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It was a good weekend in San Clemente because The Inertia's Sixth annual Evolve Summit landed at the Surfing Heritage and Cultural Center, also known as SHACC.
Jeremy Jones, the Founder and CEO of Protect Our Winters, has been a professional snowboarder for over 18 years and is widely regarded as one of the best big mountain snowboarders in the world. Ten times voted “Big Mountain Rider of the Year” by Snowboarder Magazine he has starred in over twenty snowboard films worldwide. In 2013, Jeremy was nominated by National Geographic as an “Adventurer Of The Year” and a “Champion Of Change” by President Obama for his work fighting climate change with Protect Our Winters.
Michelle Parker got her start as a ski racer at her home resort of Squaw Valley, California. By age 15, she realised her passion was freeskiing, not racing. She had competed in slopestyle and halfpipe at the U.S. Open and X Games for just a few years when a knee injury sidelined her from competition. While recovering from the injury, she travelled to Haines, Alaska, to take a mountain guide training program. That experience, she says, led her to make the switch from the park to big-mountain terrain, where she truly excelled. Michelle, one of the ski industry’s most versatile female skiers, has appeared in over a dozen ski films and, in 2013, she won Best Female Performance at the Powder Video Awards for her segment in Matchstick Productions’ film, Superheroes of Stoke. “It’s a goal of mine to feel confident and comfortable in big-mountain terrain,” she says. “I’m excited to continue to broaden my athletic ability in skiing and become even more well rounded.”