Name: Joshua R. Anderson the 1st

Birthday: March 9, 1984

Home Mountain: Crystal Mountain, WA

Where you ride now: Squaw Valley

ON3P Quiver: 181 Wren, 186 Billy Goat, 181 Jeronimo, and the single JBS I didn’t leave buried in AK dammit…

Whats so great about your mountain?
It snows a ton, then the sun comes out and everybody gets super duper rad and skis down and jumps off things for crying out loud. I mean, it’s Squaw Valley!… and I only live 10 minutes away, which is cool.

Favorite photographer/filmer?
Filmer: Jeff Thomas (Theory-3/PBP). Jeffy’s the man… builds mean booters and slings tequila like Wyatt Earp. As far as photographers, a fine-art photographer from the UK/PNW named Michael Kenna (www.michaelkeena.net) is the man. His images are phenomenal… and otherwise… i gotta go ahead and plug www.japhotog.com. Cough cough.

Favorite thing you enjoy doing on skis?
I’d say everything but crashing, but crashing’s not all bad either. Except ski boots… I hate ski boots. Just gotta reach for CR and think about how today is going to be the greatest day ever.

If you could spend a week skiing anywhere, where would it be?
AK, no doubt… Haines, Valdez… wherever, AK is seriously skiing’s land of milk and honey. I do want to ski Russia someday.

Why do you ski so much?
Sorry, I’m not sure I understand the question… laugh. I definitely do not ski enough. Maybe I ski because I see people like Shane or CR out there… RIP… or Seth or Abma or Sage or JP doing what they do and just can’t help myself.

-JA

Crystal Freeride 09 from Josh Anderson on Vimeo.

“Shane Day” shredit from Not Sad on Vimeo.

Josh Anderson 2010 Edit from Not Sad on Vimeo.