BLISTER Podcast17 Okt 2022

Blister Speaker Series: Jeremy Jones

One of the greatest big-mountain snowboarders of all time came to Western Colorado University for another installment of our Blister Speaker Series. But Jeremy isn’t simply one of the best to ever ride a board; by founding Protect Our Winters, Jeremy has had a massive impact on the broader snowsports world, and is working to address one of the biggest issues of our time: climate change. So we talked to Jeremy about filming, snowboarding, founding POW, the ‘outdoor state’; and more.

TOPICS & TIMES:

When were you last in the Gunnison Valley? (3:56)
Relevance today of Jeremy’s film, Purple Mountains (6:41)
Size of the ‘Outdoor State’? (8:30)
Starting Protect Our Winters (10:34)
How has the mission of POW stayed the same or evolved? (16:55)
The road not taken (20:39)
Social media attacks (22:35)
How much are you snowboarding these days? (24:50)
Clarify POW’s position on Individual Behavior vs Policy & Voting (28:07)
Will individual behavior ultimately move the needle? (32:59)
Hilaree Nelson (36:58)
Have you talked to a legislator who made you reconsider a position? (40:47)
Pessimism and the Future (42:40)
Scariest moment snowboarding? (46:07)
How does POW decide which objectives to tackle? (49:05)
Are you seeing funding coming in to support climate action? (50:16)
How do you feel about ‘carbon neutrality’? (52:48)
How to convince officials to care about climate action if they are funded by parties against it? (55:26)
How were you thinking about climate while filming Art of Flight? (58:12)
Climate Leadership: federal government vs small communities (1:00:18)
Upcoming elections (1:01:55)
What's your favorite place to snowboard? (1:03:04)
Jeremy’s new book The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains (1:04:06)

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