Daron Rahlves grew up in northern California and currently lives in Truckee, where he regularly skis around Lake Tahoe. His professional ski career started in 1993, and in 2010 he competed in ski cross in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He retired from the U.S. Ski team in 2006 and remains one of the most decorated skiers in U.S. history. Thus far, Rahlves has collected 28 World Cup podiums, three World Championship medals, and a Hahnenkamm Downhill title. In 2011, Rahlves created the Rahlves Banzai Tour, a downhill ski and snowboard race. And skiing trees? Well, they’re kind of like unforgiving gates!

Jennifer Weier has been a long-time ski instructor at resorts in Colorado, and she’s recognized as one of the country’s best by the Professional Ski Instructors of America. Currently, she is a ski instructor at Aspen Snowmass and has been on the PSIA Alpine Team, a group of the best ski instructors in the country who help teach ski instructors how to teach skiing (aka: the best of the best when it comes to ski instructors). Weier is an PSIA examiner in the Rocky Mountain Division and does private clinics for ski instructors. Plus, in the off-season, she works as an emergency room nurse in Minnesota.