Name: Willem Collier

Birthday: February 27, 1992

Home Mountains: Park City (likely to change), Alta

Where you ride now: Park City, Alta, backcountry destinations, and concrete waves.

ON3P Quiver: 181 Blue Steele’s and 181 Caylor’s

Whats so great about your mountain?
I don’t think there is anything in the world that beats waking up at 5:30 AM, beating the Little Cottonwood Canyon closure, waiting in the Gold Minors Daughter, and then finally skiing off of one of the first Wildcat chairs of the morning in deep blower Utah pow all while getting cheered on by the loudest most righteous crowd of old Alta geezers you ever could imagine. Long sentence, but I think that sums up why Alta is great.

Favorite photographer/filmer?
I would say Eddie Grams, who films Variety Pack (snowboarding) is probably my favorite filmer for his artsy and raw style. Trevor Woods is my favorite photographer because he is cute .

Favorite thing you enjoy doing on skis?
3 things:
1: Anything and everything to do with skiing deep powder.
2: Lapping a fun jump line when you’re feelin’ it.
3: backflips

If you could spend a week skiing anywhere, where would it be?
This ones a bit far fetched: Gulmarg, India. Epic cultural experience, guns, and (I would assume) a lot of untracked powder on wildly different terrain.

Why do you ski so much?
Because its the easiest way to do a backflip.

A run at PC with On3p’s Willem Collier from Jeffrey Wenzel on Vimeo.