I was stoked when your brother, Josh, came out to ride with us at Mt, Baker, WA. Josh used to do those The North Face Masters freeride events with my brother, Aaron. Aaron has had the biggest influence on my riding. I’m curious how Josh influenced yours? The whole reason I got into snowboarding was because of Josh and my older stepbrother, Alex. Josh and I rode a lot together at Mammoth, and when Josh was about 18, he was doing those North Face Masters. I would have been about 15 or 16. That was the last time we were really riding together tough. Gabe Taylor took us out into the backcountry once, to this sketchy zone called the Headwall of Horseshoe. That was my first time ever riding a real line and I was just trying to keep up with Josh, who was already gnarly at that point. Not long after that he started going to school. He came down to Superpark at [Mt.] Bachelor [OR, 2011] with me. I was riding with my brother again. He hadn’t snowboarded all year, but if I was hitting the jump, he was gonna hit the jump. He did this backside seven Japan and got lost in the air and rag dolled on this park landing so hard that I thought he was dead. He was totally fine and the next try he landed. But we reached a point where he started snowboarding less and I was snowboarding so much. Then he would come up and be like, “You’re my younger bro; I’m gonna do the same thing as you” and he even said that it scared him. And that’s what happened with Quinn [Baumberger] and Josh at Baker for Tenderfoot . Back in 2012 you had a big contest win. What was that event called? The Cholula Triple Air contest at Mountain High [CA]. I went down there with Jimmy Greenleaf, a skier from Mammoth. I won 10 grand in cash. I was tripping. We started driving back up to Mammoth, stopped at the first In-N-Out and bought a ton of cheeseburgers. Even then I knew this was going to be my biggest payday in snowboarding, ever. At one point I had all the money out on my bed, taking photos with it. I bought a $1,000 guitar. I put five grand away for a car and burned through the other five grand. I bought a pound of weed. Before that I always scraped together for weed money, even collecting those rolls of coins for dime sacks. GARRETT WARNICK 045
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