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Bryce Barnes

Bryce Barnes

Splitboard

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Hometown: Newry, Maine

Current Location: Juneau, Alaska

Favorite Zone: The Sandbox, Gulf of Slides, White Mountains

Proudest Achievement: Getting together a group of 10 black people out ski touring and splitboarding for the first time!

Favorite Advocacy Org: Inclusive Ski Touring, Outdoor Afro

Biography

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I started snowboarding around the age of 5 on a plastic Wal-Mart special, which turned into a real snowboard with edges when my family moved into a town with a 400’ ski hill. I was able to get bussed from elementary school right to the “mountain” and take lessons! I cried about how much the lessons hurt but couldn’t stop snowboarding. As soon as I got out of high school I moved out to be closer to the bigger ski resorts in Maine and worked as a Snowmaker to get a free season pass. Glade riding turned into finding and cutting my own glades on the resort, which turned into a splitboard and going deeper and farther from resorts, working my way around the stashes of Western Maine and some of the more well known lines and zones in the White Mountains. In the last couple years I joined a non-profit group called Inclusive Ski Touring, aimed at getting people of marginalized communities out ski touring and splitboarding! In months with less snow you can find me trying to balance on a mountain bike, rock climbing, and no matter what season I’ll be out walking my cat Mercury.

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ATHLETE MENTORSHIP INITATIVE

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The SCARPA Athlete Mentorship Initiative presented by Mountain Hardwear has been created to connect and engage the SCARPA and Mountain Hardwear Athlete teams with accomplished athletes from historically marginalized communities aspiring to take their sport or career to the next level. The mission of this program is to connect mentors with mentees focused on the sports we serve to provide participants with opportunities for personal, athletic and career development with the goal of helping to create a more inclusive and diverse community of athletes.

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Q & A

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  1. How did you get involved with your respective sport?: I got started snowboarding mostly because of the long Maine winters, & after exploring all there was in bounds at my local resort I branched out quick and went for deeper and bigger backcountry objectives.
  2. Who were your influences early in life?: My earliest influence was actually Selema Masekela, watching the Xgames growing up he was the only one who looked like me. So as I wasGeeking out watching the snowboarding I was stoked watching the man Selema bridge gaps and teach little parts about the sport.
  3. What draws you to the outdoors?: Being brought up in the outdoors definitely has a big part in my love for it. Also the way the outdoors is alive and ever changing so cool and awesome and always to be respected and protected.
  4. What’s your dream trip or expedition?: My dream expedition would be to get some first ascents/descents in Antartica or at least some sort of multi day excursion into the void that is, Antartica!
  5. What makes a good skiing/climbing/running/hiking partner?: Someone who can push like hell but knows when and how to speak up if they see something or feel something the other doesn’t, & to know limits that just shouldn’t be pushed!
  6. How are you going to pass on what you learn in the mentorship program to others?: What I learn through the mentorship program I’m going to use to make life long skiers/riders. Not only that but to start a chain reaction of positivity and people supporting people in an inclusive community.