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About Ross

Skiing and PSIA is a family affair for Ross Matlock, who is back for his second term on the PSIA Nordic Team. Wife Jill Sickels Matlock was a PSIA Alpine Team member from 2000 to 2004 and they’re raising a couple of little rippers of their own. Ross is convinced that kids can and should learn to telemark at an early age, and has launched a children’s telemark program at Crested Butte Ski School where he currently instructs. He has also helped organize several telemark festivals, including the U.S. Telemark Slopestyle Championships and Tele X festivals in Crested Butte, the Telemark Free Ski Championships, Mountain Adventure Seminars, and Grand Targee Telephoria. Ross has been a ski school director, clinic leader, telemark instructor and backcountry ski guide in his native Australia. His globe-trotting adventures are numerous, ranging from skiing the Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt, a skin track in the backyard of the Ryounkaku Lodge in Hokkaido, Japan, and heli lifts in Valdez, Alaska

Vital Stats

Hometown: Crested Butte, CO

Resort: Crested Butte

Sponsors: Rossignol, Scarpa, Patagonia, Hestra, Rudy, Duofold

Favorite run: The Wall (Valdez, AK)

Favorite travel destination: Japan

Favorite ski destination: Ryounkaku

Ski morning breakfast: I mix it up, basically whatever my kids want, pancakes, eggs, cereal...

Ski day snack: The original power bar... Snickers.

Après style: I go home.

Skis on: Rossi all the way, baby.

Coolest place he's ever been: The town I live in.

Top three off-snow activities:
1) Mountain biking
2) Hiking
3) Tennis

PSIA-AASI makes me... ski.

The best thing about being on the PSIA Nordic Team: I get to learn more.

Snowsports goal: To design and test new concepts and ideas in ski design.