As a former member of British Columbia’s provincial half-pipe team, and now a globe-trotting splitboarder, coach, and co-founder of Indigenous Women Outdoors, Sandy’s roots in snowboarding run deep. Through organizations like the Indigenous Life Sport Academy and Indigenous Women Outdoors—where she’s the program lead for all things backcountry, mountain biking, and climbing—she now works to reduce the barriers to entry that made her such a late-comer to mountain sports, and to help other underrepresented people get out on the land and thrive. She’s also on a path to becoming Canada’s first Indigenous splitboard guide. A child of two worlds, Sandy now seeks to be a bridge between them.

Jakob Hartman, freeride mountain biker, coach, and trail builder based in Squamish. Born and raised in Slovenia, I moved to canada to pursue the mountain biking dream and found myself in the sea to sky. Living for the summers in my Toyota. Working as a trail builder, competing in freeride MTB events and basically riding on a daily basis.