Meet Tyson…
I would like to introduce myself as a new member of the WCSN athlete blog community. My name is Tyson Bolduc, and I am a professional Big Mountain skier from Vail, Colorado. I have been skiing for many years on different levels, but only recently attained a level where travel and unique opportunities are presenting themselves. I would love to share these experiences with you as I pursue my goals and explore the freeskiing world.
I grew up as a ski racer where I met some noteworthy success, but I found myself more interested in exploring the mountains above. “I stopped chasing the arbitrary clock” and started to compete in Freeskiing Events around the world. Three years ago, I was a college graduate fresh out of the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business and wondered what to pursue. After rolling the dice more times then I want to remember, today I have skied in fifteen states, and eleven different countries on three continents yet have only begun to explore the splendor of skiing. This sport is a lifestyle where priorities take a step aside as the temporary euphoria and atmosphere surrounding the community can make you forget the date twice in the same day. Through my travels and experiences, I have developed a love and vigor for life as I have been so fortunate to gather some truly unique memories and meet some truly unique people on the way.
The other day I had the unfortunate experience however of losing a great friend to the sport that I love and live. The last few days have been a roller coaster of emotional highs and lows, but it has made me think a lot about the reality of life. Billy Poole not only left me with truly unique memories, but has left me with a circle of friends as well as goals to live on with and to enjoy in his memory. I am not one to mope, but when reality hits you in the face like an irascible convict without medication it makes you think.
As you read my stories and I share my experiences with you, I want you to understand that I do what I do for the joy it brings me and for the community that surrounds my sport. I am a professional athlete for the unique opportunities created by what I do and not for the opulence, lavishness, and callow that the label and sport come with. Skiing is not a sport of fabricated high salaries or built on a foundation for ancillary benefits, but a sport for those who love the canorous yet sylvan lifestyle. Furthermore, Billy died doing something that thirty of my friends and I could have been doing on any given day. What we are doing is truly dangerous, but carries an allure beyond explanation. The wilderness in which we call our office carries a harsh veracity with no remorse but at the same time rewards the soul with unprecedented validity.
Far from resort base lodges and hot cocoa, in order to play at an elevated level we use tools like skins, snowmobiles, snow cats, and helicopters to access our terrain. Cliffs, trees, rocks, and the silent and unpredictable killer avalanches are all eminent factors to ponder while we play in the euphoria of nature. As I embark on adventures I will do my best to explain what I am doing and share the laughter, thrills, and endeavors with you.
Tyson
Check out more from Tyson at Tysonbolduc.com