Powder
Issue: October, 2009
Assignment: Tribute to Shane McConkey, the ski design iconoclast.
DEK: How one man changed a sport.

The Catalyst continued »

Skiing

Issue: October, 2009
Assignment: Feature story about a tiny ski area outside of Los Angeles and the struggle to keep it alive.

HED: L.A. Story

L.A. Story continued »

Powder
Issue: January, 2009
Assignment: First-person recounting of a plane crash at the Jackson Hole airport.
DEK: Turns out, nearly dying can be oddly empowering.

Flight 267 continued »

Snoworld

Issue: 2007
Assignment: Profile of Jon Olsson, star of the new Warren Miller film, Playground.

DEK: Jon Olsson’s eerie consistency in competitions made him the world’s highest-paid freeskier. When that consistency disappeared, Olsson’s career teetered on the brink. Inside freeskiing’s greatest comeback.

Reeducation continued »

ESPN the Magazine

Issue: August, 2006
Assignment: Feature interview with vert skating legend Bob Burnquist about how he approaches a competition run.

DEK: If all goes well, four-time X Games Gold Medalist Bob Burnquist will pack 18 tricks into his skateboard vert run. That’s a lot to think about in 45 seconds.

For Every Action continued »

Skiing
Issue: October 2006
Assignment: Feature profile of Tanner Hall.

DEK: What does a kid who redefined skiing for Generation X Games do for a second act? He grows up.
Hall Pass continued »

EXPN
Issue: Fall 2006
Assignment: Featuring charting CR Johnson’s recovery from a traumatic head injury.

DEK: A 2005 Skiing accident put CR Johnson’s career on ice. Now with his mind on the mend, he’s fighting to return to the top of his sport.

Brain Freeze continued »

Powder
Issue: October 2006
Assignment: Feature profile of Eric Hjorliefson.

DEK: Looking forward with skiing’s latest throwback.

Eric Hjorliefson continued »

Complex
Issue: August/September 2005
Assignment: Feature profile of fallen skateboarding superstar Christian Hosoi.

DEK: Christian Hosoi was the most gifted spawn of the famed Dogtown skate scene, poster boy of the ’80s extreme sports revolution and a resilient pro and businessman who weathered skateboarding’s twists and turns. Now, after battling drug addiction and prison sentences, he’s back on his board and trying to regain hold of his legacy as the best skater ever.

Resurrection On Deck continued »

Talk abut an endless summer. No matter what month of the year, there is always some beach, in some far corner of the world, where the siren call of “surf’s up” beckons.

Riding the Calendar to Catch a Break continued »