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Conner Bennett
Age: 16
Location: Bend, OR
Born: GraniteBay, CA
Years skiing: 4
Home Mt: Bachelor
Favorite Place to Ski: Breck
Crew: G9
Favorite Skiing Memory: Doingmy first 7. It was my first couple months I ever skied.
Favorite Trick: KFed on rails and Rodeos on Jumps
Where do you want your skiing to be in two years:
I want to be doing bigger and more prestigious competitions. In addition to that I would want to be doing a lot more filming.
Do you have any other sponsors?
Skjersaas
Do you like filming or competitions better?
Filming
Why?
Its less stressful than competitions. Unfortunately theres not much to film on at Bachelor.
Who is your biggest influence?
Jamal Smith
Powder or Park?
That’s a tough one probably both the same, because there are different things to do.
Music:
Redman, Weezy
If you could meet one person who?
Little Debbie
What are some other hobbies?
Biking, skating, videogames
Favorite Food?
Chocolate
If you could do one trick that you cant do what would it be?
Cork 180
Would you rather have asick video segment or a sick picture in Freeskier
Sick Video segment, because it shows you can follow threw with the entire trick and you can watch it over and over again.
Do you want to be a pro skier eventually?
Yes
If your not skiing what will you be doing?
That’s something myparents ask me. I don’t know just definitely not sitting behind a desk.
Worst Injury?
Got a really bad concussion and that’s it. I really haven’t had a bad injury.
What happened?
I was doing an ally oop 5 in pipe and decked at three.
Last Words?
I only ski cuz its cool.
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Skier: Conner Bennet Photo: Tyler Orton
Name: Jonathon Chandler
Age: 15years of age
Location: Bend,OR
Born: Orange County, CA and moved to Bend when I was 3.
Years Skiing: 12years skiing 4 in the park
Home Mountain: Mt Bachelor
Favorite place to ski:
Its really hard to say, but I will have to go with Mammoth
Crew:
Any of my friends skiing pow on pow days and park on park days
Biggest Skiing Accomplishment:
Winning the Oregon Cup Open Rail Jam, which was the first time I actually got money for winning acompetition.
Favorite Ski Memory:
That’s a hard one but I’m going to go with finding new tree jibs after that gnarly ice storm on a sick pow day.
That sounds really sick. Did you find some good jibs?
yeah, they were all over the place, i ended a finding a broken tree that you could ride up and it was about a 15 foot drop off the end with a good landing
Favorite Tricks?
For rails I would have to say some sort of pretzel variation, and for jumps im going to go with Rodeos.
Where do you want your skiing to be in two years:
Hopefully skiing everyday, winning more competitions, getting out into the back country more, filming more, and overall progressing
Any other Sponsors:
Not Right now, hopefully I will pick some more up soon.
Do you like competitions or filming better?
Probably filming, I don’t always like the pressure of comps, but jam format is always fun since the pressure is not here as much.
Who Influences you themost?
Definitely friends and family
Powder or park
Powder, There is nothing more fun than getting creative with natural features
Music?
Anything that sounds good and isn’t annoying most importantly
If there was one person you could meet who would it be?
Henrik Harlaut, He kills it
What are some other Hobbies?
Biking and scootering nowand then haha
Favorite Food?
Sushi and ice cream isgood
If you could do one trick that you cant do what would it be?
Sausage 9
Would you rather have a sick video segment or a sick picture in freeskier?
Sick video segment, Ihave always been way more impressed with a sick video over a sick picture
If you don’t become a pro skier what would you do?
Something to do with skiing, like a coach
What was your worst injury?
Broke my collar bone intwo places in 6th grade hitting a hip when I first started going inthe park
Any Words of Wisdom?
Don’t poach a 110 ft pbp jump haha
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Skier: Jonathon Chandler Photo: Tyler Orton
HERE IS A SHORT EDIT FROM A COUPLE OF DAYS IN THE PARK WITH CONNER BENNET AND JONATHON CHANDLER:
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