TPM Episode 223: Tim Petrick, Ski Industry Legend
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Tim Petrick has had a pretty epic ski career. From ski instruction, to the PSIA Demo Team, to Powder Magazine, to Aspen, to K2, to Booth Creek, to K2, to Rossignol, to K2, to Silverton…… You get the idea, Tim has done it all and most of it, at the corporate executive level…. But Tim Petrick is not your typical exec, he's a ski bum at heart and this podcast is a testament to how much this dude loves to ski.
Tim Petrick Show Notes:
3:00: Skipping work to ski, growing up in MN and NY, and wanting to be a skier for a living as a kid
10:00: Going to college near Stowe, PSIA Demo Team, and the end of Stowe
17:00: Snowbird, Bear Valley, Aspen, and endurance sports
23:30: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast
Rollerblade: Find out all about the award-winning Skate to Ski program
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
26:00: Powder Magazine, Olin Skis, and round 1 with K2.
27:00: Dealing with a shift in production and laying people off
42:15: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports
Elan skis: Making the best ski 75 years
44:00: The 90's K2 Grateful Dead Collection, The K2 Four, and leaving K2 when they are on fire
54:00: Booth Creek, K2 again, Markovich, leaving for Rossignol, and the S7 days
62:00: Replacing DeRocco and heart attack in the mountains
65:00: Inappropriate Questions with Anonymous
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And now, a show with inappropriate language, the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week my kid is finally back in school. |
| 0:20.5 | That's right, he's finally back |
| 0:22.2 | for two half days a week, and I feel really good for him. And I also feel really good for my wife |
| 0:27.6 | and I, who are both vaccinated and out of our two-week windows. We should be in the clear, |
| 0:32.7 | unless we get one of those Johnson and Johnson blood clots, but I'm hoping that we won't. A person I don't feel great for is Jimbo Morgan. |
| 0:39.3 | From what I hear, he's not doing well right now, and I don't know the details, |
| 0:43.3 | but it sucks for anyone going through some shit, which Jimbo is. |
| 0:47.3 | But on top of feeling bad for Jimbo's condition, I really feel bad about putting out |
| 0:51.3 | what looks to be some bad information in the Kent Kreitler episode. |
| 0:56.1 | I, Kent, and countless others have credited Kent with being the first guy to grab his |
| 1:00.6 | skis and have documentation of it. |
| 1:03.2 | I've believed this for a while now, but while I was on spring break, I was emailed two images. |
| 1:08.7 | They both show a long-haired skier very clearly grabbing his skis. |
| 1:13.0 | One image had the skier on K2KBC comps, and another image had him on the original extremes. |
| 1:19.3 | I email back asking who the skier is, and I should have known. It was a dude I both fear and respect. |
| 1:25.3 | One of the only people I know other than Palmer that was a pro-skier, |
| 1:28.9 | snowboarder and mountain biker, a badass who has long bled for what is cool in skiing, Jimbo Morgan. |
| 1:34.7 | And while I'll ask Kreitler about this, based on the images I'm looking at, sent from someone |
| 1:39.6 | I know who was there and I trust, I believe that Jimbo Morgan was the first person to ever grab his |
| 1:44.7 | skis. And I really need to get Jimbo on the show for some no bullshit history. And I think it's |
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