level again, and to lead the kids that I coach at Squaw. I will add to the camp through my on-snow shredding, fundamental understanding, serious approach to training, gratitude for experience, and constant hilarious offerings. I promise to share my sunscreen, keep my corner of the room clean, and always maintain a thoughtful enthusiasm for the next run. That's what --and WHY- I deserve some Andean pow while California sears in summer heat. Plus, I'll gladly compose marketable scribes if my session is all I imagine. Did I mention I'm not your average shredder? Vote Dobbs!

    Jason Dobbs (25 months ago )

  • I too have been on a 2 year pseudo-hiatus from skiing -- grad school. Life sucks without skiing and I'm now more addicted than ever. How times a day do I check Tramdock? Countless. How many times a day do I think about skiing? Countless. Skiing is my passion and my reason for continuing my education. I want to create opportunities for myself and my friends to ski and work in the same vein.

    BJ Sorensen (25 months ago )

  • First, Chile rocks! (Well, that's what I heard) I've never been there, but it's been on my list for a long time. I should win because I finally have the time to take such a trip. Why do I have the time, you ask? It's because the plant where I worked closed, and I lost my job. Now I've got a lot of free time, and this would be a great escape. Also, I need to ski more because I haven't skied much the past few years. My poor skis are hanging in the garage all alone and lonely. It's summer, so it's a bit difficult to make them happy, so send me and my skis to the Southern Hemisphere!

    Dan Ferrell (25 months ago )

  • I feel that i would be a good choice because i could show my girl a place that she has never been to. i feel that i am a good skier but i do more than just ski. i would cherish the moment and be gratefull for all the oppertunities that i was given. i feel that when you are yong you might not apprechiate the things that you have as much as an older person. i would like to have a good memory like this that me and megan could share.

    ryon schewe (25 months ago )

  • I dont have any sob story, Im a college kid stuck in IOWA, no mountains, and have already started the countdown to the 2010/2011 ski/snowboard season. Just ask the other applicants if they can ski or snowboard, cuz they dont do both, and im in that category, in the morning, i can choose whether i want to ride, or ski the backcountry, im 20 now, and have 8 years ski experience, and 9 years of snowboarding experience, so for 85 percent of my life from age 3 ive been either riding skis or a board. Pick me

    Kyley Fentress (25 months ago )

  • I am in college and recently overcame the biggest obstacle of my life. My neurosurgeon told me it was heads or tails whether I’d be temporarily paralyzed with some risk of permanent damage. From that day on I started to live on what felt to be borrowed time. I pondered everything and discovered the illusions I used to call problems in reality amounted to nothing. I felt like I had regained some control over my life: I knew what I wanted for major in school, where I wanted to visit while at the same time it was drifting away... Now it’s been a few months since I had my brain tumor removed and I am fully recovered. Within two weeks from surgery I managed to land an internship and a month from then I was skiing some sun burnt slush in Tahoe. Tanner and I already have a couple things in common as the closest we've been to anything halfway frosty these last few seasons has been shredding a fresh bowl of Wheaties in the morning. Only thing I’m left searching for is some freshies to go along with my goggle tan, I promise I won’t take them for...

    Kevin Ball (25 months ago )

  • I started skiing at the age of 5,in my back yaaad in MA. 10 ft of vert was big then.I worked my way up higher and higher at the local sledding hills until my first lift access skiing at a small local "hill"and was able to teach my friends the basics,wicch was very rewarding!After years of 15 to 20 day seasons I started to get a pass to Killington VT,and progressed to 60 to 70 days.I have only flown in a plane once,and still haven't landed in one yet!It was a choice of going for a week,or every weekend!To be able to go to Chile,and ski with those guys, would be such an honor and privelage.Thanks for the chance,TGR!!!!

    Eric Larose (25 months ago )

  • • I have been skiing for 27 years • I have spent roughly 1050 days of my life skis o Pie Chart of my life: 10% skiing, 35% sleeping, 10% eating, 10% thinking about skiing, 30% at work, 5% other • I have spent 2 weeks of every year for the past 18 years on various mountains all over North America • I dream, at night, about skiing at least 3 times a week • My heros as a kid were Glen Plake and Scott Schmitt • I skied with Glen Plake at my local ski bump, Buckhill, when I was 14 • I have backcountry, ski mountaineering, and avalanche safety experience from hiking/climbing/skiing around the backcountry of Whistler/Blackcomb, Jackson Hole, Revelstoke, Kicking Horse, and Alta/Snowbird • I have never been to South America • I took Spanish in Highschool and enjoy tacos and salsa • I was doing 360’s when 360’s were called Heli’s • My wife has pulled the goalie out of net this Spring, which means my days of spending 2 weeks every year without her could be coming to a sad end • In my entire life, I have never been on vacation in the Summer

    Shaun Johnson (25 months ago )

  • i was born in chile , kidnapped at taken to scotland ! I've never been back !

    Colin O'Hara (25 months ago )

  • Been skiing my whole life, and I am realizing it is one of the only things in life that I truly have a passion for. This trip would be a dream to me, a skier who just wants to push it every day out on the mountain, for fun and personal satisfaction.

    Ryan Sibulkin (25 months ago )

  • Since graduating college in 07 I have been doing everything in my power to stay connected to the ski world. I moved to Utah for a winter at Alfs skiing Alta. Once the school bills started rolling I had to move back east. I worked as a regional rep, freelance ski journalist and full time shop tech. I have continued to write, but repping dried up, and the ski company I worked for went belly up and took with it my 2 weeks paid vaca time. That meant no trip this year for the first time in almost 14 years. I worked hard for my trips in the past and think I should get a pass on this one. Hopefully someone agrees. Skiing with some of the best in the business, experiencing a new culture, and generally appreciating life. Doesn’t get better. Pick me.

