Valerie Festavan

• Age
  20
• Hometown
  Park City, UT
• Current hometown/ mountain
  SLC, UT - Alta + Snowbird <3
• Sego quiver of choice 
  Big Horn 106 for cliffs and butters and the Lupine for backcountry pow 

• Years skiing for Sego?
  2

About

• One thing that fires you up most outside of skiing?
  My life, I am pretty fortunate to live the life that I do, so I’m pretty fired up about that. I’ve got my mama’s cooking to look forward to after a day chasing lines.

• Would you say you “train” for skiing or just have activities that get you in shape in physically and/or mentally compliment your skiing?
  I like working out which includes typical gym time to get #swoll but mountain biking, skating, slack-lining, and cliff jumping all compliment the mentality and physical fitness required to ski hard.

• What you look forward to most going into a ski season?
  I wouldn’t say there’s just one thing I love, I love the whole experience! Skiing with homies, watching the mountains in awe and pondering their creation, sparkly snow, but if I had to pick one it'd probably be stomping tricks I’ve been drooling about doing over the summer.
• This season?
  I’m excited to coach Devo’s up at Snowbird and get the opportunity to influence and inspire a young group of shredders.

• Random fact about yourself?
   I sold educational books door-to-door this last summer working an average of 86 hours a week… in the cranberry capital of the United States. I feel like that’s pretty random.

• Ski with music? Or music that gets you fired up/ want your skiing to feel like?
  I don’t always ski with music… but when I do I’m pretty bipolar and like a mix of chill - make you ski with wavey airplane arms, and crazy rap that makes tourists and locals think I’m a crazy psychopath….