Madison Gilson

I love everything about skiing, especially the racing but also powder, touring, and even snowboarding. I love the process of getting better, pushing myself, learning through failures and seeing progress slowly over time. I also love being in the mountains, with the fresh air, surrounded by family and friends, spending long days outside from first to last lifts.

My favourite place to compete and train is in the Dolomites in Italy, especially Pozza. The snow is always perfect, blue skies everyday, and the scenery is beautiful. I also like Pozza because the slopes are challenging and everyday comes with new sets of obstacles and opportunity for me to improve.

Hmm, my training advice would be to take the first two runs as a race and tru and put down your quickest runs in the morning, then do tactical work later in the session. I like this approach because it lowers my DNF rate and makes me commit 100% which mirrors race conditions.