TPM Episode 220: Kent Kreitler, Legendary Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Kent Kreitler is a living legend--He'll be remembered as the skier who helped bring tricks to the backcountry, but he was so much more than that. He was part of an elite crew of skiers that pioneered big mountain skiing in Alaska….the generation that lived fast and took chances. In Part one of his podcast, we talk about moving to Idaho at 10 from Jersey, skiing in South America, winning the US Extreme's, McConkey, Coombs, and much more…..
Kent Kreitler Show Notes:
3:00: The last podcast, Jersey to KC to having Wall Street wired to his Idaho home
10:00: Lane Parish, race team days, parents split up, and the Community School
15:00: Sun Valley history, doing photo shoots in HS, and quitting racing
20:30: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
22:30: Different kinds of pressure, tricks in comps, University of Colorado, and meeting Shane
27:00: First trip to South America, realizing he could be a pro skier, and pissing off Nick Nixon
32:00: Winning the US Extreme's, Jackson with Coombs, dropping out of school and filming with MSP and TGR
41:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports
Elan skis: Making the best ski 75 years
42:30: Movie crews, focusing on 1 movie segment, and hurry up and wait
52:00: Corked 7's on 215's and grabbing his skis wasn't cool and different trips
59:00: Inappropriate Questions with Mike Jaquet
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. |
| 0:02.3 | It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week I'm excited, surprised, whatever, to say that the great print revival is happening, and I'm happy to be featured in my favorite Back from the Dead publication, Bombsnow. |
| 0:31.1 | Todd Heath and the gang are back at Bombsnow, and you can see a little write-up on the Powell movement in the magazine, and you can purchase your copy of this fun little title over at bombsnow.com. |
| 0:42.4 | And I'm not the only one who got a write-up. |
| 0:45.1 | Bombsnow got a little press of their own over on teetongravity.com. |
| 0:49.2 | And while Bombsnow is leading a print revival, TGR has been at the forefront of the digital revolution forever. |
| 0:56.3 | They're the number one source of snow media out there, in my opinion, and the reason they crush it |
| 1:01.0 | is because they've always been about the community first. For them, through their content and their |
| 1:05.8 | forums, they've created a hub that people spend hours at. And now, that hub is about to get a lot bigger. |
| 1:12.6 | The crew at TGR sent me over an entry to their new subscription service, TGR Premium, and I've been using it. |
| 1:19.0 | You get all the TGR movies, big discounts on TGR and the Dead Gear and all the TGR gear, really, |
| 1:25.6 | plus access to proform pricing from a lot of brands. |
| 1:28.8 | This is a $50 subscription that I'll use for the content, but I might even take advantage of |
| 1:33.4 | some of the deals. It's so much better than having to ask for a code. So this one is going to |
| 1:38.2 | pay for itself and I'm psyched. My first use of the platform was watching old segments of my |
| 1:43.9 | legendary guests this week. I'm talking about one of the platform was watching old segments of my legendary guests this week. |
| 1:45.7 | I'm talking about one of the pioneers of big mountain skiing and the first skier to be |
| 1:50.0 | documented grabbing his skis, Kent Kreitler. |
| 1:53.5 | But before we start talking to Kent, I want to ask you to do a few things for me. |
| 1:58.0 | The first is subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to it. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mike Powell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Mike Powell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.