60 seconds with Basecamp's founder Fergie Miller!!

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Position at Basecamp? Founder
 
What qualifications do you have?

BASI 3, CSIA 2
 
Number of years skiing and snowboarding? 30
 
I Ski or Snowboard because?
  
I've always skiied – its more technical
 
Number of years with Basecamp? 9
 
Favorite Resort?
 
Bamff in Canada, Meribel in France
 
A great day on the mountain is all about?
 
Enjoying every minute of it. A good breakfast followed by first tracks, a coffee, more tracks, a hearty lunch, even more tracks, a little apres, a snooze,
a good dinner, the odd drink… and doing it all over again
 
What equipment do you use?
 
Icelantic Shaman's – designed to ski the
trees in California's backcountry
 
A bad day on the mountain?
 
Don't know
 
On piste /off piste or in the park?
 
Backcountry for me – i like the white fluffy stuff
 
When you¹re not on the mountain, what are you doing?
 
Trying to get back on the mountain
 
Best advice you have ever been given?
 
When your skiing feel the mountain like its a woman
 
Worst Advice?
 
To not get out of bed in the morning
 
What keeps you skiing and snowboarding?
 
Nature, adrenaline, sharing good times. You cant beat the feeling of nailing an  awesome line down a steep with snow blowing up in your face