Skiing the Monashee Mountains.
Cassandra and Kerry Penney, a young Canadian couple developing Powder Renegades, a snowcat skiing operation in British Columbia, are the picture postcard of what life in the mountains is all about. Cassandra grew up skiing in Ontario, and Kerry snowboarding in New Foundland. They met while working in Fort McMurray, Alberta, an oil field town about 270 miles north of Edmonton, near the Northwest Territories. Most people get divorced there, Cassandra says jokingly. We actually fell in love there. So, it s kind of a nice story. After their days working in the oil fields, Kerry and Cassandra moved back to Ontario, where their baby Claire was born. It didn t take long for the Penneys to realize they wanted to raise a family in the mountain environment of western Canada. They moved to British Columbia, where Kerry found work as a stone mason. One of Kerry s masonry jobs put him deep in the Monashee Mo
Joey Cordeau on Lookout Pass.
Growing up in Biddeford, Maine, Joey Cordeau started skiing when he was in high school. I started so I could get in on the school ski trips, and then I saw this freestyle skiing movie in 1972, the year before I graduated, and I said, I can do that. They were falling everywhere. Yeah, I can do that I want to do that, Cordeau recalls with a laugh as we ride the chairlift at Lookout Pass. Over the next 50 years, Joey would be be heavily involved in the sport of freestyle mogul skiing. He s appeared in over 10 Warren Miller films, his images have been featured in skiing magazines numerous times, and he won the title of World Pro Mogul Champion four times in the 1980s.