I STARTED SKIING at age six, when I was living in Madison, Wisconsin. But I didn't get serious until my family moved to Vail Valley, when I was ten. I wanted to be on the U.S. Ski Team but realized pretty soon that wasn't my path; I was an average racer and preferred the moguls. When I was 19, I entered the 1993 U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships in Crested Butte. I had no idea how they judged it. I just skied a line I normally ski and placed second. A week later I was invited to film with Warren Miller, and a few weeks after that to the World Extremes in Alaska. Now my schedule is full-on from New Year's all the way to June.