World's Top 20 Snowboarders - No.12 Jeremy Jones
By Tyler Davis
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Our list continues with big mountain powerhouse Jeremy Jones, a true snowboarder's snowboarder.
Welcome to Redbull.com’s World Top 20 Snowboarders. What
follows is a rundown of snowboarding’s best pipers, jibbers, big
mountain slayers and jumpers. It is a contentious list compiled by a
panel of industry no-gooders, who by all accounts should know their
tindies from their tailgrabs.
Jeremy Jones is more than just your average professional snowboarder. He’s a father, environmentalist, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year nominee, company owner and Champion of Change. Jeremy is one of the few that explore the places we all dream about, spending weeks winter camping in Alaska, hiking and shredding new peaks in the Alps and dodging polar bears in far away Svalbard. Jeremy is taking snowboarding to new places and bringing freeriding into the mainstream.
Jeremy Jones is more than just your average professional snowboarder. He’s a father, environmentalist, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year nominee, company owner and Champion of Change. Jeremy is one of the few that explore the places we all dream about, spending weeks winter camping in Alaska, hiking and shredding new peaks in the Alps and dodging polar bears in far away Svalbard. Jeremy is taking snowboarding to new places and bringing freeriding into the mainstream.
Jones has long been one of the best freeriders in the world. There
are very few who can match his skill and control on a snowboard, and
even less who will drop into the type of lines that Jones feels
comfortable on. He grew up on the East Coast, where board control and
learning to turn on any type of terrain is essential just to make it
down the hill. Like many from the right coast, migration west drew Jones
to bigger mountains with better snow and once there he found his place.
There are not many professionals that have the film history of Jones, who’s logged parts in films by Standard, Teton Gravity Research and Brain Farm. His most impressive project started in 2010 with the release of Deeper, the first video in a three-part documentary that follows Jones as he adventures around the globe to places off the map for most snowboarders. The movie was absolutely insane and in 2012 it was followed up with part two in 2012, Further. Both films were game changers as Jones demonstrated that even the harshest environments and mountains have the potential to be ridden.
One characteristic that sets Jones apart is his commitment to the
environment. Let’s face it, climate change is becoming a large issue and
is starting to drastically affect the landscape that us snowboarders
love. Jones realized that something needed to be done to help combat
this issue and out of this ideology Jones started the non-profit
organization Protect Our Winters.
With the support of the winter sport community, Jones and POW have been
working to fight against climate change to keep our winter’s epic.