    Ian Reynolds (25 months ago )

  • The reasons why I should win the trip to Eveolve Chile Signature Series are threefold.

    Josh Christensen (25 months ago )

  • I would love to win this trip to purely bringing entertainment to the crew as I constantly push the limits and exhibit great falls, tumbles and running into trees; usually straddling them. I grew up on a Telluride high and have had a passion for the sport since before I could form coherent sentences. I used to just be pointed down the hill in my pink snow suit and instructed to wait at the bottom at age 3 instead of getting cocoa. My goal is to one year have an endless winter where I ski all the major mountains on at least 5 continents. I’m a wanna be ski bum that will fake the flu to hit a powder day, get up at 430 am to get there before open and endure 6 hours in traffic every weekend to get home throughout the season. This would be a pure Cinderella moment with dreams coming true to ski with the best, drink the local spirits and muddle my awful Spanish that usually generally includes 2 other languages. This would give me great leverage as a product specialist to tell my stories about gear. I end with…. Pick me pick me!!

    Sarah Glatfelder (25 months ago )

  • I've been skiing since I was 2 years old and every year I get more and more obsessed with it. I spent 2 years living in Vina del Mar Chile and only was able to look and dream about skiing in those mountains. I've been skiing at Alta the last 3 seasons and am ready to go back down south to shred.

    alan tibbitts (25 months ago )

  • A trip to Chile would be the greatest thing that could ever happen to me right now.

    Brandon Hall (25 months ago )

  • I like wine, women, steak, and powder. South America has all of those. And therefore I should go. Come to think of it, I AM going. But hey, free is even better. Good luck everyone.

    Jamie Bond (25 months ago )

  • because im a snow sick

    marco rusconi (25 months ago )

  • I've lived in Vermont my entire life, so I've been a skier since around the age of four. I got really into skiing in high school, going up every weekend, usually both days, and I got really, really good. I never skied park, since all I wanted to do was explore the mountain and find new terrain. I've been to Utah to ski for the past two years, and each time I go, it doesn't snow there, but it snows in Vermont. Every time there is a dump in my home state, I'm NEVER there. My friends tell me I have the worst luck. I literally lie awake DREAMING about powder. Don't get me wrong, I've shredded some light pow before, but I've never had that ideal blower pow behind me, knee deep, floating through the snow feeling. It's honestly what I crave most. I don't have enough money to keep going out west, but winning this could make my lifelong dream come true. Please pick me so that I can have another shot at what I have always dreamed of. Thanks!

    Dan Rome (25 months ago )

  • In 2002 I was injuried in AK BASE jumping, I hit the ground from 143' breaking everything from my chest down putting me in Hospital for 4 months and wheelchair for a year. prior to my accident

    KEN KELL (25 months ago )

  • I should win the trip to Evolve Chile because I've been down there once and I know the people and staff at Portillo, the places to visit and what not to do. Like don't pee on the bridges in Vina del Mar at 3AM unless you want a ride from the cops back to your hotel (hey it was cheaper than a cab ride)! Plus I broke my arm last year in Valle Nevado, snowboarded on it for 3 DAYS but didn't get to ride in Portillo, and the screw in my shoulder won’t set off the metal detectors I PROMISE. I fly the Chilean flag with pride at my work and love Chile as much as the natives do!

    Nate Warfield (25 months ago )

  • After 20 years in the furniture business I bought my own store this year. I've never worked as much as I am working now and I've never made less money than I am making now. We live in a ski town but my ski time has been cut in half. The wife and I cancelled a SA trip last year to save money for this company. We're broke, love to ski and desperately want to head to South America. Pick me and help us take our mind off of how difficult owning a business can be!

    Matt Jones (25 months ago )

  • Recognizing that we cannot all be pro skiers (ok, so there are alternate ways to get paid to ski, but you know what I mean) I have returned to school as a back-up plan when my knees/back giveout I can get a "real job" to be able to pay for my knees/back repair (and ski). I broke my back in 3 places in highschool skipping race training and trying to keep up with the aerial tricks my friends were progressing with. I raced in college, mostly to party and travel to multiple resorts a year on the cheap(er). After my undergrad I spent 3 glorious winters shredding Little and Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah's Wasatch. Unfortunately a terrible little voice inside of me told me to return to school. I applied to about 8 schools in mountainous, resort-laden states and two on tropical islands. Guess where I got in? Grad school in Puerto Rico is not all that bad- the women are gorgeous, the beaches are great and the countryside is beautiful, but there is no snow and I cannot afford to make ski trips. South America is my #1 dream destination, especially for skiing. Help me survive grad school!!

    Dylan Fournier (25 months ago )

  • After 20 years in the furniture business I bought my own store this year. More hours than I've ever

    Matt Jones (25 months ago )

  • I should win this trip because I have to endure constant twitter, facebook, and video punishment from TGR and other skiers while I sit in my cubicle at work and dream of Friday afternoons when I haul ass to Tahoe. This would be my chance to torture my friends!

    Geoffrey Vitt (25 months ago )

  • I have wanted to go to Chile for years. I was going to go last year, but I nocked up my girlfriend. Needless to say I have a kid and have been changing diapers for the last 3 months and my girlfriend now wife says I can go if I win this baby!!

    Tim Fernando (25 months ago )