Ski Patroller & Surprise Ski-Movie Star, Adrien Grabinski
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Adrien Grabinski lives to ski, and Mark Abma calls him, “the most responsible 21-year-old I have ever met.” Adrien is the ski patrol director (plus a lot of other things) at Shames Mountain in BC, and he’s a surprise star of Matchstick Productions’ film, The Stomping Grounds.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Tell us about Shames Mountain Ski Area (3:25)
- From ski patroller to caretaker (5:47)
- How did filming with MSP come about? (9:28)
- Heli skiing & filming (12:03)
- Adrien’s background & ski racing (16:07)
- Transitioning from racing to ski touring (25:37)
- Developing a diverse work skillset (28:18)
- The Shames Life (32:03)
- Other places you want to visit & ski? (36:04)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at |
| 0:13.0 | blisterreview.com. |
| 0:16.2 | Our guest today is Adrian Grabinski, who I'm kind of thinking should just become like the spirit |
| 0:23.8 | animal or the patron saint for pretty much every skier out there. |
| 0:28.9 | Now, I first got introduced to Adrian in Matchstick Productions' latest film, The Stomping Grounds, |
| 0:37.3 | and originally Adrian was not really going to be in front of the camera on this film. |
| 0:44.0 | We'll talk about that a bit in this episode. |
| 0:46.6 | But the one thing I know is that I was watching this incredible film with so many |
| 0:51.7 | amazing skiers. |
| 0:53.3 | I found myself thinking, again and again, I need to get |
| 0:57.4 | Adrian on our podcast. And I don't really want to say too much about why I think that, but I will |
| 1:04.8 | give you this. In the stomping grounds, Mark Abma calls Adrian the most responsible 21-year-old he has ever met. |
| 1:14.8 | And then without giving you too many spoilers here, I promise you are going to find out in our |
| 1:19.7 | conversation like why Mark would have said that and again, why I wanted Adrian to be on this |
| 1:26.4 | podcast. And if I did have to sum it up, this guy |
| 1:30.3 | just loves skiing and he loves everything about skiing and running ski areas and fixing |
| 1:37.2 | things. And trust me, Adrian is just somebody you are going to want to know. This episode of the |
| 1:44.1 | Blister podcast is presented by |
| 1:46.0 | avocado makers of the avocado green mattress and bed frames and really just increasingly all |
| 1:54.2 | things that have to do with bedding and even now apparel. Now, as some of you know, I have put up on the site an article called |
| 2:02.8 | Jonathan's Sleep Experiment, and this is something that I'm going to be updating pretty regularly, |
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