athletes

Eric Pollard

Eric Pollard

Freeskier, filmmaker, and artist from Mount Hood, Oregon. Over two decades with Line, the first fully symmetrical ski, and co-founder of Season Eqpt, he hand-draws his own graphics and has always skied his own way, in the backcountry and behind the camera.

Owen Leeper

Owen Leeper

Big-mountain skier out of Jackson Hole, known for high-speed lines and outsized cliff drops. He films his own segments across the Tetons and beyond, always chasing the biggest terrain he can find.

Cooper Branham

Cooper Branham

Backcountry snowboarder from the Pacific Northwest, now based in Jackson Hole. He films every winter with Teton Gravity Research and rode in Warren Miller's 70th film, bringing a skater's eye to big-mountain terrain.

Natalie Allport

Natalie Allport

Venezuelan-Canadian snowboarder from Ottawa who returned to the sport after eight years away and qualified for the Freeride World Tour in two seasons. Off the snow she runs a marketing agency and hosts a podcast, championing women in sport and the human side of the athlete's journey.

Connery Lundin

Connery Lundin

Big-mountain skier who has called Palisades Tahoe home since his first turns there at age two. The 2015 Freeskiing World Tour champion, he is known for stylish, fearless lines and film segments with the sport's top crews, and he gives back by mentoring young skiers and coaching big-mountain camps on Mount Hood each summer.

Maddy Schaffrick

Maddy Schaffrick

Halfpipe snowboarder from Steamboat Springs and a onetime teenage prodigy. She stepped away from the sport for a decade, trained as a plumber, then came back to earn her first Olympic team, a comeback ten years in the making.

Mathias Gruber

Mathias Gruber

Ski mountaineer, expedition skier, and writer based in Carbondale, Colorado. His missions have run from Alaska to New Zealand in search of untouched lines, and his words have appeared in Freeskier, Climbing, and The Alpine Journal.

Jett Seymour

Jett Seymour

Alpine ski racer from Steamboat Springs, raised under the lights of Howelsen Hill. He races World Cup slalom for the U.S. Ski Team, with a career-best seventh place at Chamonix.

Tested by the hands that know.

Our athletes don't just wear Swany. They put it through the hardest days on the mountain and tell us exactly what holds up and what doesn't. Every season, their notes on fit, grip, and warmth find their way back into the workshop, into the leather we choose, the insulation we map, and the small details you feel the moment you pull a glove on. When the people who are out there the most help build the gear, everyone's hands end up better for it.