Mia Jones, 2026 Freeride World Tour Women's Snowboard Champion, FIS Freeride World Champion, & FWT Rookie of the Year
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Understatement: Mia Jones just had herself a season. As a rookie on the 2026 Freeride World Tour, she got to travel the world, ride in AK for the first time, win the FIS Freeride World Championship, become the overall FWT women’s snowboard champion, and be named FWT rookie of the year. Today, she and Jonathan talk about how she managed to pull all of that off while pursuing a degree at Dartmouth, and figuring it all out along the way.
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TOPICS & TIMES:
New BLISTER+ Members (3:44)
Win the FWT, Go Right Back to School (5:23)
Enter as a Rookie, Exit as the Champ (7:16)
Preseason (8:36)
1st Comp: How were You Feeling? (10:34)
When did you first start competing? (14:11)
3rd Comp: Haines (19:20)
Slough Management (24:59)
2nd Comp: Andora / Winning the FIS Championship (28:17)
4th Comp: Verbier & The Bec (32:18)
Being Present while Riding Lines (37:42)
Growing Up in the Jones Household (41:23)
Traveling on the FWT (47:34)
Going to Dartmouth (50:27)
Studying Abroad in Copenhagen (57:14)
Next Season (59:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, |
| 0:08.7 | and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com and on our |
| 0:16.4 | YouTube channels, Blister Review and Blister Studios. |
| 0:27.9 | On our last Blister podcast, our guest was Ben Richards, who had just been crowned the Free Ride World Tour men's ski champion. |
| 0:32.0 | And today, our guest is Mia Jones, who on her very first year of competing on the Free Ride World Tour, was named |
| 0:40.7 | the FWT rookie of the year. She was crowned the FIS Free Ride World Champion, and she then |
| 0:49.4 | went on to become the overall women's snowboard champion of the Free Ride World Tour. |
| 0:56.2 | And in addition to being, obviously, an incredibly impressive big mountain rider, |
| 1:02.4 | Mia is also an incredibly impressive person, |
| 1:07.0 | which is why I really should probably try to talk her into becoming my life coach. |
| 1:12.7 | And I think after listening to this conversation, you will probably agree with that sentiment. |
| 1:19.3 | Okay, now just a couple notes before we get going here. |
| 1:22.2 | First, our Blister Summit, 26. |
| 1:26.1 | We wrapped up an incredible week at Snowbird, and this past Friday over on our |
| 1:32.6 | Gear 30 podcast, I and a number of people on our team provided a bit of a recap there. We talked |
| 1:39.8 | about some of the gear we got on, but it was a good chance to kind of debrief with the team, |
| 1:46.0 | share a bunch of fun stories from the event. And so if you would like to hear more about |
| 1:52.2 | how things went at Snowbird, do check out this past Friday's Gear 30 podcast. Okay, now we've got |
| 1:59.7 | an announcement for an upcoming Blister podcast here. |
| 2:03.8 | We've got another edition coming up of our Blister Book Club. |
| 2:09.1 | And on May 18th, you are going to be able to hear a conversation with me and Mountain |
| 2:17.0 | Gazette owner and editor Mike Rogi about |
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