TPM Episode 203: Elena Hight, Pro Snowboarder
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Elena Hight has spent most of her career chasing gold, Olympic Gold, X-Games Gold, and US Open Gold, all until recently. Elena is now at a crossroads in her career, she's put contests in the rear-view mirror and is chasing bigger mountains and lines. On the podcast we talk about her movie that documents this journey, Blank Canvas, her contest career and so much more. It's another awesome listen!
Elena Hight Show Notes:
3:00: Blank Canvas, Hana Beaman, Travis Rice, Grizzly Spine and comparing the backcountry to contests
16:00: Growing up in Hawaii. Moving to the mainland, and gymnastics
19:00: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
21:00: Snowboarding, Kelly Clark, and not living a normal life
31:00: The 2006 Olympics, sponsorship, and money
40:00: COAL Headwear Use the code powell15 for 15% off
41:30: 2010 Olympics, documenting her next journey, X Games Gold, and Jeremy Jones
53 :00: Inappropriate Questions with Hana Beaman
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, baby. You're listening to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. I'm your host Mike Powell, and it's another week in Groundhog Day, and I'm sure most of you know exactly what I'm talking about. |
| 0:22.5 | I know I say it every week, but what a crazy world we are living in. |
| 0:26.4 | I mean, my Christmas tree has been up since Halloween. |
| 0:29.3 | We've already done all of our holiday shopping. |
| 0:31.7 | The Christmica card is being sent out this week. |
| 0:34.4 | If you don't get one and think you should be on my list, |
| 0:36.9 | sorry, I probably |
| 0:37.5 | have the wrong address and don't worry about sending me an updated one, though. That would just |
| 0:41.3 | make things awkward. Anyways, we are getting shit checked off the list quickly in my house and |
| 0:46.0 | good thing because it's almost time to go to the mountain. The summit at Snoqualmie opens up |
| 0:50.8 | tomorrow and I'm psyched to get there. It's going to be strange though. |
| 0:55.0 | My family has been so away from people, especially at this time of the year where it gets cold and you can't really do too many outdoor gatherings. |
| 1:02.0 | So heading to a place where a lot of people are coming together to recreate outside is something that we've been looking forward to since last March, |
| 1:09.0 | but it's also something that is going to be totally strange for us, but something that we need for our sanity. |
| 1:14.8 | While I've been fine mental health-wise throughout this pandemic, I'm not sure what would |
| 1:18.9 | happen if I didn't have this escape. But I do for now, and that's all that matters, I guess, |
| 1:23.9 | is right now, because who knows what's going to happen in a month, two months, who knows? Another thing that's not normal in my world is that I'm recording this intro before I |
| 1:32.6 | even record the podcast. The reason? TGR reached out to me recently and they were like, hey, |
| 1:38.0 | Elena Haidt has this movie coming out in December. It's called Blank Canvas. It's going to hit iTunes |
| 1:43.6 | on December 8th. And is there any |
| 1:45.4 | chance you can get Elena on the podcast to promote it? And I was like, sure, no problem. And boom, |
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