About: Tyler is 18 years old and has been a Crystal local all his life. Starting at the young age of 2 his parents taught him how to ski and soon put him into the CMAC program for the next 8 years until eventually wondering off into the backcountry. He entered in his first Big mountain competition at 13 years of age in the mens division. Tyler finds competing very exciting and challenging but his true passion is coming home to Crystal Mt. and filming in the backcountry and over all just skiing with fellow friends. Tyler has been shooting with K2 skis and starting his production company BHP with friend John Rutherfurd and hopes to have full movie out next year. He would like to thank his sponsors and esspecially his parents for never stopping to push him to be the best he is and for all the support no matter what.
Sponsors: Crystal Mountain, K2, Spacecraft, Smith Optics, Dakine, Full Tilt
Accomplishments:
2008: 1st Red Bull Cold Rush Viewers Choice, 9th Red Bull Cold Rush, 14th Taos Freeskiing Competition
2007: 1st Junior US Extreme Skiing Championships (Crested Butte, CO), 6th Junior Canadian Open Freeskiing Championships (Red Mountain), 2nd Junior Smith Optics Freeskier Comp (Fernie, BC), 4th Silver King Freeride (Crystal Mountain, WA)
2006: 3rd, Junior Silver King Freeride (Crystal Mountain, WA)
2004: 2nd, Junior Silver King Freeride (Crystal Mountain, WA)
2003: 1st, Junior Silver King Freeride (Crystal Mountain, WA)

INGRID BACKSTROM
About: Ingrid Backstrom grew up in Seattle where she spent her winters skiing down Crystal Mountain, WA, and her summers hiking back up them on backpacking trips with her parents and two younger brothers. After graduating from Whitman College, the call of the mountains drew her to Squaw Valley, California, to put in what she thought would be a yearlong stint as a ski bum. It only took a few freeskiing contests, however, for Ingrid to realize that she had found her niche, and that she’d be calling the mountains home for a long, long time. Ingrid’s star is on a phenomenal rise, as her string of first-place titles shows. She recently won awards for “Best Female Performance” and “Breakthrough Performance” (for her segment in Matchstick Productions’ film Yearbook) at the 2005 Powder Magazine Video Awards, Best Female Performance at the 2006 Powder Awards, and People’s Choice Award at the 2007 Powder Awards. When she’s not skiing, Ingrid still stays outside as much a possible, running and biking to relax and keep fit. Ingrid is grateful for the opportunities that her sport brings her, especially getting to travel and ski with “amazing people around the world.”

LAURA OGDEN
About: Although Laura’s mom swears it is the risk gene, Laura knows it’s her love for the mountains that created her passion for skiing. Or, it could have been the freedom found in a drivers license and Crystal Mountain on the weekends in high school. Laura grew up primarily playing soccer, which she played at Colorado College while pursuing a biology degree in the Rocky Mountains. However, she also pursued another passion at Arapahoe Basin, Jackson Hole, Snowbird, Alta, Whistler/Blackcomb, and eventually back at Crystal Mountain. She followed her dream of skiing professionally by competing in all the freeskiing competitions, winning her first one at Crested Butte in 2004. She went on to win the overall North American Tour in 2005, and the World Tour in 2006 (with conviction – she won all the events in the tour!). This year Laura is happy as a clam at Crystal, once again following Keith and Wayne around the hill, the skiers she looked up to in the beginning. She is still competing and working on a killer film segment with Rage Films. She would like to thank her parents for letting her put off a corporate job as long as possible.
Sponsors: Crystal, Volkl, Tecnica, Marker, Scott USA & Arc Teryx
Accomplishments:
2007: 1st Women’s US Extreme Skiing Championships (Crested Butte, CO), 1st Women’s Silver King Freeride (Crystal Mountain, WA), 1st U.S. Freeskiing Finals (Kirkwood, CA)
2006: 1st North American Freeskiing Championships (Snowbird, UT), 1st Verbier Ride (Verbier, CH), 1st US Freeskiing & World Finals (Kirkwood)
2005: 1st Molson Canadian Freeskiing Championship (Red Mountain, BC), 2nd New Mexico Extreme Skiing Championship (Taos, NM), 2nd SAAB US Extreme Skiing Championships (Crested Butte, CO)

WAYNE GREVEY
About: Wayne has had pictures published in every major ski magazine. He has also been fortunate enough to find his way onto the cover of Powder Magazine. Wayne has appeared in the Warren Miller movie, “Fifty” and two Casca Production movies, “Support the Cause” and “Second Season.” Upcoming projects include another movie with Casca and more pics in Powder.
Favortie Run at Crystal: Niagara’s
Sponsors: Crystal Mountian, K2, Smith Optics, Clifbar, Sturtevant’s, Fox River, Salomon Bindings, Swany, Thule, OR, Technica, Casca Media and Camelbak

KEITH ROLLINS
About: Sometimes the most random day can change a life. For Keith that day came when he was 17 and some friends in his high school shop class invited him to go night skiing at Crystal Mountain. A poor kid living in Tacoma, Keith was more inclined to go fishing and almost passed on the opportunity. But his friends talked him into it and his life was never the same. Keith is now the Puyallup Sturtevants store manager and in his 6th year with the company. His free time is spent skiing and biking, often in front of a camera. Keith has had over 200 photos published in ski and bike magazines, and has even found himself in a couple of movies. Whether he’s skiing the Backcountry at Crystal Mountain with his 9 year old son Blake, or heli-skiing a peak in Alaska, Keith still gets that same feeling he had 21 years ago when he first grabbed a hold of that rope tow at Crystal.
Sponsors: Crystal Mountain, K2, Sturtevants, Marker, Lange, Helly Hansen, Smith Optics, Dakine, Giant & Clif Bar