“My life is weather dependent so I find out what I’m going to do five days ahead of time.”
A typical day for Kyle Miller might go something like this: wake up early, drink chocolate milk, then hike 20 miles to the top of a craggy peak in the Cascades and ride down 5000 feet of vertical terrain. A typical week? Throw in a little more food, a lot more suffering with many more miles of skinning, lots of duct tape, and as many powder turns as possible. And, he often times going it alone. Living on a shoestring budget and fueled by top ramen, Reece’s pieces and pure heart, 30 year old Kyle Miller has worked his way into becoming the most prolific splitboarder in the Pacific Northwest.
Kyle came to Leavenworth for a slideshow and video presentation hosted by Leavenworth Mountain Association on Tuesday April 11th and we had a chance to talk to him about where he came from (hint: he’s a pure Washingtonian at heart but grew up in the burbs and jumped ship), his most memorable moment snowboarding (a day filled with not only with an epic snowboarding descent but the confrontation of death) and his previous year, including the making of his film Freerider (which basically involved more snowboarding than we ever thought humanly possible).
