TPM Episode 174: Marcus Caston, Pro Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Marcus Caston's ski career started in the race world. His goal was the Olympics but he didn't get close. When he didn't make the college team, he was over it... But skiing is all he knows. He got back into it through photography, which he parlayed into his first Warren Miller trip and his career takes off. Now, he's on the other side of the lens and he's become one of the most photographed and published skier of modern times. It's a good episode
Marcus Caston Show Notes:
4:00: Quarantine travels and Utah
9:00: Born into skiing, ski-bumming and Snowbird
20:15: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
Evo: Get 20% off branded product with the code Powell20
21:45: Soccer, size and school
26:00: Ski racing, zip lines and not making the team
33:00: Angry at skiing, finding the sport again through photography and Warren Miller
37:00: His big break at Banzai Tour
40:30: 686 Technical Apparel: The best outerwear in the world
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
42:15: Having insider photo knowledge, getting published more than anyone and sponsors
49:00: Not having to do big stuff to get paid, return of the turn and what's next
53:00: 4 knee injuries in a row, throwing in the towel on skiing, and business today
55:50: Inappropriate Questions with Sierra Shafer
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And now, a show with inappropriate language, the Powell Movement. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week I'm starting to get over it. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm starting to see cracks in my and my friends' collective stay-the-f-home policy that we've all been about for weeks. |
| 0:26.6 | This week alone, I walked to two different friends' houses for outdoor social distancing parties, and I felt a lot more relaxed than I have in the past when hanging out. |
| 0:35.6 | So it wasn't too bad, but then my worst |
| 0:38.8 | fear happened. One of my family members was sick and in pain on Saturday night, and it got |
| 0:44.0 | to the level where we had to go to urgent care in downtown Seattle. So I have to go into the |
| 0:48.7 | belly of the fucking beast, but I'm not afraid. I have masks, I have gloves, I have Clorox |
| 0:54.0 | wipes, and I bring these everywhere. I have masks, I have gloves, I have Clorox wipes, and I bring |
| 0:55.0 | these everywhere. The shitty thing about going to the hospital for me and everyone else in my |
| 0:59.8 | part of Seattle, West Seattle, is that when this pandemic started, they found cracks in the bridge |
| 1:05.2 | that takes 125,000 people a day in and out of Seattle. And they've closed the bridge for repairs. The only other |
| 1:12.4 | bridge that'll give you downtown access is reserved for essential personnel, meaning that we had to |
| 1:17.9 | drive 30 minutes instead of 8 to get to urgent care. And what really sucks is that the bridge |
| 1:22.8 | won't be open until 2022, which is insane, but so is everything right now. So we get to urgent care and it's great. |
| 1:30.8 | There's no one there and we do a few tests, get our meds, and are on our way home two and a half |
| 1:34.9 | hours later. Hopefully we don't get the sickness from the doctor and on the way home, Dick's |
| 1:39.9 | burgers, an institution in Seattle was open. Their burgers are really cheap and they taste that way. |
| 1:45.9 | But it's cool to do something normal. Another normal thing I did was I went to the butcher for the |
| 1:50.1 | first time in a long time. I picked up some trytip to throw on my Trager. And speaking of Trigger, |
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