TPM Episode 154: Chris Benchetler, Pro Skier

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

Sports, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 860 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Chris Benchetler is a pro skier, an artist, a dad, husband, and one of the hardest working athletes out there. Over the past 2 decades, Chris has built an amazing career that has a foundation built on style and flow. On the podcast we talk about skiing, loss, collaborating with the Grateful Dead, and everything in between. It's a must listen episode.

Chris Benchetler Show Notes:

2:00: Mammoth, and feedback for me

9:00: Re-edit starts: Family, early days skiing, and Rory Silva

15:00: Healthy lifestyle, and losing his father

21:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30

Evo: The best online experience in action sports with retail to back it up

23:00: Injured at Parkasaurus, K2, Atomic, and getting sponsors to help with projects

37:00: 2019 starts here: Sponsors and the details behind how he gets money

44:00: Spy Optic: Get 20% off on their site Spyoptic.com using the code TPM20

10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone

The Summit at Snoqualmie

46:30: Having a child, Nimbus, and Skye Walker

61:00: Intro to the Grateful Dead and healing his brain

70:00: Being trusted with the Dead's image, checks and balances, and the crew

76:00: The making and challenges of making "Fire on the Mountain"

88:00: Inappropriate Questions with Tyler Hamlet

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the Powell Movement.
0:03.0	Welcome
0:12.0	To the Powell Movement, I'm your host Mike Powell, and I'm going to ring in the new year with a dude I've known since he was 16 or 17 years old.
0:21.1	And back then, he was an up-and-comer on a K2 team that was stacked.
0:25.3	Chris Ben Chetler is arguably the hardest working man in pro skiing.
0:29.6	Not only is he an athlete, but he's an artist, agent, producer, director, marketer,
0:34.6	pretty much everything but distributor, and I'm sure I'll get into that at some
0:38.3	point. While Chris has been putting together memorable segments over the past 20 years, he's going to
0:43.3	be remembered for his most recent project, the biggest collaboration of his life, working with the
0:48.3	Grateful Dead to produce his visual masterpiece, Fire on the Mountain. So the way this podcast
0:53.4	works is I catch up with Chris for
0:55.4	10 minutes in the beginning, then I drop a re-edited 20-minute conversation that we recorded back
1:00.6	in 2016 that gives you more of Chris's backstory, and then we dive into the past couple of years
1:06.2	and working with the Grateful Dead. Before we get into the podcast, I want to wish you all a happy new year. I also
1:12.3	want to ask you to do a few things for me. The first is subscribe to the podcast and tell a friend
1:17.5	or a stranger to do the same. Next, I want you to follow me on Instagram at the Powell Movement.
1:22.7	And finally, I want you to support my great sponsors who make the show happen. They are Evo,
1:29.1	Stanley, SpyOptic,
1:36.6	the summit at snow Kwame, and the 10-barrel brewery. Now, let's talk to Chris Ben Chetler. Do you get out and shoot today? I did. It was fantastic. How's the mammoth skiing? You guys have a lot of snow?
1:42.0	We do. I haven't been skiing that often. I've been
1:45.9	quite busy, but Thanksgiving, it kind of dumped, and it's been slowly trickling in ever since. So,
1:51.9	it's been pretty sweet. You've been on a world wind tour. You get back, and I would think you'd chill a
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