I found this one ski shop and I was looking at backcountry skis and this guy was looking to me and he's like, well, he worked there and he's like, what you're doing?

And I was like, well, I need to get a pair of backcountry skis for this course.

And he's like, you don't seem that excited.

And I was like, well, I recently fell in love with snowboarding, so I'm having a hard time

thinking about skiing.

And he was like, well, have you ever heard of splitboarding?

And I was like, what is that?

And he showed me a splitboard.

And I left that day with a splitboard instead of skis.

And that changed the trajectory of my whole life.

Episode 172, Whitney Gilliam on splitboarding in the backcountry.

Hello, friends. Welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. Today is going to be a great show. I have Whitney Gilliam with us.

And we're going to talk about splitboarding. And for those of you who don't know,

splitboarding is when you split a snowboard into two pieces so that you can skin up a mountain and then snowboard back down.

We're going to talk a lot about splitboarding, life living in the Colorado

Rockies community, and some very special places, namely Crested Butte in the surrounding areas.

Oh, and I don't want to forget to announce that the full video version of this podcast is available

for this episode on YouTube. Just go to the Adventure Sports podcast channel there.

Whitney Gilliam is a multifaceted splitboarder. She's an avalanche educator and a pastor from

Crestabute, Colorado. She's originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, and she has about 10 years of

splitboarding experience, which actually

sounds a little bit like for someone with her caliber and her skill set, but she must be a quick

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